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Example sentences for "only one"

  • As only one of us three will be the object of sacrifice, we shall decide.

  • The oldest date is eighteen-seventy-five, and there is only one of that year.

  • Persecuted by ill-fortune, and stricken with grief, there seemed to be only one means of safety left to me.

  • There seems to me only one way in which to decide the matter, and that is to wake one after the other and judge which of them expresses the greater admiration for the other.

  • It has pleased Heaven to give me only one daughter, who possesses such great beauty and charm that I could only give her to a prince as highly born and as accomplished as yourself.

  • Ah, how is it that there is only one cup?

  • There would, in that case, be only one way of salvation for the people who had erected barricades, and that would be to manifest their will a second time, and so adjourn the decisions of a representation that was not national.

  • Among the various personages, only one appears to me quite worthy of interest, and that is poor Fulgence, who was so straightforward and honest, and who is treated so badly.

  • If she would have faltered once for only one half-moment, he would have pinioned her; but she was as firm as rock, and her searching eyes never left him.

  • I saw a white figure, and as if to prevent my discrediting the testimony of only one of my senses, I heard my glass removed--the same which is there now on the table.

  • The Active Citizen Electors shall for this time have free choice of only One-third of their National Assembly.

  • But it was very high; only one of us could reach it, by mounting on the shoulders of both the others.

  • There's only one," answered the Inspector.

  • There were a thousand lives to save, but it was of only one that I was thinking when I dropped over the wall that night.

  • There is only one lamp in it, upon the left-hand side, and as we approached this lamp I saw a man coming towards us with his back very bent, and something like a box slung over one of his shoulders.

  • Only one more," he explained in answer to my look, "his own private ledger.

  • Only one moment do you come face to face with life; that is in the moment when you die, leaving the other puppets to be dressed in black and make believe to cry.

  • Paul, in this world there is only one path to possible happiness.

  • That is only one of my gifts, and by no means the highest.

  • She went over and over them--and they began to seem true: "Only ONE girl he could feel THAT sorry for!

  • There's only one thing to do: get both buildings down as quickly as we can, and build over.

  • You say it was only because he was sorry, but let me tell you there's only ONE girl he could feel THAT sorry for!

  • Contraction of only one ventricle of the heart.

  • When there is only one gyron on the shield it is bounded by two lines drawn from the fess point, one horizontally to the dexter side, and one to the dexter chief corner.

  • When we killed Braddock and all his men, they thought that ten warriors stood in the moccasins of only one.

  • There is a warrior among those trees over there whom I have not seen here before," he replied, "he is as tall and as powerful as Timmendiquas, and there is only one such.

  • He was assailed by it at all points, and it could be repelled by only one thing, food.

  • Whether they believed the folly about the black box, and all that stuff, is not for me to say; only one thing I know, they pretended to do so, and persuaded the ignorant rustics.

  • Very often she used to say that I was her only comfort, and I am sure she was my only one; and when she died it was more to me than if I had lost a mother.

  • If I must tell the pure truth,' said the wizard, looking up at the arches of his windows, 'I can tell of only one to whom I ever have done good.

  • Only one thing I resolved upon, that come when he would he should not see Annie.

  • Stability problems had not yet been considered, and in only one or two cases was fin area added at the rear high up, to counterbalance the effect of the floats low down in front.

  • If the rear wheel (there is only one of these) left but intermittent tracks on the ground, does that prove that the machine has a tendency to rise when running at a certain speed?

  • Only one form of this type had any possibility of success.

  • And the thoughts take the wings of words, and float Out of my spirit to thee; But the song dies away into only one note, And sounds but in only one key.

  • Only one, all the rest are but idols, That fall from their shrines soon or late, When the Love that is Lord of the temple, Comes with sceptre and crown to the gate.

  • There is only one pre-eminent UUCP transport site today in the U.

  • Usenet is only one of the various kinds of traffic carried via UUCP, and UUCP is only one of the various transports carrying Usenet traffic.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cannot stand; general character; more agreeable; only answer; only apparent; only been; only come; only for; only friend; only from; only give; only half; only hope; only love; only one; only remember; only served; only surviving; only thirty; only thought; only true; only when; only yesterday; only you; our language; would sell