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Example sentences for "one but"

  • She'll have no one but you," he went on rapidly.

  • No one but a madman would live and dress as he does; no one but a madman would devote his whole time to the study of the supernatural; no one but a madman would believe in the supernatural as he does.

  • But cocoa you might drink a gallon a day and annoy no one but yourself!

  • Believe me, it's a great comfort to hurt no one but yourself.

  • He could recognize in no one but himself an indubitable right to love her.

  • I ought to see Alexey" (so she called Vronsky in her thoughts); "no one but he can tell me what I ought to do.

  • Several Fishes of Prey pursued me when I was in the Water, and if I betook my self to my Wings, it was ten to one but I had a flock of Birds aiming at me.

  • No one but a fool would have called her "pretty.

  • They've no one but me to look after them.

  • No one but a fool tries to be superhuman," he said.

  • No one but an acrobat or a sailor could have got up to that bell-rope from the bracket, and no one but a sailor could have made the knots with which the cord was fastened to the chair.

  • No one but an anarchist would go about breaking statues.

  • They think that she refers to God; but her meaning is very different, for she is thinking of no one but Cliges.

  • Sire," he says, "of all the men God ever made, no one but us two has ever been where we are now.

  • I am sure it was no one but me who gave him his death-blow.

  • No one but a very foolish fellow would think ME lovely.

  • Yet it was her own doing--whatever chanced to her now she would have no one but herself to blame.

  • But I have no father and no mother--no one but Dad!

  • No one but my husband can judge of that, mama,' said Annie without removing her eyes from his face, 'and he will hear me.

  • Let him behave himself insolently towards the Men, and abjectly towards the Fair One, and it is ten to one but he proves a Favourite of the Boxes.

  • You have only ruined those who belong to you, you have sold no one but yourself; and then you have excuses, physical and moral.

  • The poor lancer killed no one but himself," he added, with a thunderous look at Hulot d'Ervy.

  • She accepted me, sir," returned Uncle Gutton, in a voice that would have awed any one but Minikin.

  • And I loved him because he was big and strong and handsome and kind; no one but a little boy knows how brutal or how kind a big boy can be.

  • No one but a financial genius could have picked a dozen steps through such a network of chicanery.

  • True, after to-morrow I shall be accountable to no one but you,' she said, thoughtfully.

  • She shall see no one but me till to-morrow.

  • He had no one but himself to please in the matter, since he was unmarried and lived alone, and he mitigated the increasing roar and dust of the neighbourhood by long absences abroad.

  • No one but I can arrange her hair --no one but I can prepare her bath.

  • I have shown it to no one but you--also in confidence.

  • There is no one but I who can give you back your little Wonder--no one but I who can give you back anything you have lost.

  • Beatrice had gone to snatch an hour or two's sleep, so she never heard this, and it was no mere cowardly consolation for Antony to think afterwards that no one but he and his little child had known of that fatal afternoon in the wood.

  • I can think of no one but McQuade; no one!

  • Was he always to love no one but Warrington?

  • No one but a rich man could have given a ring like that.

  • But Mrs. Jack had eyes for no one but John.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one but" 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:
    certain characters; desire them; higher vertebrates; know your; little past; one had; one half; one hundred thousand men; one knows; one large octavo volume; one moment; one must; one part; one piece; one single; one time; one was; one way; one which; one will; one years; sensible woman; then would; uncertain date; well spoken; will towards