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Example sentences for "one man"

  • And the most frequent of external causes is, that the folly of one man, is the fortune of another.

  • Take one of a middle temper; or if it may not be found in one man, combine two of either sort; and forget not to call as well, the best acquainted with your body, as the best reputed of for his faculty.

  • One man by chance at this point wished to peep out; the poison touched his head, which was taken off his neck as if it had been severed with a sword.

  • The name of one man of rank and fortune after another was spoken of as that of a suitor to her hand, but in some way it was discovered that she refused them all.

  • The ancients knew that election by lot was the most democratic of all modes of appointment, seeming to say in the objectionable sense, that 'one man is as good as another.

  • But the pleasure must not be that of chance persons; the fairest music is that which delights the best and best educated, and especially that which delights the one man who is pre-eminent in virtue and education.

  • One man in evening dress passed them on foot, his eyes on the ground.

  • One man's hands pressed on the back of another.

  • One man told us he meant to try to get away from Shepperton station.

  • His companions answered, "This man is now well advanced in years, and his gradual decrease of strength, with increase of weakness, hath brought him to the misery that thou seest.

  • One man, perhaps, if he has got enough, will be satisfied to sit all day with his back to the fire and his belly to the table, by George!

  • One man says, in his despair or indifference to life, take up a handful of the earth at your feet, and paint your house that color.

  • One man proposed a book in which visitors should write their names, as at the White Mountains; but, alas!

  • After this they rose, and, as one man, proposed that the ringleaders in these matters should be punished; and that for the future, to set an example of lawlessness should be forbidden.

  • Boswell's Johnson is consistently and primarily the life of one man.

  • When we consider by what unjust methods property has been often acquired, and that what was unjustly got it must be unjust to keep, where is the harm in one man's taking the property of another from him?

  • Nor is the unity of the book that of an undeviating narrative in chronological order of one man's life; it grows rather out of a single dominating personality exhibited in all the vicissitudes of a manifold career.

  • In the South, one man, aided by slaves, could cultivate a great extent of country: it was therefore common to see rich landed proprietors.

  • One man paid $40 to ride and loop three times in rapid succession.

  • And wouldn't you know it, five or six toddies all in one man at one time made the man forget he was sick on disease and it made him fairly sick on whiskey which was what he had planned to be.

  • One man told us he had a rainwater barrel by his house.

  • One man bought a single-shot 22-rifle and some shells on credit-- about eight dollars worth.

  • And the Lord said to him: I will be with thee: and thou shalt cut off Madian as one man.

  • We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.

  • But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the other is not living.

  • The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man.

  • The swine told me that it wouldn't be fair to discriminate in favour of one man, and that the cut must apply to all their employees alike.

  • One man standing up a whole train-load, like that.

  • There's no one man in all Bonneville rich enough to do it.

  • Mrs. Derrick was swept back, pushed to one side.

  • He turned toward the barns, clapping his hat upon his head, muttering the while under his breath: "Oh, you goat!

  • In doing so he caught the flesh of his hand in the joint of the iron elbow that supported the top and pinched it cruelly.

  • I have been making a secret investigation, and I find that this blow at your son and you, and at the good name of our college was struck by one man, a man with a grievance--Doctor Gilman.

  • For she found that the memories of more than twenty summers at Fair Harbor had been wiped out by those of one summer, by those of one man.

  • For a Spanish gun-boat HAD been crippled and forced to run herself aground by a tug-boat manned by Cuban patriots, and by a single gun served by one man, and that man an American.

  • One man thought of his debts; another of the weather, and of what disaster it might bring to his silk hat; another planned his luncheon; another was rejoicing over a telegram he had but that moment received.

  • When could they say (till now) that talk'd of Rome, That her wide Walkes incompast but one man?

  • Oh, that a Lady of one man refus'd, Should of another therefore be abus'd.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one man" 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:
    equal portions; next month; one but; one could; one direction; one else; one for; one had; one hand; one hour; one hundred thousand dollars; one hundred thousand pounds; one hundred years ago; one more; one occasion; one ounce; one person; one piece; one should; one thousand seven hundred and ninety; one volume; one who; one will; one year; public property; when sufficiently