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Example sentences for "one was"

  • No one was there, and women were going around taking covers off the seats.

  • As soon as she had passed, however, I mentioned that kissing was all right if one was engaged, but not otherwise.

  • Tom came into our vestabule with me, and would doubtless have done so when no one was passing, but that George opened the door suddenly.

  • We then went on, and at last found a place where no one was living, and decided to claim it in the name of the government.

  • No one was in sight, and he had in his hands his heavy flail.

  • One was a little, sharp, dark, ferret-faced man, the other was tall and fair.

  • One was Pilgrim's Progress, about a man that left his family, it didn't say why.

  • One was a big family Bible full of pictures.

  • But then ensued the best part of the comedy: my visitors chanced to be natives of three different places; one was of Seville, another of Utrera, and the third of Miguel Turra, a miserable village in La Mancha.

  • One was a small slim man, about fifty, with sharp, ill-natured features.

  • One was a white cling, and one was yellow.

  • I ran before her and opened the sitting-room door, but no one was there, so I went on to the dining-room.

  • Laddie seemed annoyed and no one was quicker to see it than Leon.

  • I was not scared, because I knew no one was sick.

  • One was that in the crotch of some tiptop branches the biggest chicken hawks you ever saw had their nest, and if they took too many chickens father said they'd have to be frightened a little with a gun.

  • Since the worst had happened, no one was curious as to what would befall them next.

  • One was that if he told himself to remember a certain thing at a certain time, he usually found that he did remember it.

  • Then there was silence again, and for a long time, as it seemed to Marco, no one was to be seen.

  • One was a very Circe amongst plants, the horrible charm of which can never be forgotten.

  • I had said my prayers and steeled myself to all sorts of fine endurance on the way up, and here, when it came to the crisis, no one was anxious to play the necessary villain.

  • One was in the Indian Civil Service and one in the rapidly developing motor business.

  • If one was free," she said, "one could go to him.

  • It immediately occurred to Melmotte that the baronet had come about his share of the plunder out of the railway, and he at once resolved to be stern in his manner, and perhaps rude also.

  • If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil!

  • I would dare to do anything for my children.

  • Sometimes, when she crossed the court of the castle, and thought no one was looking, she stopped to pat the old pointer at the gate.

  • No one was found to say that Yves de Cornault had been unkind to his wife, and it was plain to all that he was content with his bargain.

  • One was Joe, the mussel-man, who lived in a tiny hut by the edge of the water under the bridge.

  • No one was drowned; for every soul in the island was high up in the hills watching the coronation of King Jong.

  • One was acquitted, one condemned for theft, and two for assault.

  • There were two ways of escaping this dilemma: one was to withdraw the warriors; the other, by some hocus-pocus, to abrogate the neutrality.

  • One was Carin-Jama, otherwise The Silent; and the other was Bellin-Jama, The Boaster.

  • One was hoisted up to the gaff of the flagstaff, and the other was placed on the wide veranda.

  • One was a down-east Yankee, as I believe they are called, and the other was a guzzling German.

  • One was Wahchewin; the other was Ohitika.

  • If one was touched, the reverse was to be expected.

  • Forgetful that I was a warrior, I gave a loud scream and started backward; but soon recollecting myself, looked down with shame, although no one was near.

  • The next day no one was willing to lead the fleet.

  • One was a large female moose; the other a yearling.

  • But at best they seemed to supply unintelligible lists of names and dates which no one was disposed to take seriously.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one was" 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:
    consolatione philosophiae; great sorrow; heart beat; one and; one case; one could; one end; one for; one form; one great; one has; one hundred; one hundred and twenty; one large octavo volume; one man; one occasion; one ounce; one person; one sense; one side; one single; one thousand five hundred and ninety; one will; one would; public attention; season well