Example sentences for: lone

How can you use “lone” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "The Boogie Nights of the fake-boob industry" (Bruce Fretts, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics admire the show's witty satire of sleazy doctors, as well as the performances by David Schwimmer ( Friends ) and Chris Cooper ( Lone Star ). New York 's John Leonard gripes that Breast Men simply exploits cable TV's independence to show gratuitous flesh: "In an exuberance meant to be Rabelaisian, it crosses the line from peep show into pornography."

  • Even his lone May triumph, the planned purchase of the Los Angeles Dodgers for $350 million, has been dismissed as an expensive folly.

  • The New Yorker 's Adam Gopnik is the lone American enthusiast: "Part of the fun, of course, lies in the hair-raising displays of Victorian energy.

  • And the lone Democrat, pollster Stanley Greenberg, says that center-left politicians are winning because voters think conservatives are extremist kooks.

  • In “From Hero to Celebrity,” Daniel Boorstin points out that soon after Charles Lindbergh acquired a reputation as a pro-Nazi and accepted a decoration from Hitler, the Lindbergh Beacon atop a Chicago skyscraper was renamed the Palmolive Beacon , and high in the Colorado Rockies Lindbergh Peak was given the more obscure name of Lone Eagle Peak .


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