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Example sentences for "single day"

  • It is for thy sky that she hath devised this unrivalled scheme, for, except thee, none on earth is capable of travelling in a single day a hundred yojanas.

  • If it pleases thee, I intend to go to Damayanti's Swayamvara in course of a single day.

  • Castellani, on the page just quoted, says that even so late as about 1780, the Po required a heavy rain of a week to overflow its banks, but that forty years later it was sometimes raised to full flood in a single day.

  • The precipitation has been known to be as great as twelve or thirteen inches in a single day!

  • This is my chief desire, to stand within the hermits’ grove were it but for a single day.

  • He gains with every visit you make him; he pines if you miss him for a single day.

  • Prayers had been asked in the churches for more than a hundred sick in a single day, and this many times.

  • Dismissing the consideration of the remaining points, as requiring more time than could be given on a single day, the cardinal undertook to prove only two positions, viz.

  • The proletarian is helpless; left to himself, he cannot live a single day.

  • In a single day he had visited seven houses in which there was not a bed, in some of them not even a heap of straw.

  • A bloody and complete victory has sometimes yielded no more than the possession of the field and the loss of ten thousand men has sometimes been sufficient to destroy, in a single day, the work of ages.

  • Guided by their secret intelligence, he surprised the unguarded fleet in the Bay of Carthagena: many of the ships were sunk, or taken, or burnt; and the preparations of three years were destroyed in a single day.

  • The distances of the places named one from another are such that they fairly represent a possible situation in War, and a single day's march might well bring them into collision.

  • How long should a singer practise at one time, and for how long during a single day?

  • In complexity of action the resonance-chambers are wonderful beyond any instrument devised by man, and the more one studies the subject, the greater the wonder becomes at the amount and complexity of the work done in a single day's speaking.

  • The calves and their mothers were brought down to the home corral and branded in a single day.

  • The ranch had fallen heir to a complete camp kit, with the new wagon, and with a single day's preparations, the shipping outfit stood ready to move on an hour's notice.

  • They had ranged in scattering bunches during the winter, and a single day would be required to gather and corral the ranch remuda.

  • As many as five and six herds arrived in a single day, none of which were allowed to pass without an appeal: if strangers, in behalf of a hospital; if among friends, the simple facts were sufficient.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single day" 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:
    dramatic poet; much expedition; said laughing; single action; single block; single blow; single combat; single consonant; single flower; single form; single glass; single grain; single head; single individuals; single large; single letter; single moment; single one; single pair; single ship; single star; single volume; single wire; single woman; single women; thrilling and absorbing interest