(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".
Widowhood
Definition:
(n.) The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower.
(n.) Estate settled on a widow.
Example Sentences:
(1) A model is developed to use marital history data from the U.S. Current Population Survey and mortality statistics from the federal registration system to estimate color differences in (a) the risk of widowhood among women in the working ages and (by the cumulative duration of widowhood.
(2) These results are discussed in light of changing patterns of divorce and widowhood in later life.
(3) This study seeks to clarify the effect of widowhood on ego identity and psychological functioning.
(4) This paper investigated the relationships of widowhood, sex, and labor force participation with the use of ambulatory physician services by elderly adults.
(5) Age and education, along with community integration, were better predictors of the variables studied than was widowhood.
(6) Mortality from suicides was greater than expected during the first years of widowhood.
(7) Implications for remarriage as a coping mechanism for widowhood and the relation of age to remarriage decisions are discussed.
(8) Self-reported marital separation or divorce and physical disability affecting employment were strongly associated with high depression scores, whereas the normative stresses of aging (widowhood, retirement, social isolation) were not.
(9) This study focused on the use and reporting of sampling procedures found in research on widowhood.
(10) For some women, widowhood brings the freedom to rediscover their identities, establish independent goals, and take on new challenges.
(11) The findings suggest that lower morale scores found among the widowed may be partly attributable to other factors commonly associated with this status and not due to the role of widowhood per se.
(12) Widowhood for women may be complicated by a lack of financial experience or knowledge, further diminishing well-being.
(13) One of the neglected areas in the study of the social structure of the family is that of widowhood, the last stage in the family life cycle.
(14) It was unusual for the hallucinations to have been disclosed, even to close friends or relatives.These hallucinations are considered to be normal and helpful accompaniments of widowhood.
(15) However, periods of singlehood, widowhood, and nuclear family life are perceived as extremely likely, particularly among female adolescents.
(16) Despite the presence of psychological distress in a significant minority, most bereaved individuals report good health, satisfactory work performance and good adjustment to widowhood.
(17) Overall, age and time since widowhood have the strongest and most consistent effects on remarriage rates for different widowed groups.
(18) Taken together, these results suggest that what appears on the surface to be a gender difference in vulnerability to the same life event turns out upon closer examination to occur because widowhood does not affect men and women in the same way.
(19) Analysis of reports of orphanhood and widowhood suggests moderately high levels of mortality.
(20) Ways of coping with problems during the first months of widowhood had significant long-term effects upon the widow's health.