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Example sentences for "one person"

  • Much as the Aged is one person, and Mr. Jaggers is another.

  • One person of mild and benevolent aspect even gave me a tract ornamented with a woodcut of a malevolent young man fitted up with a perfect sausage-shop of fetters, and entitled TO BE READ IN MY CELL.

  • Avoiding forbidden ground, as you did just now, I may still say that on the constancy of one person (naming no person) all my expectations depend.

  • For there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit.

  • The Orthodox doctrine is not of God dwelling in a human body as its soul (which seems to be the view of Swedenborg), but it is of God united with a human soul and body as one person or one consciousness.

  • Our properly Orthodox teachers and churches, while professing three persons, also retain the verbal profession of one person.

  • But very often the same thing may be a class to one person, and a subordinate division to another.

  • For he did not think that he could find all the component parts of perfect beauty in one person, because nature has made nothing of any class absolutely perfect in every part.

  • And since he was not to save a man, but men, therefore it was necessary that he should take hold, not of one person, but of the common nature, clothing himself with part of the same.

  • Witnesses shall be examined by one person on behalf of the party producing them and then cross-examined by one person on the other side.

  • The case on each side shall be opened by one person.

  • In fact it will be found that a large proportion of the proverbial sayings which we glibly use are fallacies based on a very limited experience of the world, and probably were set afloat by the idiocy or prejudice of one person.

  • But take out of it one person, and it would have for you no more interest than any other huge assembly of ugly houses.

  • The interesting fact was that she was obliged to judge this world according to the standards of literature, morals, and manners that had been implanted in her mainly by the influence of one person.

  • The death of one person or thing before another.

  • Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp.

  • The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality.

  • In the case of one person having expressed a wish to make the acquaintance of another, there remains but the wishes of one person to ascertain.

  • The maternal gift of song would certainly descend to him, and perhaps it was allotted to the Emperor's son to amaze his generation by the presence of hero and singer in one person, like a second King David.

  • Of the Union of several Offices in one person.

  • One person--with one life--could only see a bit of it.

  • In vulgarisms like I goes, I is, one person is used instead of another.

  • In this case, instead of one person, two are spoken of, and the verb invades must be changed from the singular to the plural.

  • We say the secretary and treasurer (or, a secretary and treasurer), when the two offices are held by one person.

  • He is a carpenter, locksmith, and clock-maker, all in one person.

  • He was the "Lion-head" and the "Council of Ten" in one person.

  • After all, we can't figure it's the work of one person: it's too widespread for that.

  • One person couldn't do this alone, at least, not very often and not without serious harm to himself.

  • I think this is being done on an individual basis--working on one person at a time.

  • The duty of feeding him should be in the hands of one person only.

  • It ought also to be one person's duty to see that he has frequent access to the yard or garden, that he gets plenty of clean drinking water, plenty of outdoor exercise, and a comfortable bed.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one person" 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:
    known works; once went; one after the other; one but; one can; one corner; one day; one direction; one had; one hundred and fifty; one hundred thousand francs; one kind; one more; one night; one occasion; one sees; one species; one thing; one thousand seven hundred and ninety; one was; one way; one who; one word; one would have said; silver coins; yellow fever