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Example sentences for "single person"

  • The boundless authority of Rome was thus centered in the hands of a single person.

  • The language of the scriptural context indicates a single person.

  • I do believe that he had not the slightest notion where he got it; and, which is more, not a single person in the whole county had a notion.

  • I feel sure there is not a single person in the county who would think of the marriage in such a light.

  • Do you think there is a single person in the county who will not know that his doing so is a sign that he has quarrelled with me?

  • A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men.

  • A light two-wheeled carriage for a single person.

  • A tune, air, strain, or a whole piece, played by a single person on an instrument, or sung by a single voice.

  • However, I wait your determination; for happy is he who receives a kingdom, not from a single person only, but from the willing suffrages of a great many.

  • Unity being deemed favorable to energetic and prompt action, the chief executive power of the nation was given to a single person.

  • A corporation, or body politic, is an association of persons authorized by law to transact business under a common name, and as a single person.

  • And it is considered in law a publication of such defamatory writing, though communicated to a single person.

  • The memories which all living forms prove by their actions that they possess-the memories of their common identity with a single person in whom they meet-this is incontestable proof of their being animated by a common soul.

  • So the Tree of Life still lives and thrives as a single person, no matter how many new features it has acquired during its development, nor, again, how many of its individual leaves fall yellow to the ground daily.

  • Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, who had the management of the trials, told the grand jury in his charge that no authority whatever, either of a single person or of Parliament, had any coercive power over the king.

  • It seemed made to contain a single person, and the way it skimmed over the water was a perfect marvel to the spectators.

  • The three carefully approached the camp-fire, and soon assured themselves that there was but a single person near it, an old Indian who sat with closed eyes and nodding head, totally unmindful of their presence.

  • A single person dressed in the garb of a miner was standing on the shore leisurely surveying them as they came along.

  • The splendour of majesty and power bestows an importance on the fortunes even of a single person.

  • This observation, concerning propensity of priests to the government of a single person, is not true with regard to one sect only.

  • For my part, I remained a close prisoner, without a visit from a single person, none of my most intimate friends daring to come near me, through the apprehension that such a step might prove injurious to their interests.

  • Still, not a single person of the Guises ever mentioned a word to me on the subject; and it was well known that, for more than a twelvemonth, M.

  • Cossé and his Scots, commanding them not to admit a single person to speak with him.

  • In the first chapter of Job we have an account of a transaction said to have arisen in the court, or at the levee, of the best of all possible princes, or of governments by a single person, viz.

  • It was started without any communication with a single person of activity in the country party, and, as it should seem, without any kind of concert with government.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single person" 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:
    curse thee; exclusive privilege; free thought; look straight; nature study; practical life; second advent; single dose; single example; single exception; single game; single hair; single horse; single hour; single individuals; single layer; single leaf; single member; single nation; single night; single pair; single rank; single sentence; single shot; single state; single step