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Example sentences for "single one"

  • I would reduce them to a single one--the great wave, as I call it.

  • And this is equally true of imitation; no one man can imitate many things as well as he would imitate a single one?

  • Of these some became loaded with spontaneously self-fertilised capsules; others produced a few, and others not a single one.

  • The two crossed plants produced thirteen pods, whilst the four self-fertilised plants produced only a single one.

  • Ogle likewise covered up a large portion of a plant, and "out of a vast number of blossoms thus protected not a single one produced a pod, while the unprotected blossoms were for the most part fruitful.

  • In the following year the crossed plants again bore many flowers before the self-fertilised bore a single one.

  • A large majority of the spontaneously self-fertilised capsules produced by several plants contained no seeds, or only a single one.

  • I have received no letter from you; not a single one.

  • It would be difficult to mention a single one of our modern tragedies quite free from this defect; but the French alone have made a rule of it.

  • What was their process of reasoning, I can only judge from what a single one of them told me.

  • We also have eighteen cannon on the road to Harper's Ferry, of which arm there is not a single one yet at that point.

  • And insofar as he could tell at the distance not a single one of them was of Allied design.

  • The officer fired words at him so fast that Dave couldn't catch a single one of them.

  • But I won't answer a single one of your questions even though you do shoot me!

  • When they described the emperor's departure to the war, three cushions fell at once, and when the princes had finished their song not a single one remained.

  • The old woman had a hen and the old man had a rooster; the old woman's hen laid two eggs a day and she ate a great many, but she would not give the old man a single one.

  • The Idea of incarnation manifests itself in a multitude of examples which supplement one another, instead of pouring forth its whole fullness in a single one.

  • It may thus come to pass that a representation is entirely driven out of consciousness by two stronger ones, while it is impossible for this to happen to it from a single one, no matter how superior it be.

  • No pustules have occurred, except in one or two cases, where a single one appeared on the inoculated arm.

  • Moreover, it is quite erroneous to suppose that the presence of a single one of the products of a fermentation implies the co-existence of a particular ferment.

  • Yes, he who possesses a single one of them touches at that point the Infinite.

  • You, my poor Monsieur Becker, have asked yourself how it was possible that a girl of seventeen should know even a single one of those secrets which men of science seek with their noses to the earth,--instead of raising their eyes to heaven.

  • She has never looked into a single one of them.

  • Can you find a single one that is not disproved by a fact?

  • I would not have had her sacrifice a single one of them.

  • After all, there was not a single one of the people whom he knew who might not, in certain circumstances, prove capable of a shameful action.

  • Not a single one of his manoeuvres but was based on a close and judicial survey of the situation.

  • And yet Jackson's success in his own sphere was phenomenal, while others, perhaps of more pronounced ability, seeking success in many different directions, have failed to find it in a single one.

  • Some part of the log breastworks which Jackson's advanced line had occupied were recaptured; but not a single one of the assailants, except as prisoners, reached the plank road.

  • In all these Platonic disputes I believe there was not a single one understood.

  • Under none; but if I must choose, I should less detest the tyranny of a single one, than that of many.

  • The inhabitants, who had never witnessed such a sight before, immediately took to flight when they saw our vessels approaching, so that not a single one of them had remained in the village.

  • But have they found a single one of their penitents who was certain to have remembered all the thoughts, the desires, all the criminal aspirations of the poor sinful heart?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single one" 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:
    offer myself; said solemnly; servant came; single bird; single blow; single card; single city; single exception; single family; single file; single gentleman; single glance; single house; single large; single member; single moment; single note; single operation; single piece; single rank; single sheet; single step; single syllable; single term; single track; single word