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Example sentences for "one great"

  • One great source of perplexity to me is an utter ignorance whether I note the right facts, and whether they are of sufficient importance to interest others.

  • One great motive is to get information on the many points on which I want it.

  • One great blemish in the popular mind of America, and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust.

  • But almost all that Cowper wrote (at least of original composition) was subservient to one great end.

  • It was impossible that an alienation between two such men, both of whom were only anxious to do one great work, should be permanent.

  • As between England and Germany, one great impediment to a cordial understanding arose out of the differences between Lutheran and Reformed.

  • There is one great inconvenience in American travelling, arising from the uncertainty of river navigation.

  • There is one great luxury in America, which is the quantity of clear pure ice which is to be obtained wherever you are, even in the hottest seasons, and ice-creams are universal and very cheap.

  • He is not expected there, for he has been recumbent this quarter of a century in the churchyard of St. Andrews, Holborn, with the waggons and hackney- coaches roaring past him all the day and half the night like one great dragon.

  • One great comfort is," said Caddy with a sob, "that I shall never hear of Africa after I am married.

  • One great addition to the enjoyment of wild sport is the companionship of thorough sportsmen.

  • Like most novices, however, I was guilty of one great fault.

  • One great pleasure in the hunting at Newera Ellia is the ease with which it is obtained.

  • One great cause of my separation from the Church, and then of my estrangement from Christ, was the influence of bad feeling which took possession of my mind towards a number of my brother ministers.

  • The whole Bible is one great lesson of piety and virtue, of love and beneficence.

  • The want of this is one great cause of the little success, both of our preachers at home, and of our missionaries abroad.

  • We are informed by medical writers that defective ventilation is one great cause of diseased joints, as well as of diseases of the eyes, ears, and skin.

  • In deciding as to quantity of food, there is one great difficulty to be met by a large portion of the community.

  • There is one great mistake, not unfrequently made, in the management both of domestics and of children, and that is, in supposing that the way to cure defects is by finding fault as each failing occurs.

  • One great reason is because you do not believe that you need Him.

  • It is one great glory of Christianity that its merciful mysteries can find their way to the hearts of the little children.

  • The mountain sides, except on the exposed western coast, are covered from the water's edge upwards by one great forest.

  • The land is hilly, but not mountainous, and is covered by one great forest, except where a few green patches have been cleared round the thatched cottages.

  • One great cause of its prosperity is the excellent state of the roads.

  • The fact, sir, is that the African having been bred a slave for so many generations is one great cause of his lower order of intellect; breed him free and educate him, and you will find the same result in him as in the dog.

  • There can be no doubt that the severity of the climate is one great cause of so small an increase.

  • One great cause of the destruction of life was, having the doors of the building fitted to open inwards--a custom, the folly of which is only equalled by its universality.

  • One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

  • One great object of the Constitution in conferring upon the President a qualified negative upon the legislation of Congress was to protect minorities from injustice and oppression by majorities.

  • All who know the truth of reincarnation should realise that they are members of one great family, in which some are younger brethren and some elder.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one great" 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:
    know better; one another; one corner; one had; one hand; one hundred and twenty; one hundred thousand francs; one hundred years ago; one may; one moment; one more; one sense; one side; one thousand; one thousand seven hundred and ninety; one way; one will; one word; one would; one year; private theatricals; rate from; retorted the; second expedition; well worthy; what nature