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Example sentences for "for one"

  • It was not long before I began to get wind of the causes that so much depressed him.

  • Those that know him best," said I, "are persuaded that he should be humoured.

  • This he said firmly, with no signal of the former violence, which already raised my hopes.

  • The old talks with my lord for the most part pretermitted; a certain deprecation visible towards her husband, to whom I thought she addressed herself more often; and, for one thing, she was now greatly wrapped up in Miss Katharine.

  • But, for one thing, he had the less use for my society.

  • But, for one thing, the deceit was practised by a master hand, and might have gulled an angel.

  • This is midsummer madness," cried I; "and I for one will be no party to it.

  • Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

  • I beg your pardon, it was so small, I naturally mistook it for one of the flyaway things you sometimes wear.

  • Then she drew her hand over her eyes, for one of her boyish habits was never to know where her handkerchief was, and had just managed to call up a smile when there came a knock at the porch door.

  • Meg, who tried to look as if she had not heard and been rather shocked at Mrs. Moffat's fibs.

  • Next week you can go with Beth and Hannah, and have a nice time.

  • And so they fought with him on foot more than three hours, both before him and behind him; and Sir Mordred gave him his death wound behind him at his back, and all to-hew him: for one of his squires told me that saw it.

  • That is great folly, said Epinogris, for to love Queen Isoud, for one of the best knights of the world loveth her, that is Sir Tristram de Liones.

  • Her husband had gone off, after luncheon, for one of his long tramps on the downs.

  • For one time a woman like you is going to hear de trut' about what you are, and no fine city words to it, needer.

  • Terry Gould is a good deal of a tin-horn sport, but he knows a lot about medicine, and don't you forget it for one second!

  • For one thing, he's got to learn a little discipline.

  • She wrote to him once a week--for one month.

  • Mrs. Jenson was sure that she, for one, would love to be like Portia.

  • Fortunately, my brother James was at home on this occasion, and as the evening grew old and the Indians, grouped together around the fire, became more and more irresponsible, he devised a plan for our safety.

  • Henry Blackwell was associated with her, and together they developed in me a vital interest in the suffrage cause, which grew steadily from that time until it became the dominating influence in my life.

  • For it appeared that, notwithstanding the enthusiasm and the spiritual uplift of the week, the collections had been very disappointing and the expenses unusually heavy.

  • If I starved and froze it was His test of my worthiness for the ministry, and if He had really chosen me for one of His servants, He would see me through.

  • It is hard to see fine things, such as shawls, gold watches, and chains in the shops, behind the big glasses, and to know that they are not intended for one.

  • The name Murat is Arabic, and is the same as Murad (Le Desire, or the wished-for one).

  • She would have known as much without previous information if she had waited a moment, for one of the brothers proceeded to say: "Ah!

  • She was, for one thing, physically and mentally suited among these new surroundings.

  • If it comes to the worst we can sleep there too, for one night," she said.

  • For one question my mistress asked the doctor about the lady's chances of getting round, he asked a good fifty at least.

  • If you want to badger me with any more of your infernal scruples," he said, "I for one won't hear them.

  • It is plain, for one thing, that Sancho Panza did not enter into the original scheme, for had Cervantes thought of him he certainly would not have omitted him in his hero's outfit, which he obviously meant to be complete.

  • For one who is in hell," said Sancho, "nulla est retentio, as I have heard say.

  • He will perhaps therewith beget a male, and so depart the more contentedly out of this life, that he shall have left behind him one for one.

  • It is probably too rich, and would make corn run entirely to straw, for one species of grass was observed twelve feet high, with a stem as thick as a man's thumb.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for 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:
    each word; for life; for the reason that; for the same purpose; for the year ending; for though; forced landing; forced march; forcible resistance; foreign competition; foreign court; forget that; forgive them; form column; formed like; former ages; former lecture; formerly related; formerly supposed; formic acid; forms part; forth from; forty hours; forty rods; forty yards; international markets