How to Use single-minded in a Sentence

single-minded

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  • Lou was very smart and single-minded in not socializing with us.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Swift’s Poets has been at the top since its April 19 release, and Swifties have a single-minded goal of keeping it up there as long as possible.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 1 June 2024
  • Jones shares how such a single-minded pursuit can consume one’s life, while the film falls in a cycle of repetitive actions.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Katz is among the least fickle of artists, and the overall impression at the Guggenheim was one of single-minded, stubborn idealism.
    — David Salle, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
  • These early peeks into the Fire Nation add depth to Zuko’s fractured family and his single-minded quest to come home.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2024
  • In his mind, that single-minded ambition was what landed him in Myanmar.
    — Isabelle Qian, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Guggeis followed those interests to the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, but not with single-minded focus.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 27 May 2023
  • For a long time, Novo Nordisk was almost single-minded in its focus on tackling diabetes.
    — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • His single-minded focus on the war, and on batting aside international criticism of the way it’s being waged, has so far kept most Israelis on board.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2024
  • Archie’s walking style is to square his shoulders, pull the leash taut, then power forward with a single-minded determination.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
  • Auden comes to think of our sinfulness as but part of the human story, and to see that a single-minded focus on it can diminish or even occlude gratitude.
    — Alan Jacobs, Harper's Magazine, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Still, Collet told me that a single-minded focus on drugs is something that only people of privilege can afford.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • The dream nurtured by the women of the Houghton Mifflin Five a decade earlier, of receiving better wages for creative work, had been reduced to the single-minded pursuit of money and power for its own sake.
    — Jess Bergman, The New Republic, 20 Feb. 2023
  • But this piece is directed at the folks who have mastered the basics and are ready to level up — not a total dedication to single-minded, no life outside of plants kind of existence.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 21 June 2024
  • That type of single-minded purpose is a rarity, more so when an idea comes to fruition in an actual physical product that reflects the mood of a generation.
    — Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 27 May 2023
  • Those results should be somewhat expected, though, as Carter's military duties left him unable to bulk up or train with a single-minded focus.
    — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2023
  • His single-minded pursuit of his art and his callous self-indulgence lead one of them to madness, another to self-mutilation and an early demise.
    — Alida Becker, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Where Bruce’s Batman is somber, single-minded, and driven, Dick’s Robin is ebullient, freewheeling, and eager for adventure.
    — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Edelstein has condensed the three plays into two and is focusing on the characters’ quest to achieve power at any cost, and how that single-minded purpose can lead to chaos, violence and anarchy.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • In a profession with its share of single-minded swaggerers, Koudelka was on another level.
    — Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The candidate must be dedicated to a single-minded goal: Make life slightly less Dickensian for us in every way possible.
    — Jessica Geltstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • By the next fall at Stanford, Watson would begin to enter the final phase of making golf a single-minded priority — and punctuating it with a commitment to affirm it.
    — Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2024
  • His single-minded devotion to his people’s cause awed followers and stunned relatives.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2023
  • The film will also follow his personal journey and explore the psychology of a man who has sacrificed everything in his single-minded quest to connect with and understand the biggest creatures in the ocean.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 20 June 2023
  • Herzog, known for his enigmatic films and single-minded commitment to achieving the impossible (pulling a boat over a mountain, for one) found a worthy artistic partner in Klaus Kinski.
    — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 16 July 2024
  • There’s something unprecedentedly freaky and single-minded about that.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
  • His single-minded focus on Black issues and refusal to compromise made some people uncomfortable.
    — Sandy Banks, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
  • Despite the intense effort, which would leave most people gasping and single-minded, Siegrist had the aerobic and mental capacity to carry on a normal conversation.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
  • In their single-minded focus on raising birth rates, its leading proponents misunderstand the nature of the problem and offer solutions that may be counterproductive to their aims.
    — Patrick T. Brown, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Parallel to this single-minded focus on competitiveness was the clear emphasis the sessions gave to military matters.
    — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023

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