Sentence examples for once a lone from inspiring English sources

Ford is working on hybrid vehicles with Toyota, once a lone wolf but now a keen co-operator.

The main plant, once a lone outpost in a desert outside of Cairo, has been gaining neighbors.

What was once a lone voice crying in the wilderness is now a message, or mini-scandal, echoing across the Internet.

As we make things side-by-side, we provide the space for low-key conversation, for telling jokes (Anna once declared a lone berry, left on the counter, to be the factory boss: "Okay, every berry, I'm going to say who gets made into jam!"), or for letting comfortable silence envelop us.

Some artists, like Colorado producer Pretty Lights, have never once put a lone price tag on their music and have their entire catalogue available for download at the ease of a click.

Once again, a lone male is identified at the top of the hierarchy, followed by a dominant matriline (C16).

Happening upon a ghostly square of trees around a foundation where a house had once been, or a lone Aeromotor windmill with some of its vanes missing was often cause enough to tap the brakes and slow for a look.

Following it, he discovers a cluttered upstairs room, a once majestic grand piano, a lone pianist.

(Korea started out strong when the sport premièred in Seoul, and won once more in Athens; a lone Swede snatched the gold in Barcelona, in 1992).

At a large Yaskawa Electric factory on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, where robots once churned out more robots, a lone robotic worker with steely arms twisted and turned, testing its motors for the day new orders return.

To hear that a lone gunman once again was on a rampage, is something akin to a stone dropping in the stomach.