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Example sentences for "having only"

  • Back to Balaklava direct, my lord, having only to make a call for a minute in the Turkish camp.

  • These creatures will live above a month without any kind of sustenance, having only a little salt water sprinkled over them three or four times a-day.

  • These natives go quite naked, having only a sheep skin on their shoulders, and a small flap of skin before them, which covers them just as much as if it were not there.

  • In this great calamity we lost sixty-eight persons, of whom we are not certain how many may be in captivity, having only knowledge of these eight.

  • But, having only a small number of men, de Weert turned back towards the ships; on which the savages ran across the woods along shore, always hallowing, and making signs for the Dutch to land.

  • Soon afterwards they are locked up in their lodgings, where they lie on the bare boards, having only a piece of wood for a pillow.

  • Our cargo was small, having only 100 quoines of rice, and our cloth was much decayed, having lain two or three years at Macassar.

  • Barnard had served as Chief of the Staff in the Crimea, and had held various staff appointments in England; but he was an utter stranger to India, having only arrived in the country a few weeks before.

  • While tea was being handed round, the Governor (Akram Khan by name) warned me that we should be attacked, and that he could do nothing to prevent it, having only some 200 local militia and no regular troops.

  • They were ordinarily weak, sometimes very small, having only 5-9 stigmas on their central fruit.

  • The central lobe may sometimes bear two small florets, but ordinarily only one is to be found, and this is often incomplete, having only one or two stamens, or is different in some other way.

  • In many cases they are sterile, having only an imperfect ovary.

  • The river-lamprey resembles the above in its general conformation, but is much smaller, and differs in the armature of the mouth, having only a single circular row of teeth.

  • Some Infusoria are without these cilia, having only one or many very slender filaments, the undulating movement of which suffices to determine their progression through the liquid which surrounds them.

  • A man armed with a large knife now extracts the entrails, and it is thrown into a second cauldron, having only a small quantity of water, seasoned with mimosa bark.

  • These men go naked from the waist upwards, and barefooted, having only a cloth wrapped about their thighs.

  • For, in the time of our former want, having only a little water remaining by him in a pot, it was broken in the night and all the water lost.

  • December, they discovered certain shoals, having only six or seven fathoms water.

  • The zamorin was almost naked, having only a piece of white cotton round his waist, wrought with gold.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "having only" 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:
    having caused; having charge; having discovered; having done; having failed; having finished; having first; having given; having gone; having long; having lost; having made; having nothing; having obtained; having only; having previously; having read; having reference; having seen; having succeeded; national literature; piece called; push forward; seven children; silicic acid; will move