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Example sentences for "being one"

  • She mounted six guns, and carried above seventy men, being one of the ships that had been fitted out and commissioned purposely to take us; so that she was the second of these armed merchantmen we had taken.

  • Being off the Bay of Guayaquil on the 21st June, we saw a ship, and came up with her next day, being one of the Spanish men of war fitted out to take us, carrying thirty-two guns.

  • This attention, however flattering, being one of an unusual kind, and attracting some notice from the other passengers, Mr Carker took advantage of a clearer thoroughfare and a cleaner road, and broke into a trot.

  • Q: Do you feel a lot of pressure on yourself when you sit down at the typewriter, as being one of the trend-setters in American writing today?

  • I know that he had the reputation of being one of the most particular men in the service as to all petty details.

  • Then some fellow in the street recognized me, I suppose, and denounced me to the rest as being one of the runners.

  • He had heard no word of what the Squire had discovered, nor dreamed that his son was again in England, still less that he was suspected of being one of the men who had endeavored to stop the Squire and his son on their drive from London.

  • I shall at all times feel proud of being one of your publishers, but this must be allowed to arise solely out of your own feelings and convenience when the occasions shall present themselves.

  • As a mere boy he distinguished himself by being one of the first to declare his adhesion to the cause of Mahomet, who some years afterwards gave him his daughter Fatima in marriage.

  • Amboyna Island lies off the south-west of Ceram, on the north side of the Banda Sea, being one of a series of volcanic isles in the inner circle round the sea.

  • The khanate is of importance as being one of the most northern in Afghanistan, on the Russian border.

  • Mr. Semple, being one of the faithful protestors, in the year 1657, was apprehended with the famous Mr. James Guthrie at Edinburgh in Aug.

  • I preferred this to being one of a squad of mounted men to ride along to hunt the Rebel sharpshooters.

  • Henry Ward Beecher's Church, in Brooklyn, as being one of the necessary things to do in New York on a Sunday morning.

  • I told my companions, being one of those who were willing to take the best course we could, that I would travel, God willing, to Masulipatam, where I had learnt at Surat that there was a factory of the Hollanders.

  • Being one evening at a reception given by the Duke of Ratibor, president of the Prussian House of Lords, he said to me: ``I saw you this afternoon in the diplomatic box.

  • The young man turned on her a look that said: 'It's no use calling me a brute; I'm proud of being one.

  • I have often had in my naval career to pass through nights of toil and anxiety, and this gave every promise of being one of that character.

  • The Miss Granvilles were pretty, nice girls, and they had a friend staying with them, who struck me as being one of the most lovely creatures I had ever seen.

  • Any one loving any one is being one in some way loving some one.

  • Any one is being something because any one is being one being a fat one or a thin one or in between.

  • Hobart did not expect anything in being one listening.

  • Mrs. Claudel then was continuing in being one married to Mr. Claudel then.

  • Being a little one is what any one being existing is being one knowing is existing.

  • But if not other by virtue of being one, not by virtue of itself; and if not by virtue of itself, not itself other, and if not itself other, not other than anything.

  • Yet once more, if one be one and many, and neither one nor many, and also participant of time, must there not be a time at which one as being one partakes of being, and a time when one as not being one is deprived of being?

  • Then do you think that the whole idea is one, and yet, being one, is in each one of the many?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being one" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being applied; being asked; being buried; being composed; being desirous; being destitute; being drunk; being eaten; being elected; being expressed; being followed; being informed; being made; being modified; being once; being possessed; being reconciled; being relieved; being saved; being sent; being still; being true; being united; being washed; experimental science; volcanic agency