(a.) Being without a companion; being by one's self; also, sad from lack of companionship; lonely; as, a lone traveler or watcher.
(a.) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
(a.) Being apart from other things of the kind; being by itself; also, apart from human dwellings and resort; as, a lone house.
(a.) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
Example Sentences:
(1) For his lone, perilous journey that defied the US occupation authorities, Burchett was pilloried, not least by his embedded colleagues.
(2) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
(3) "It's a very open question as to whether this will come," said a diplomat in Brussels, adding that Cameron could find himself in the lonely position of being the sole national leader urging a renegotiation.
(4) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
(5) Committing to ploughing a lone furrow without international agreement will damage our economy for little or no environmental benefit.
(6) McVeigh may have thought of himself as a lone wolf, but he was not one.
(7) Striking a completely different note, Kelly Smith, a Texan who lives in Sedgefield, draped herself in the US flag and made a lone stand in support of her president.
(8) The opiates undergo binding to their amine-binding sites via the lone electron pair on nitrogen.
(9) Peter Travers, film critic at Rolling Stone, offered a simpler explanation: "Why is The Lone Ranger such a huge flop at the box office?"
(10) Unsurprisingly, one of the three lonely references at the end of O'Reilly's essay is to a 2012 speech entitled " Regulation: Looking Backward, Looking Forward" by Cass Sunstein , the prominent American legal scholar who is the chief theorist of the nudging state.
(11) In a sneak preview of the findings, Howard Reed of Landman Economics, who was commissioned to do the work, told a meeting this week that "most of the gain" from raising the income tax allowance goes to "families who aren't very poor in the first place", and instead increasing tax credits for working low-income families was the "best targeted way of encouraging work among lone parents and workless couples".
(12) Vauxhall Tower Like a cigarette stubbed out by the Thames, the Vauxhall's lonely stump looks cast adrift, a piece of Pudong that's lost its way.
(13) The South Korean sat on Fifa’s executive committee for 17 years until 2011 but claims he was a lone voice of criticism against Blatter for much of that time.
(14) At the time, it was a lone moment of respite for the Americans in what had become an unrelenting assault.
(15) Photograph: Fabio De Paola Thomas Howarth: student, Derby "There's this perception that you've got to be furiously depressed and lonely to listen to the Smiths," says Thomas Howarth, 18, from Derby.
(16) Patients with chronic lone atrial fibrillation (LAF) were treated with quinidine according to a special schedule to establish sinus rhythm and prevent recurrences.
(17) T he image of the lone wolf who splits from the pack has been a staple of popular culture since the 19th century, cropping up in stories about empire and exploration from British India to the wild west.
(18) I wasn't prepared for Madiba (his clan name) coming into my life, but now we make sure we spend time with each other because we were so lonely before.
(19) She refers to the Greens’ Caroline Lucas as a more recent example of a lone MP seen to be making a difference.
(20) According to the ONS, "comparing lone parents and couple households, the latter have a much lower chance of being a workless household".
Lyne
Definition:
(n.) Linen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two other men – Ryan Hadfield, 29, from Ashton-under-Lyne, and Matthew James, 33, from Clayton – were found not guilty of the same murder.
(2) Many of the highest concentrations of pension recipients are in National party seats, such as Page, Hinkler, Lyne, Cowper and Gippsland.
(3) We do not aim to abolish faith schools, but no school run by a religious organisation should be state-funded Holly Lyne, West Yorkshire We endeavour to support all children in their educational journey, and that extends to supporting parents who home educate.
(4) UC is due to start on 29 April with pilot projects in Ashton-under-Lyne, Oldham, Warrington and Wigan.
(5) In 2010, soon after the company launched, Lyne became worried the brand would be lost in a sea of cupcakes – and saw the free-from category as a way to differentiate it from the competition.
(6) Universal credit went live on 29 April with just one jobcentre – Ashton under Lyne – accepting clams for universal credit and three other jobcentres, Wigan, Warrington and Oldham, testing the system before taking claims for universal credit in July.
(7) Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian Tracey Richardson-Lyne, 36, (pictured above) found herself the victim of the postcode lottery of IVF funding after marrying husband Chris.
(8) Psychiatric nurse Vicky Atkinson, 37, from Ashton-under-Lyne, says: "The amount of homeless people, the inequality, shows that there is an issue.
(9) But where Lyne was apparently dazzled by the sexual imagery of music videos (Flashdance, 9½ Weeks, Fatal Attraction), Scott was more interested in their pacing and glitz.
(10) Apart from Gilbert, there was Sir Lawrence Freedman , a military historian; Sir Roderic Lyne , a former ambassador to Russia, who a few years earlier used to go running with Campbell; and Baroness Usha Prashar , an experienced social reformer with an expertise in the problems of Britain rather than Iraq.
(11) Carneal wasn't the first: Jeffrey Lyne Cox held a class of students hostage at gunpoint in 1988, inspired by the novel ; Dustin L Pierce did the same in 1989, down to the detail of imprisoning his algebra class ; in 1996, Barry Loukaitis killed his algebra teacher and two others , before holding the rest of the class to ransom.
(12) At the time of Simon's birth in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, his father was awaiting demobilisation, and the shape of his early years was dictated by Richard's academic employment, first in Hull, which took Simon to Hymer's College, then at Leicester, where he went to Wyggeston grammar school and developed a lasting affection for Leicester City FC.
(13) Of the 11 different camera products Lyne tested personally, three contained the much-publicised Heartbleed vulnerability , while four didn’t use any encryption at all, meaning a hacker could easily intercept data being sent to and from the cameras, including usernames and passwords.
(14) Richardson-Lyne has been trying to have a child for 10 years but has suffered three ectopic pregnancies.
(15) David Jolley Willow Wood Hospice, Ashton under Lyne • Two of your contributors talk about difficulties in accessing painkillers at the end of life.
(16) London jazz festival The singer, composer and bassist Esperanza Spalding has broken out of the jazz loop with more pop-oriented music, but she comes to the 2013 LJF as a virtuoso double bassist, part of a trio with the pianist Geri Allen and drummer Terri Lyne Carrington.
(17) In 1970 they reached No 12 with the rollicking single Down the Dustpipe, but the ensuing albums Ma Kelly’s Greasy Spoon (1970) and Dog of Two Head (1971), their first without Lynes, were unsuccessful.
(18) * Not her real name Stepchildren cost my my own baby Tracey Richardson-Lyne in Leicester.
(19) The new lineup – Parfitt and Rossi plus the drummer John Coghlan, bassist Alan Lancaster and keyboard player Roy Lynes – immediately felt their luck changing as their single Pictures of Matchstick Men (1968), written by Rossi, reached No 7 in the UK and the Top 40 in the US.
(20) "It's completely unfair and I feel very angry about it," says Richardson-Lyne, an accounts clerk in the city.