(superl.) Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell.
(superl.) Alone, or in want of company; forsaken.
(superl.) Not frequented by human beings; as, a lonely wood.
(superl.) Having a feeling of depression or sadness resulting from the consciousness of being alone; lonesome.
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".
Unpopulated
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) As kala-azar patients and dogs infected with visceral leishmaniasis are mostly in the area below 1,600 m sea level and the area above 2,000 m sea level is unpopulated, the natural infection of sandflies was thought, therefore, to come from wild animal hosts and the natural nidus of kala-azar there warrants further investigation.
(2) At least two centuries after the species was hunted to extinction in the UK, three beaver families have been released into three lochs in forest unpopulated by people near the Sound of Jura in Argyll.
(3) Around midnight, I woke to hear this driver declaring that she would try a shortcut down an old, unpopulated country road.
(4) Map: day 5 and 6 We may think of England as an urban country, dominated by people and roads but HS2’s route through the middle – Buckinghamshire, a smidgen of Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire – has been plotted along a largely unpopulated fieldscape.
(5) 1 Make it pay to get cracking This is not all French hyperefficiency: the project is very different – mostly built on relatively flat, relatively unpopulated land alongside an existing motorway, with little tunnelling and no new stations.
(6) Mahmood Asakzai, the governor of Takht-e Pol district, where the helicopter came down, said the crash site, known as Charghai mountain, was remote and unpopulated by insurgents.
(7) Volatile halogenated organic chemicals are found in indoor and outdoor air, often at concentrations substantially above those in remote, unpopulated areas.
(8) Britain has consistently refused to say if, in respect to Diego Garcia, it recognises the UN convention against torture and the international convention on civil and political rights as the atoll is officially unpopulated.
(9) The island was unpopulated and almost completely under ice 20,000 years ago, but as the climate warmed, plants and animals moved across Doggerland, a now submerged land bridge that linked Britain to mainland Europe.
(10) The two have been in dispute over tiny unpopulated islands controlled by Japan but claimed by Beijing and known as the Diaoyu in China and the Senkaku in Japan.
(11) Away from them, the interior is almost entirely unpopulated and hiking will allow you to savour the mysterious atmosphere that inspired John Fowles’ The Magus.
(12) Otherwise, they would have their activities confined to geographically demarcated airfields in relatively unpopulated areas that would be set aside specifically for the purpose.