It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off.
Followed by between, to, or with; as, there is an analogy between these objects, or one thing has an analogy to or with another.
It may express a loss of identity, or the substitution of one thing in place of another; alter commonly expresses a partial change, or a change in form or details without destroying identity.
That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another.
One thing at least was obvious: she was not made to be looked at thus.
He ought to be happier than I in one thing at least.
Amid these jarring events Yeobright felt one thing to be indispensable--that he should speedily make some show of progress in his scholastic plans.
One thing is cheerful in it--the guineas are not lost.
Whatever we can consider as one thing suggests to the understanding the idea of unity.
You're a slave, a bound helpless slave toone thing in the world, your imagination.
I am quite sure," she wrote to Amory, "that if there is one thing we can be positive of, it is that people will not stay in one place.
One thing is sure: you were all but mine, and now you are not nearly mine.
She did not adjust her hat, or pat her hair, or press a dimple into shape, or do one thing to signify that any such intention had been her motive in taking up the glass.
All the wild and whirling things that are let loose depend upon one thing that is forbidden.
Only (they would say) while it is one thing, it is also the only thing there is.
It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist.
Christianity (it may reasonably be said) is one thing confined to one kind of people; it began in Palestine, it has practically stopped with Europe.
But there is one thing that I have never from my youth up been able to understand.
Of one thing in particular she convicted me in my own eyes: I mean, a most unkind reticence, which hung on me then, and I confess still hangs on me now, when I try to assure you that I do love you.
One thing bothers me; what with hammering at this J.
One thing I have not got clearly; that about the omission and the commission; but there is truth somewhere about it, and I have no time to clear it just now.
My cage is better by one thing; I am an Advocate now.
One thing in particular struck me, their honesty in admitting that here they spoke bad German, and advising me to go to Coburg or Leipsic for German.
One thing, however, you must grant the good bookseller.
There's one thing I want you to do for me," said Titania.
One thing I've got to look out for," he thought, "is children.
For there is one thing certain: that this Gondremark has one foot in the Court backstairs, and the other in the Masons' lodges.
And indeed, one thing is true, that it is easy, too easy, to leave things undone.
But if there is one thing that I despise and deprecate, it is all such figures in Berlin wool.
And yet remember this; a sprint is one thing, and to run all day another.
Certes, sir, no one thing is there in the world that I would tell him, save he spake first to me.
The assembly will last three whole days, and of one thing at least you may well make boast between you and your comrade, that you have the fairest hostel and the most pleasant and the most quiet of any knights at the assembly.
And I am his uncle, so I make him be tended here of these damsels and these two squires, but no one thing is there that he so much desireth to see as Messire Gawain.
Sir, one thing hath he bid me do, whereof I am sore grieved, that and I send him not one of my daughters, he hath sworn his oath that he will reave me of my castle.
I don't care about the reward,' said the old woman, 'but there is one thing I should like.
You must know that I am very particular about what I eat, and if there is one thing that I fancy above all others, it is a plump, tender little mouse.
One day he was wandering through a wood all by himself, thinking now of one thing, now of another, till there was nothing else left to think about.
One thing at least is certain--This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.
There is one thing, however, connected with them, which is a great drawback--the horrid jargon which they speak.
One thing is certain, that the former was suddenly seen to sink to the earth before a blow of by no means extraordinary power.
One thing is certain, that I never left the field as I entered it, being carried home in the arms of the dragoon in strong convulsions, in which I continued for several hours.
Connected with this dinner there was one thing remarkable; the publisher took no animal food, but contented himself with feeding voraciously on rice and vegetables prepared in various ways.
One thing I discovered, which put me in some doubt.
Indeed, it is one thing to stand the danger of your life, and quite another to run the peril of both life and character.
To understand," they say, "is one thing, and to choose another.
The cause of these differences is, that each man has an individual internal structure, directing his partialities, one man to one thing, and another to another.
When we take hold of one thing, we must let go another.
There's one thing sartin, we can't tighten up the cinches till the bridegroom gits here.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one thing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
