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Example sentences for "single grain"

  • In the entire week from Christmas to New Year's the progress in abandonment of opium was but a single grain.

  • As a matter of fact, a single grain of gold has been beaten into a leaf seventy-five inches square.

  • A single grain of indigo, for instance, will colour a ton of water.

  • On the full-moon day called Kadlakadavena hunname, they make a mixture of cholam or other flour with a single grain of unbroken Bengal gram inside, boil it and eat.

  • Whilst eating, they must not drop a single grain.

  • To show his magical skill, a Gardi should be able to cut a single grain of rice in twain with a big knife.

  • Hence a single grain of silk can be divided into at least two millions five hundred and ninety-two thousand parts, each of which may be seen without the help of a microscope.

  • Suppose this thread is three hundred and sixty feet long, it will weigh but a single grain.

  • I weighed it with the greatest care I was able; and found the chaise, man, and flea, were barely equal to a single grain.

  • What an enormous quantity of electricity, therefore, is required for the decomposition of a single grain of water!

  • Although the ten females did not produce a single grain of pollen, yet they were all thoroughly well fertilised by the one hermaphrodite plant, and this is an interesting fact.

  • The small anthers borne by the short stamens of the female flowers are well formed and dehisce properly, but I could never find in them a single grain of pollen.

  • Canst thou forge for me the Sampo, Hammer me the lid in colors, From the tips of white-swan feathers From the milk of greatest virtue, From a single grain of barley, From the finest wool of lambkins?

  • Yet we have it under perfect command; can evolve, direct, and employ it at pleasure; and when it has performed its full work of electrolyzation, it has only separated the elements of a single grain of water.

  • Thou must brew the ale of barley, From the malt the sweet drink fashion, From a single grain of barley, And by burning half a tree-trunk.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    active volcano; great tribulation; single acre; single atom; single body; single case; single cell; single city; single dose; single fight; single generation; single glance; single head; single idea; single individual; single leaf; single light; single phase; single room; single ship; single state; single stem; single thread; single wire; single witness; single year