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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : lohn |
| Phonetic Transcription : loʊn |
Definition of lone
Origin :- late 14c., "having no companion, solitary," shortening of alone (q.v.) by weakening of stress or else by misdivision of what is properly all one. The Lone Star in reference to "Texas" is first recorded 1843, from its flag. Lone wolf in the figurative sense is 1909, American English.
- adj by oneself; only
- No nation can longer be a fortress, lone and strong and safe.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- He's makin' his play with a lone hand, and we've got to meet him the same way.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- A lad that never was out of the town by his lone in his life before!
- Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
- Spake to 'em by their lone silves when you've aught to say to 'em.
- Extract from : « The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys » by Gulielma Zollinger
- Mr. Erskine's songs are all pretty, but his "Lone Vale" is divine.
- Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns
- There, buzzing in the air at the tip of his nose, was a lone mosquito.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- Else why was she there in the solitude of that lone dwelling?
- Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 » by Various
- Blood—blood and torn grass— Had marked the rise of his agony— This lone hunter.
- Extract from : « War is Kind » by Stephen Crane
- I heard them as the cry of a lone bird in the vast silence of eternal snows.
- Extract from : « Out of the North » by Howard V. Sutherland
- David watched him, while Polly indulged in her usual admiration of Lone Star.
- Extract from : « Polly of Lady Gay Cottage » by Emma C. Dowd
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