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Example sentences for "single sentence"

  • His policy might be summed up in a single sentence of this manifesto,--"The republic is the will of a great people; it derives its title from itself.

  • Usually it consists of a single sentence, although it is much better to break it into two than to make the sentence too long and complicated.

  • Social announcements of any kind are usually, like the wedding and engagement announcements, confined to a single sentence.

  • The story may vary from a single sentence to half a column, but it always begins in the same way and elaborates only the same details.

  • The perverted Doctrine of the Atonement, which tends to beget the parasitic habit, may be defined in a single sentence--it is very much because it can be defined in a single sentence that it is a perversion.

  • This contrast may be found in a single sentence or it may be extended through an entire paragraph.

  • He could dispose of a number of trivial events in a single sentence.

  • Emphasis is sometimes given by making a single sentence into a paragraph.

  • The contrast may be given in a single sentence or in a single paragraph, but often a paragraph or more may be required for each of the two ideas contrasted.

  • He who realises the difficulty of being a good king--has he not almost succeeded in making his country prosper by a single sentence?

  • Is there a single sentence, continued the Duke, by which a country can be ruined?

  • Duke Ting[6] asked if there was a single sentence by which a country might be made to flourish.

  • Confucius answered: No single sentence can be expected to have such a virtue as this.

  • Let this worst be written roughly, and in a single sentence.

  • Others that possibly occupied pages of manuscript and took several minutes to present may be cut down to a single sentence.

  • Of the seven or eight different kinds of lead, a quotation of a single sentence or a single paragraph is happiest if one can be found that will give the keynote of the speech or will harmonize with a declared policy of the paper.

  • The summarizing lead may be a single sentence or a single paragraph, or two or three paragraphs, according to the number and complexity of the details in the story.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single sentence" 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:
    military division; single bird; single bound; single cell; single example; single fact; single form; single game; single glass; single letter; single light; single minute; single operation; single people; single phase; single room; single season; single seed; single subject; single term; single thing; single track; single women; single word; social leader; young lassie