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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121. Lone parents can earn up to £15 a week before their income support is reduced.
122. At one spot along the road, a lone flower escaped the flames that poured through the Three Bar Wildlife Area.
123. What role does labour force participation play in keeping lone parents out of poverty?
124. Observed by a lone seal we headed west, the wind now beginning to pick up.
125. Bailey emphasized that officials do not want to rupture any of the 236 uranium fuel rods in the lone remaining assembly.
126. Police documents also describe him as the suspect in the slaying of the lone eyewitness to one of those killings.
127. This was the time when the lone and often despairing voice of dissent was heard from the terraces.
128. Riker flew to the lone hill covered with tall brown grass and a few small trees.
129. She hesitated and then sat down at the far end of one where a lone man was wholly immersed in a newspaper.
130. A lone fisherman sorts through his gear as we approach.
131. It is quite possible to keep a lone specimen but to see them at their best a group is preferable.
132. The lone cyclist,[www.Sentencedict.com] the donkey rider heading for a distant horizon: wherever they are going the eye can not follow.
133. The bulk of this increase comes from families headed by a lone woman and, most often, a divorced woman.
134. It opened with a lone commuter waiting for a train late at night.
135. We can treat lone parents as poor people, needing means-tested social assistance of some sort - as we do now.
136. In these circumstances it is hardly surprising that many lone women parents do not work.
137. Two thirds of lone parent families depend mainly on social security benefits, compared with one in eight two parent families.
138. The proportion headed by a lone father, at 2%, has remained virtually unchanged in the last two decades.
139. Expressionless, their ill-fitting jackboots thumping up and down as they marched, the soldiers approached the lone kilted figure.
140. The most vulnerable were full-time students over 19; students from lower social classes; lone parents and couples with children.
141. Apparently, the murder of the lone black, Penn, was unworthy of note.
142. Suddenly, as if on cue, a lone figure appears on a horse.
143. Lone parents themselves are likely to be over 25 years of age - on average less than 10 percent were younger.
144. But nothing we could do would reverse fundamental social trends which were producing more and more lone parents.
145. Last week Kaczynski was arrested in his remote Montana cabin on a lone charge of possessing materials to make a bomb.
146. One was a stabbing spree in which 12 cabdrivers got knifed in one week by a lone assailant.
147. He suffered from post-traumatic stress because of a lone confrontation with eight youths two years earlier.
148. Across the rooftops, a lone cop prowler was the only thing moving on the cold expanse of the Grand Canal.
149. A lone cat was padding almost invisibly along in the lee of a low wall.
150. I disagree and think that a lone driver should never give lifts to strangers.