Synonym: alone, lone(a), lonely(a), lonesome(a), only(a), sole(a), solitary, solitary(a). Similar words: long, alone, long., loner, salon, nylon, call on, colon. Meaning: [ləʊn] adj. 1. lacking companions or companionship 2. characterized by or preferring solitude 3. being the only one; single and isolated from others.
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91. Two members lived in local authority homes and 15 in households characterised by unemployment and chronically sick and/or lone parents.
92. But that lone bad habit burns through your writing like a blowtorch, outshining all the others.
93. At five a lone bugle woke his companions from their drowsy slumber.
94. Fortunately a lone plane touched down, and took him off.
95. But even proponents of the lone gunman theory acknowledge the wealth of interests served by Kabila's removal.
96. Three lone boys finally started up his walk in a sullen clump[sentencedict .com], and the rest followed in a bigger clump.
97. Out of the stillness, a lone bird began to sing.
98. From far off where the Zoo lay the howl of a lone wolf wound up into the night.
99. A lone electric lightbulb dangled from the ceiling in the middle of the room.
100. The gap between the incomes of two-carer families and lone mothers with children has widened.
101. The Lone fire is being fought with a lot more than just water.
102. A To help alleviate the personal security fears of lone lady drivers, and allow drivers to make business calls whilst enroute.
103. The economy booms like cannon, far out at sea on a lone ship.
104. First I checked the lone pines, by orienting them with respect to the sun.
105. Consumer durables Lone parent families are less likely than two parent families to have household consumer durables.
106. A lone bicycle had been left leaning into the bushes.
107. Philpott understood the gesture and browsed through the antiques until the lone customer had left the shop.
108. It should not be imagined, however(sentencedict.com), that Storni was a lone trailblazer in a male-dominated world of poetry.
109. Assuming the dossier is genuine, is he a lone whistle-blower or is he a messenger?
110. Kabila was shot on Tuesday last week, allegedly by a lone bodyguard in what may have been a coup attempt.
111. Another drunken former farmhand draped himself across the counter of the farm's lone grocery store.
112. Lone parents have much smaller proportions of household heads in the labour market than two parent families.
113. His sweatshirt hood, steeply pitched overhead: a lone monk kneeling at prayer at a partially disinterred altar.
114. One Parent Benefit is paid to 75% of lone parents.
115. Families headed by lone parents have fewer children than two parent families, with an average 1.6 dependent children compared with 1.8.
116. Most lone parents - both men and women - have been married and are separated or divorced from their former partners.
117. Instead, we wander down to the conservatory, where a lone table is laid, its pink candles flickering.
118. The proportion of all families headed by a lone parent has increased from 8 percent in 1971 to 16 percent in 1988.
119. In the foreground stood a lone, empty railway freight car.
120. It can be seen that the lone elderly had the lowest median income levels and also the most restricted range of income.