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Example sentences for "single step"

  • The younger man took a single step forward, his uniform showing in the moonlight.

  • I reject that conclusion, and I premonish the reader that, if he admits it to a greater or less extent, he cannot proceed a single step farther in the science.

  • Not only do we work for all, but we cannot realize a single step of progress without its being profitable to the Community at large.

  • Never able to see fifty feet ahead, he still went on with the utmost certainty, and without having to retrace a single step; and displayed from first to last consummate knowledge of the materials with which he was dealing.

  • For the space of half-an-hour we remained on the spot without moving a single step.

  • For the space of half an hour we remained on the spot without moving a single step.

  • Never able to see fifty feet ahead, he still went on with the utmost certainty and without having to retrace a single step, and displayed from first to last consummate knowledge of the materials with which he was dealing.

  • The chaise rolled him back hungry and dissatisfied to Emberton, where the tidings he had so often before received, that the pursuit of Captain Delaware had not advanced a single step, did not tend to relieve him.

  • Has the human understanding progressed a single step by the assistance of this metaphysical science?

  • The human mind, blinded by theology, has scarcely advanced a single step.

  • But this only moved the difficulty a single step; for the fact of the sympathy remained unimpaired, and if it was a satire we were ourselves the objects of it.

  • The well-being of mankind is not advanced a single step.

  • Having made this protest in favor of law, of justice, and good policy, permit me to take a single step more.

  • And remember—I will not allow you to take a single step in these matters, unauthorised by me.

  • This is an affair which demands the greatest caution; and if you utter a word more than I direct you to speak, or take a single step unknown to me, you will be undone!

  • I cannot see the way a single step ahead.

  • I dare not take a single step from my appointed course, even for the sake of her who is dearer to me than all.

  • I dread neither the drost nor the ferocious innkeeper--for fear of them I stir not a single step.

  • Were that possible, we shall not exceed our authority one single step.

  • This change also took place at a single step.

  • Whether this is true or not, I will not pretend to say, but at any rate wingless insects may also arise, not through a slow process of elimination, but at a single step.

  • Here then at a single step a type appeared that was sexually dimorphic.

  • Thus at a single step a typical region of the body has doubled.

  • D'Artagnan was not one of those foolhardy men who seek a ridiculous death in order that it may be said of them that they did not retreat a single step.

  • If you make a single step to find her you are lost.

  • Athos did not leave his chamber; he made up his mind not to take a single step to equip himself.

  • In the silence that cuts in I feel how this man is wishing I'd never go--wishing it so strongly that for a moment he touches love and a path is opened along which I could take a step, but only a single step, no more.

  • A discovery flooding the heart--it is a single step that is carrying us along.

  • There was an extreme point in Massillon's discourses at which mere reason, having done, and done terribly, its utmost, was fain to confess that it could not go a single step farther.

  • The child can never take, you see A single step without a staff-- The harshest punishment would be Too lenient for the crime by half.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single step" 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:
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