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Example sentences for "single case"

  • I don't know that I recollect a single case.

  • Was that a single case, or has it occurred oftener with you?

  • In the second generation it ran to another island, and when the data gave out, at the fourth generation, there was not a single case of consanguineous marriage involved.

  • In the fourth generation this pedigree, which was far from complete, went out of the islands; so far as the data showed there was not a single case of consanguineous marriage.

  • A single case, related by Professor Royce, attracted a good deal of attention.

  • It is not enough that a practitioner should have had a single case of puerperal fever not followed by others.

  • There is no evidence to show that when fever has been imported into a locality by a single case, typhus fever has ever produced other than typhus, or relapsing other than relapsing fever.

  • The principles of isolation as applied to a single case as indicated above may also be applied to infected localities in case of epidemics.

  • I have not heard of a single case of even meditated revenge.

  • The Governor informed us that the police returns did not report a single case of arrest during the holidays.

  • Darwin says that a single case of the adaptation of one species to another would be fatal to his theory.

  • The sun is excessively hot, and feels sharp in Africa; but, probably from the greater dryness of the atmosphere, we never heard of a single case of sunstroke, so common in India.

  • Livingstone never met or heard of a single case, though the protective head-dresses of India are rarely seen.

  • The people were all plump, and in good condition; and we never saw a single case of intoxication among them, though all drank abundance of this liting, or sweet beer.

  • Starting with this strong probability that the improvement is due to the new form of government, we can go a step further and examine a single case, in order to establish more clearly the sequence of events which we call a cause.

  • In each case it will be noticed you would pass from a similarity which exists in a single case or in a small number of cases to the conclusion.

  • Wherever multiple causes are possible for a phenomenon it is unsafe to argue from a single case.

  • By the end of September, the last focus of the disease had been got rid of, and since then, up to the beginning of January, there has not been a single case.

  • There was not a single case of enteric among the personnel of this first section of the hospital.

  • Jeannette spent two winters in the Arctic region, and had a single case of scurvy.

  • My experience is limited to a single case, which recovered while taking 30 drops three times a day in conjunction with Carlsbad water and a pill of iron, quinia, and arsenic.

  • Another French frigate, which had left Goree, on the same voyage to Brest, two days earlier, did not have a single case.

  • A violent controversy on its specific use in agues arose in the Netherlands; it had failed in every case at Brussels, it had not failed in a single case at Delft.

  • As yet I have not found a single case of a terrestrial animal which fertilises itself.

  • The subject well deserves to be discussed at great length, but I will here take only a single case, that of working or sterile ants.

  • He thinks his prescription cured a single case of a particular complaint; he tries it in twenty similar cases without effect, and sets down the first as probably nothing more than a coincidence.

  • Can you tell me a single case in which the Emperor has acted contrary to the Constitution?

  • It contains not a single case which I think can be called an exception to the fact I was so firmly impressed with--that the cow-pox protects the human body from the smallpox.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single case" 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:
    modern system; poorly developed; single acre; single blow; single body; single combat; single copy; single exception; single game; single grain; single individuals; single layer; single letter; single life; single member; single point; single rank; single sheet; single soul; single subject; single thing; single tree; single vowel; single year; then were; training camp