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Example sentences for "single point"

  • I am of opinion that a democratic government tends in the end to increase the real strength of society; but it can never combine, upon a single point and at a given time, so much power as an aristocracy or a monarchy.

  • To conceive of men remaining forever unequal upon one single point, yet equal on all others, is impossible; they must come in the end to be equal upon all.

  • On the other hand, the eyes of the nation are centred on a single point; all are watching the gradual birth of so important an event.

  • During her entire stay there, he had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and precipitates the whole soul on a single point.

  • Therefore, if you extend the lines from the edges of each body as they converge you will bring them to a single point, and necessarily the said lines must form a pyramid.

  • The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.

  • By a pyramid of lines I mean those which start from the surface and edges of bodies, and, converging from a distance meet in a single point.

  • His boasted liberty is nothing, if there is a single point where he is under constraint and bound.

  • In such a case a fork or aigrette of five or more points should invariably be used in place of a single point.

  • All that is needed is that the consciousness be focused to a single point--become 'one pointed' as the Hindu teachers call it.

  • A single point of space may accommodate the manifestations of each and all of the seven great planes of being, and all the subdivisions, and sub-divisions (sevenfold in division) at the same time.

  • But in ancient times, the impetuous charge of twenty thousand men on a single point, followed by success, would produce a panic, and then a rout, when even flight is obstructed by numbers.

  • It was gained on the same principle as Epaminondas and Alexander won their battles, by concentrating all the forces upon a single point, and breaking the line.

  • The controversy between this country and Great Britain seems to have been brought to a single point.

  • Mr. Speaker: Whatever may have been the original causes for the declaration of this war, we are now taught to believe that the question in contest is reduced to a single point.

  • The Russian fortifications in the Baltic prevented the allies from attempting any serious operations in that quarter, and those in the Black Sea confined the war to a single point of the Heracleidan Chersonese.

  • In the same way the Archduke Charles took an interior position, between Moreau and Jourdan, in 1796, and prevented them from concentrating their forces on a single point.

  • Collecting itself at a single point, it obstructs his progress for days, and sometimes for weeks together.

  • On the other hand, is there a single point on which we deliberately are working evil?

  • For every series of incidents or actions, which are occasioned by each other, however much it be prolonged, may always be comprehended under a single point of view, and denoted by a single name.

  • Footnote: It is calculated merely for a single point of view: seen from every other point, the broken lines betray the imperfection of the imitation.

  • Each page consists of two columns: a single point indicates a break in the sense, but there are no other divisions.

  • Bezae are often divided by a single point.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single point" 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:
    little beaten; mighty sight; purchasing power; single atom; single bird; single block; single bound; single dose; single figure; single gentleman; single grain; single instance; single layer; single life; single moment; single night; single object; single one; single seed; single sheet; single stroke; single syllable; single thread; single volume; single witness; single year