SINGLE in a Sentence

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367 example sentences for SINGLE, such as:

1. He did not turn round a single time.
2. The plant produced a single white bloom.
3. She removed every single thing from the box.
4. He had missed being elected by a single vote.
5. The longest journey starts with a single step.

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 Meanings and Examples of SINGLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
single
 a.  only one
 n.  one person or thing
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a small garden.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME
2  The house had not a single door which could be locked.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
3  That man has another future elsewhere, on high, below, anywhere, I don't believe; not one single word of it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
4  In short, where the Roman ladies repaired on one single night.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
5  Not a single future dreamed of engrafting itself on this solitary old man.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
6  Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its foliage in his shadow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
7  He did not turn round a single time.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
8  In the midst of these gardens and hedges he caught sight of a small house of a single story, the window of which was lighted up.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
9  One detail, which we must not omit, is that he possessed a physical strength which was not approached by a single one of the denizens of the galleys.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
10  She alone, of all the four, was not called "thou" by a single one of them.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
11  The devotion of a single man had given force and courage to all.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
12  There was not a single spider's web, not a grain of dust, on the glass window of that conscience.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
13  These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that they formed but a single one there; both were equally absorbing and imperative and ruled his slightest actions.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
14  His trouble was so great that he could not perceive the form of a single idea distinctly, and he could have told nothing about himself, except that he had received a great blow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
15  There existed a hollow way wherein one saw neither a single shrub nor a spear of moss.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
Example Sentence: (157 in 11 pages)
16  The leadership want to present a single slate of candidates to be approved in an open vote.
17  He had missed being elected by a single vote.
18  I agree that he was probably killed by a single blow and that wooden mallet on the table seems the likely weapon.
19  The plant produced a single white bloom.
20  The Workers' Party failed to win a single governorship.
21  The longest journey starts with a single step.
22  As you listen, you notice how every single word is imbued with a breathless sense of wonder.
23  The changes in tax rates will benefit single people the most.
24  A single pale blue flower grows up from each joint on a long stalk.
25  She removed every single thing from the box.
26  Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart.
27  Every single ad in the campaign has been a gem.
28  Cigarette smoking is the single most important cause of lung cancer.
29  The way of the time is the single car, never sell FanChengPiao.
30  Many single cell organisms reproduce by splitting in two.