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Example sentences for "single term"

  • Treating the combination as a single term.

  • Such is the commentary upon the words, "treating the combination as a single term;" in other words, such the difference between a compound word and two words.

  • Composition is the joining together, in language, of two different words, and treating the combination as a single term.

  • In connection with such an amendment, it would seem advisable to limit the service of the chief magistrate to a single term, of either four or six years.

  • The North had supported Southern men for President--a long succession of them--and even twice concurred in dropping a Northern President at the end of a single term, and taking a Southern in his place.

  • It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.

  • Mr. Lincoln's services in Congress had been limited to a single term in the lower house, and his great fame was yet to be achieved, not as a legislator, but as Chief Executive during the most critical years of our history.

  • The pendulum of history swings in centuries," and a single term of the great office weighed little in view of the perils that surely awaited a failure to secure peaceful adjustment.

  • Such is the commentary upon the words, treating the combination as a single term; in other words, such the difference between a compound word and two words.

  • Composition is the joining together, in language, of two different words, and treating the combination as a single term.

  • Two years later he served a single term in the Assembly, and for ten years thereafter he had confined his attention almost exclusively to his profession, becoming a strong jury lawyer.

  • A single term in Congress had placed Spencer in the ranks of the leaders.

  • He was a member of the House for only a single term, but he left a clear imprint of the high character which has since been put to severe tests and was never found wanting.

  • He had been chosen a representative in Congress for a single term twenty-five years before, and had afterwards served a full term on the Supreme Bench of Ohio, the last two years as Chief Justice of the court.

  • For twenty years after admission to the bar he gave his time and his energy to professional pursuits, uninterrupted by any political engagements, except a single term in each branch of the Massachusetts Legislature.

  • His legislative experience had been limited to a single term in the Ohio Senate, and as the Democrats had carried Ohio in the autumn of 1877 before he could take his seat, he saw before him a short service in Congress.

  • I am brother to those who are potential husbands of the same group of women and since all of us males occupy this common status there is correlatively a single term by which all of us are called by our children.


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