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Example sentences for "one place"

  • I saw him watch the wheeling kites and look below them, and twice I saw him fix his gaze for minutes at a time on one place.

  • At last we set the extra twenty boxes in one place together, slipping and falling in the process because the deck was wet and the ship unsteady; and then I went and reported to Ranjoor Singh.

  • Yet at one place, where we tied to the bank because of delay ahead, a man shouted from a sand-dune that the kaiser of Germany has turned Muhammadan and now summons all Islam to destroy the French and British.

  • The case of the savage is very different; he is tied to no one place, he has no prescribed task, no superior to obey, he knows no law but his own will; he is therefore forced to reason at every step he takes.

  • A man is not planted in one place like a tree, to stay there the rest of his life, and to pass from one extreme to another you must travel twice as far as he who starts half-way.

  • But these meridians disappear, it takes time to trace them, and you are obliged to work in one place.

  • At last he too got tired of remaining so long in one place; the novelty had worn away, and packing up his things he left us.

  • I suppose he had flattered himself that I was really entertaining one set of opinions for one place, and another set for another place; that I was afraid to say at one place what I uttered at another.

  • The only thing that could make me more grateful to you would be to know exactly where she is: but you must understand that it's like a peep into Heaven to have her existence narrowed to one place.

  • I--I don't usually sell more than a dozen or two in one place.

  • There never was enough in one place to pay, and no other man wanted to spend the time, and so I've always felt free to take it.

  • At one place a real mare used to be sent, but the man who rode her was subjected to some rough treatment at the farmhouse to which he paid his unwelcome visit.

  • In one place a raised beach with marine littoral shells, and in another immediately adjoining a submerged forest.

  • It had struck at one place, but the long voyage that had followed showed that no damage had resulted.

  • By this time the King was running about in a pitiable way, touching people for the King's evil in one place, reviewing his troops in another, and bleeding from the nose in a third.

  • Button-Bright didn't seem a bit afraid or worried because he was lost, and the shaggy man had no home, perhaps, and was as happy in one place as in another.

  • Books and ornaments were scattered about in profusion, and the shaggy man thought he had never seen so many pretty things in one place before.

  • They stay in one place, so folks can walk on them.

  • Suddenly, with beating wings, he kept himself in one place in the air and then dropped down into the grass.

  • Suddenly the stranger paused in his flight and for a moment appeared to remain in one place, his great wings heating rapidly to hold him there.

  • Eventually I mounted a pack-saddle, and we crossed a spur of Takadayama at a height of 2100 feet on a well-devised series of zigzags, eight of which in one place could be seen one below another.

  • But the old woman would not go away; shuffled in one place, snorted, chewed with her lips and looked inimically at the girl sitting-- with her back to the light.

  • In one place, a white streak marked a rebound of the current from an obstacle below, and it was across this spot the men dragged the pulley.

  • In the foreground there was a steep slope where rock ledges broke through the wet turf, and in one place a chasm cleft the hill.

  • In one place, the figures of a man and horses moved slowly across the fading light; but except for this, the wide landscape was without life and desolate.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one place" 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:
    being born; crazy about; door exercise; established harmony; gymnastic exercises; one after; one can; one cup sweet milk; one else; one for; one form; one great; one hundred years ago; one kind; one knows; one man; one may; one part; one place; one sees; one should; one who; one will; one word; other plays; superior education