How to Use singleton in a Sentence

singleton

noun
Definition of singletonnext
  • If South had the singleton ace or A-x, Cy’s play was moot.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 12 July 2024
  • West led the singleton queen of hearts, and when East took the ace, Wang saw what was coming.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 17 June 2024
  • At the end of each episode, the singleton will pick a person to go on a second date.
    — Bianca Rodriguez, Marie Claire, 12 June 2020
  • Our singleton is so good with people of all ages and all walks of life.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The first episode sets up the premise for this sextet of singletons and their co-dependency.
    — Whitney Friedlander, CNN, 16 Aug. 2019
  • If West had a singleton club, East could capture dummy’s jack and return a club, but the slam would be safe.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2019
  • The very old, migrants, the sick or disabled, and singletons are most at risk of feeling lonely.
    — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Since West’s king of hearts is surely a singleton, East must overtake it and continue with the jack.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 23 July 2019
  • Our group was half older couples and half younger couples with a few singletons mixed in.
    — Marian Bull, Bon Appetit, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Our group was half older couples and half younger couples with a few singletons mixed in.
    — Marian Bull, Bon Appetit, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Since West’s ace of hearts was almost surely a singleton, Cy must not let East get in before trumps are drawn.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2024
  • West, the Dormouse, led his singleton diamond, and the Hatter, East, took his ace.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 9 July 2019
  • West led the deuce of clubs, which looked, waddled and quacked like a singleton; still, declarer took the queen, drew trumps and led another club.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Against that reasonable contract, West led his singleton club, and East won and returned a club for down one, no swing.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The story follows a thirtysomething, fed-up singleton with a dreary job in a dead-end town.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 4 Sep. 2021
  • The spinster was replaced by the cocktail/wine-swigging singleton.
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 1 May 2020
  • Naturally, this makes the singletons -- who have spent their time up to this point prancing around in string bikinis (the gals) and showing off their six-pack torsos (the guys) -– gasp and gripe.
    — oregonlive, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The show from Nest Productions sees 10 singletons search for love while completely naked.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 25 July 2024
  • Where couples are cuddled up and singletons see their requisite froyo as a cup of lonely.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 6 Feb. 2018
  • While your hCG levels with twins may be higher than normal, the normal range for a singleton overlaps with normal ranges for twins.
    — Rachel Gurevich, Parents, 30 July 2024
  • Rent the Backyard builds cottage-style studio apartments in empty backyards and then rents them out to singletons.
    — Wired, 3 Oct. 2019
  • That singleton facing heat to settle down on the occasion of turning 35?
    — Naveen Kumar, Variety, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Then against four hearts, West led his singleton diamond: king, eight, seven.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • But the variable domains of the camelid’s heavy-chain-only antibodies are singletons.
    — Christina Szalinski, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Like with the Halo for singletons, the top can rotate toward an adult bed and the sides bend down so a parent can more easily get a baby out for feeding or soothing.
    — Good Housekeeping, 15 Feb. 2023
  • There’s no widespread asymmetrical power structure with singletons at the top and twins at the bottom.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Jennifer Coolidge, who played a tragi-comic singleton, picked up the award for best supporting actress.
    — WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
  • On average, adult twins seem to be healthier and more content than singletons.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Even when all goes according to plan, twins are usually born a few weeks earlier than singletons.
    — Amanda MacMillan, Health.com, 21 June 2017
  • To recap, this is a movie about an insecure singleton named Renee Bennett (Schumer), who hits her head in spin class and wakes up feeling like a new woman: a hot woman.
    — K. Austin Collins, HWD, 23 Apr. 2018

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