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Example sentences for "one single"

  • This is but a single class among the poor girls, reflect.

  • During the past year two thousand three hundred and fifteen persons were incarcerated for different periods--two thousand one hundred and thirty-nine whites, one hundred and seventy-six blacks.

  • Besides this, one is apt to find the best article in the market here, as it is but natural that the chief centre of wealth should draw to it the best talent in the arts and trades.

  • The principal constituent of these dentrifices is a powerful acid, and there are some which contain large quantities of sulphuric acid, one single application of which will destroy the best teeth in the world.

  • Footnote: Annual Encyclopaedia, 1861] There is one single house in the city which contains twelve hundred inhabitants.

  • We would not upon any consideration weaken one single effort in behalf of these poor creatures, but we cannot disguise the fact that but few of this class are saved.

  • I would willingly give fifty thousand crowns," said he, "to be able to say that I took Paris without costing the life of one single man.

  • Despreaux supported the ancient, with the exception of one single modern, which surpassed, in his opinion, both old and new.

  • No, no, thou shalt not have one, one single moment!

  • Once more this unity, whereof the apostle speaks, consists in submission to one single influence or spirit.

  • Now the nature and possibility of human perfection, what it is and how it is possible, are both contained in one single expression in the text.

  • These three men, pale with dread of future events, resembled less three powers of the day than three conspirators, united by one single thought of violence.

  • One single word, and quickly, if you please!

  • One single garaffon formed the bow of the raft.

  • He went out into the street, and returned four hours later without one single penny.

  • We may not be capable of encompassing all of them in one single thought; but whenever we try to fix any one of them in our mind, it presents itself to us as a knot in which many other ideas are interlaced, twisted, and entangled.

  • So that we do not really have two ideas, which however closely connected may yet be separated to be conjoined again: what we have is one single idea.

  • The whole phenomenon conveys the idea of a close group of mutations, all belonging to one single condition of mutability.

  • Throughout this lecture I have spoken of double flowers and double flower-heads of composites as of one single group.

  • It is evident that by this test of a hundred specimens a far better [824] and much more reliable determination can be made than on the ground of the minutest examination of one single plant.

  • In one single night a hundred and eighty-five thousand men of his army perished by the sword of the destroying angel.

  • Let the young married man try the thing; let him resolve not to be seduced from his home; let him never go, in one single instance, unnecessarily from his own fire-side.

  • So great a stimulus, during only five years, had the presence of the full and effective staff of an apostolical ministry added to the growth and increase of the Church in one single colony!

  • Truly, when I should be inclined to despair of the whole world, one single glance at you raises me again high and higher, fills me with faith and hope; I cannot conceive what I should have done without you these last four years.

  • One single piece of good news, and I float once more on the top of the ocean waves.

  • One single cut I will indicate to you myself, and I even insist upon the omission of the passage, viz.

  • They make those coffins out of one single piece, and from incorruptible woods.

  • By blowing through it they discharge certain small darts smeared with so deadly a poison that if one single drop of blood is drawn, death is certain to result, if the antidote is not quickly applied.

  • But Colonel Dow says he failed to see "one single spark of Indian treachery, cruelty, or barbarism extinguished" among the tribes he visited, who were taught by these priests.

  • One single instance, however minute, that established the reverse, would vitiate the whole theory; and if so, then we are the sport of a power that is sometimes kind and sometimes malignant.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one single" 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:
    charge upon; generally preferred; having already; one after the other; one and the same; one another; one could; one for; one form; one half; one hundred thousand dollars; one might; one occasion; one ounce; one piece; one sees; one sense; one that; one thousand; one will; one with; one would; one year; perforated zinc; prima facie; white apron