Sentence examples for loner from inspiring English sources

The word 'loner' is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe a person who prefers to be alone and avoid contact with others. Example sentence: Many people assumed that he was a loner, but he actually just enjoyed his own company.

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loner

noun

One who is alone, lacking or avoiding the company of others.

  • I actually enjoy being a loner.

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I don't think I'm a loner but then loners don't know, do they?" Nighy turns 60 next month ("I'm going to even forget you said that") and jokes he will no longer do plays without gags and avoids Shakespeare because it requires baggy pantaloons.

My sense of being a loner was reinforced in a schoolyard where the unconventional was perceived as just being fucking odd.

Juno star Page plays the plucky Bliss Cavendar, a smalltown loner who signs up for a roller derby against the wishes of her uptight mum (Marcia Gay Harden).

Hitchens's interest, it has been suggested, may have something to do with the character of Trevor, a dark-haired, monobrowed loner suspected of psychiatric issues, whose special talent is for "dealing out extra damage"; whereas Watson observers suggest he could be craving to be in the game too – his Twitter feed is topped by a cartoon self-image, as if as a nudge to GTA VI's creators.

From an affluent atheist background, Bilardi was an isolated loner.

Marr won't cease to be a loner or a struggler.

He was a loner who learnt to be popular; a backroom operator who taught himself how to campaign; an ex-diplomat who had to master Australian speech in his 30s.

But which industries would open their arms to a seasoned loner such as him?

This was a significant clue to his personality, a self-described loner whose claustrophobia extended to refusing to use the London Underground.

"I don't think of myself as a loner.

On the field he was the perfect team player; off it he was a loner with few friends.

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