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Example sentences for "one day"

  • One day when we came out of an estuary the sea was so rough that the captain decided to turn back.

  • One day when I was off duty I was taken by a friend to a signals unit where there were many pieces of equipment which had been 'liberated', and I was able to buy a BC 342 receiver.

  • One day he told us that he had attended a Joint Services Committee which had been set up to study the requirements for building a broadcasting station in Athens.

  • Now that his two sons perished in one day, Brother by brother murderously slain, By right of kinship to the Princes dead, I claim and hold the throne and sovereignty.

  • Finally, one day, my uncle took a hand in the matter.

  • One day he was waylaid and shot by a party of these disaffected Indians.

  • One day, when the Unkpapas were attacked by a large war party of Crows, he fell upon the enemy's war leader with his knife.

  • One day a small party of Shoshones was seen near at hand, and in the midst of the excitement and preparations for the attack, young American Horse caught sight of a fat black-tail deer close by.

  • One day when he was dining with us at our home on the reservation, I asked him, as I had a habit of doing, for some reminiscences of his early life.

  • One day Mrs. Peace, who was still keeping her shop in Hull, received a pencilled note saying, "I am waiting to see you just up Anlaby Road.

  • One day, toward the end of the year 1876, after the return of Georges from Egypt, the widow happened to be at the house of a friend, a ballet dancer.

  • In the minds of Macbeth and his wife the suggestion of murder is originally an auto-suggestion, coming to them independently of each other as soon as they learn from the witches that Macbeth is one day to be a king.

  • He had a family anxious for his future; they knew of his liaison; they would be hopeful, no doubt, of one day breaking it off and of marrying him to some desirable young person.

  • One day he was found lying dead in his bedroom; he had been shot in the chest; the assassin had escaped through an open window.

  • One day he was about to make a round in the district.

  • One day he stole a purse full of money from Eugene Mihailovich, but was found out.

  • One day he had a drink with some peasants from the suburbs of Podolsk, and was walking home together with them.

  • One day when, after his prayers, she was again before his eyes, he began to implore her dear soul to forgive him his sin, and release him.

  • One day, in such a humour, he caught a glimpse of two Roman knights; he had them arrested and confiscated their property.

  • One day he returned expressly from the country merely to try and convince his opponent in a game which he had lost, that if he had played otherwise he would have won!

  • One day, seeing the king totally unemployed, she proposed playing with him for a thousand darics (about L500), to which he readily consented.

  • One day a customer in turning over the patterns shown her took up a piece which Paul knew from complaints made by purchasers would not wash.

  • Aunt Lucy," said he one day, "I've got something to tell you.

  • I can tell you, truly, that I'll get better in one day in the city than I could here in ten.

  • But I have more reason to grieve than any lover because in one day's time I have reached the highest peak of love that fortune could grant me, and the next day I have been the most confused and downtrodden lover in the entire world.

  • One day I had a quarrel with my most determined enemy, a girl named Anais de Rochecote.

  • Not that he had finished taking an inventory of the appurtenances of this immense house, but because he considered that he had done quite enough work for one day.

  • One day my father took her out sailing and, much to the lady's discomfiture and greatly to Richard's and my delight, upset the famous authoress.

  • By the way, I beat all the London papers in getting out the news by one day.

  • Burnham has told he had seen eleven in the Volta in one day.

  • One day's delay would have made me miss this transport, which will be the first to land troops.

  • So one day he determined to be admitted as one of the travelers.

  • One day, however-- sad and melancholy day!

  • One day, certain of these poor people, so numerous in America, came to call upon him, and requested permission to return with him to their native country.

  • The German Boehme, with his affinities for the abstract, never cared for plants until, one day, he noticed they could speak; that the daisy colloquized with the cowslip on SUCH themes!

  • We must not forget the trees of Liberty, as George Sand speaks of meeting with three of these in one day.

  • The old man even volunteered to take Mr. Kronborg up into the hills to see this place, though it was a very long drive to make in one day.

  • One day, on a fragment of a shallow bowl, she found a crested serpent's head, painted in red on terra-cotta.

  • One day he had a load of melons and he decided to take 'em to town and sell 'em along the street, and he made me go along and drive for him.

  • One day, on her way into town to take her lesson, she stopped at a bookstore and bought a photograph of the Naples bust of Julius Caesar.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one day" 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:
    century before; fine silver; hundred pound; one and; one another; one but; one can; one could; one cup sweet milk; one had; one hand; one has; one hundred thousand men; one kind; one moment; one must; one occasion; one part; one point; one single; one that; one thousand five hundred; one time; one would; submarine torpedo; taking part