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Example sentences for "known only"

  • Phenomena are known only as inherent in substance; substance is known only as manifesting its qualities.

  • Substances can be known only in and through their phenomena.

  • It is impossible, however, to investigate universals except through induction, since things which are said to be from abstraction will be known only by induction.

  • Secret denotes that the thing is known only to the party or parties concerned; as, a secret conspiracy.

  • Defn: Pertaining to, or designating, any one of several acids (known only in their salts) which contain more than one atom of chromium.

  • It is known only in meteoric irons, and is usually in imbedded nodular masses of a bronze color.

  • A few others, known only by their names, such as Alessandro Carpi, or Cesare Testa, may be sought for in the work of Cittadella.

  • Filippo Menzani is known only as the attached disciple and faithful copyist of his master.

  • While that secret struggle, known only to God and to myself, was going on, I had often to wipe off the cold perspiration which came on my brow.

  • What would my innocence, known only to God, avail me, when the whole world would believe me guilty?

  • A tapir-like mammal, having canine teeth, known only by fossil remains found in Tertiary rocks.

  • A large marine reptile, known only by fossil vertebræ and other bones, found in oolite rocks.

  • A fish, belonging to Acanthodii, known only by fossil remains in Old Red Sandstone.

  • If these Forms or Objects called absolute are known, they can be known only by an absolute Subject, or the Form of a cognizant Subject: that is, by God or the Gods.

  • Parmenides here argues that if these Forms or Ideas are known by us, they can be known only as relative to us: and that if they be not relative to us, they cannot be known by us at all.

  • It is evident that any such object of mental examination can be known only in, and by, itself.

  • This Supreme Entity can be known only by an intellectual intuition of the Spirit, transcending itself, and emancipating itself from its own limits.

  • He received the sacred cord, and divers amulets or talismans; and was then invested with the sacred Word or Sublime Name, known only to the initiated, the Triliteral A.

  • The Jewish-Greek School of Alexandria is known only by two of its Chiefs, Aristobulus and Philo, both Jews of Alexandria in Egypt.

  • Since they regard consciousness as passive and receptive, they have to maintain that relations can be known only in so far as they are apprehended in a manner analogous to the contents themselves.

  • External appearances, however, as Kant recognises, can be known only in and through representations.

  • For even if we could directly experience things in themselves, and apprehend them as conforming to the categories, such conformity would still be known only as contingent.

  • Since the self is known only as appearance, it cannot be asserted to be the conditioning ground of appearance.

  • As attraction in the planet is known only as a movement admitting of a stated numerical expression, so life in the plant is to be known only as decomposition and recomposition taking place under certain circumstances.

  • They promised to show me lovelier spots than any I had met with yet; sacred corners, known only to themselves, down by the sea, where the arbute and laurustinus grew like trees, and children of the ocean.

  • And oh, I forgot to tell you there was also a kind of fiddle, the secret of which is known only to the Shanar priesthood.

  • By certain mysterious signs, known only to the family Brahman, it had been decided ten years ago that the soul of our host's elder brother had incarnated in this blood-thirsty vampire-bat.

  • Mary's secret died with her, and the remorse that is busy at the heart of Percy, is known only to his Maker.

  • From that moment, if distrust existed any longer in the breasts of the two functionaries of Porto Ferrajo, it was so effectually smothered as to be known only to themselves.

  • Whiton, Gloria Patri, 38--"The Unseen can be known only by the seen which comes forth from it.

  • But matter is known only as the operation of force, and force is the product of Will.

  • The all-generating or Paternal Life which is hidden from us can be known only by the generated or Filial Life in which it reveals itself.

  • But God is a superhuman being; God is known only by himself.

  • That God is the creator, all men could know from Nature; but what this God is in person, can be known only by special grace, is the object of a special faith.

  • The divine assuredly is known only by means of the divine--God is known only by himself.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "known 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:
    becoming dark; deemed necessary; dine here; early opportunity; known also; known fact; known lines; known only; known species; known story; known through; known under the name; known unto; known voice; known weight; known work; military commission; more modern; much comfort; nice time; other day; perfect health; science and useful arts; time like; waiting for; young male