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Example sentences for "single bound"

  • Heaven Is Not Reached at a Single Bound 117 J.

  • Heaven is not reached at a single bound, But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.

  • A single bound and he was across the room; a single blow with his fist and the king of the Incas dropped senseless to the floor.

  • Harry sprang across to her with a single bound.

  • We leaped forward together, crossing the intervening space in a single bound, and bore the Inca to the floor under us.

  • But the greatest genius is unable to elevate itself into a very high region of thought or feeling at a single bound, or to sever the links which unite it with the past.

  • No Fetish worshipper, however lofty his genius, could have evolved the systems of Brahmanism or Buddhism by a single bound of his imagination.

  • A bushman never at a single bound became a Homer or a Shakspeare.

  • Heaven is not reached at a single bound; But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.

  • Heaven is not reached by a single bound, 115.

  • With a single bound, she reached Georgia Conway, and struck at her heart.

  • He reached the door of the room at a single bound--but at the same instant the new comers rushed by me, and burst in.

  • And the swarthy Hercules passed through the door in rear at a single bound, bearing off the woman like a feather.

  • A suspension bridge cobwebbed itself across the Schuylkill where that audacious arch used to leap the river at a single bound,--an arch of greater span, as they loved to tell us, than was ever before constructed.

  • As Euthymia entered it gave a single bound, fluttered for an instant as if with a faint memory of its old habit, then throbbed full and strong, comparatively, as if under the spur of some powerful stimulus.

  • You must not expect to "leap with a single bound" into the society of those whom it is not flattery to call your betters.

  • Van, and with a single bound he sprang from the car platform into the street, leaving the driver staring at his retreating form in blank amazement.

  • Seizing the sash, he thrust it aside, and then sprang into the room with a single bound.

  • As his eyes rested upon the villain our hero forgot everything else, and, with a single bound, sprang forward and seized Clancy by the throat.

  • But the same instant he sprang up again in a single bound.

  • The bed quivered an instant at the shock, but the unholy spell was lifted from his soul and Jim Shorthouse sprang out of bed and across the floor in a single bound.

  • The next second Shorthouse came at me with a single bound.

  • At a single bound he had gained the ship's side.

  • Both cleared it at a single bound, in which the activity of the female was not the least conspicuous, and, clambering up the opposite steep, secured their footing, by the aid of the same underwood that had assisted them in their descent.

  • Summoning all my dexterity into a single bound, I cleared the chasm; and with one buskined foot (for my hunting costume was strictly Highland) clung firmly to the ledge, while I secured my balance with the other.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single bound" 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:
    get his; has been already mentioned; single acre; single atom; single block; single cell; single combat; single drop; single game; single gentleman; single glass; single head; single house; single individual; single line; single minute; single organ; single people; single seed; single sentence; single ship; single subject; single tree; single vowel; stepping forward; went about