How to Use single-minded in a Sentence

single-minded

adjective
  • In the kitchen, Ono is soft-spoken and single-minded.
    — Stephanie Bai, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2026
  • This version is more single-minded.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Admirable to be so single-minded.
    — Rosanna Warren, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Lou was very smart and single-minded in not socializing with us.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The more the movie goes on, the more Alma seems a monster of single-minded drive.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
  • But will his single-minded dedication to vengeance corrupt his own soul?
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
  • And who better than the single-minded Big Tech execs.
    — Alexandra Ebert, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Such crimes are usually driven by a very real agenda or single-minded goal.
    — Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 13 Dec. 2025
  • All of which serves, two decades on, as a reminder that for all their single-minded brazenness, the Glazers did not act alone.
    — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 12 May 2025
  • In his mind, that single-minded ambition was what landed him in Myanmar.
    — Isabelle Qian, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
  • And every touchpoint should reinforce the same single-minded idea.
    — Cindy MacHles, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Connor Movalli, in contrast, was far more single-minded.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Jones shares how such a single-minded pursuit can consume one’s life, while the film falls in a cycle of repetitive actions.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
  • But his obituaries were single-minded about his achievements.
    — Chris Nashawaty, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Our guide to the Best Toasters zeroes in on classic, single-minded bread browners.
    — Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 26 Feb. 2025
  • This single-minded pursuit of joyful self-expression mirrors the way she's approached her career.
    — Madeline Hirsch, InStyle, 20 Feb. 2026
  • That’s quite a single-minded focus on fictional law enforcement stories.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Archie’s walking style is to square his shoulders, pull the leash taut, then power forward with a single-minded determination.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
  • His single-minded devotion to his people’s cause awed followers and stunned relatives.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2023
  • For a long time, Novo Nordisk was almost single-minded in its focus on tackling diabetes.
    — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Quiet and reflective off the field, Cody transforms into a single-minded player between the lines.
    — Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
  • In part, Gates regrets his single-minded focus, which kept him — and his employees — from enjoying a sense of work-life balance.
    — Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Still, Collet told me that a single-minded focus on drugs is something that only people of privilege can afford.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • In the end, Ray does choose love, sacrificing himself and abandoning his single-minded pursuit of justice so that his friend can live.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Katz is among the least fickle of artists, and the overall impression at the Guggenheim was one of single-minded, stubborn idealism.
    — David Salle, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Such single-minded cruise lines may also offer more solo staterooms and reduced or waived single-supplement charges on select voyages.
    — Janice Wald Henderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2026
  • Auden comes to think of our sinfulness as but part of the human story, and to see that a single-minded focus on it can diminish or even occlude gratitude.
    — Alan Jacobs, Harper's Magazine, 13 Apr. 2022
  • These early peeks into the Fire Nation add depth to Zuko’s fractured family and his single-minded quest to come home.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2024
  • In a profession with its share of single-minded swaggerers, Koudelka was on another level.
    — Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
  • While the purpose of networking is to experience growth and support for that, approaching it with a single-minded intention is not the right way.
    — Sanjay Sehgal, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025

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