Sentence for single | Use single in a sentence

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• Every single thing. (9)
• A single blow had done it. (10)
• There was just the single egg. (8)
• A single loud bang on the door. (8)
• I had not a single idea ready for delivery. (10)
• That single sound was followed by utter silence. (8)
• It is as easy to dodge a volley as a single shot. (1)
• Not a single hinge of existence is heard to creak. (10)
• Not a single hinge of existence is heard to creak. (22)
• Where one single nook of shelter and escape from them! (10)
• It is, therefore, disgracefully unjust to single him out. (22)
• A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. (4)
• Was it conceivable that we could go back to Riversley single? (10)
• There is not one single demand on this paper that we will grant. (8)
• Not a day of her, not an hour, not a single look had been his own. (10)
• The whole somber incident is unrelieved by a single gleam of light. (7)
• Pippin drove him home at a furious pace, not uttering a single word. (8)
• True, a single rifle-shot might drop him and be no great disclosure. (1)
• She could be quite as true to her vocation as if she remained single. (9)
• A single reporter may enter it, and so may an association of reporters. (16)
• Mrs. Verrian had thought of generalizing, but she seized a single point. (9)
• Another name given to this instrument from its single string is Monochord. (3)
• She scribbled a single line in receipt of the letter and signed her initials. (10)
• But, as it is, the disappointment is single, and, I trust, will not be lasting. (4)
• Georgiana reluctantly consented to have her argument attached to a single person. (10)
• The strides forward seem solely in the employment of more persons in a single act. (21)
• As far as he could see, not a single piece of furniture was worth a five-pound note. (8)
• A single empty chair, with a book turned face downward, stood outside an open window. (8)
• The hour was near nine in the evening; the room was dimly lighted by a single candle. (1)
• And the first desideratum in a headline is that it deal with a single and capital fact. (16)
• No explanation was added; a single sentence executed the work, and in the third person. (10)
• And could we carry our selfish point with you, we should leave it without a single regret. (4)
• Cyril was lost, she could not single him out, all blurred among those thousand other shapes. (8)
• The old familiar boots, no longer in dignified isolation, were huddled in the single window. (8)
• Over one corner of the sorry ruin, a single patch of roof still clung, but the rest was open. (8)
• Vernon was brief, Corney had not let fly a single anecdote, he said, and lighted his candle. (10)
• It was a recitation on musical intervals for a single voice accompanied by but one instrument. (3)
• Not a single allusion had they made to the wedding-presents after leaving the luncheon-table. (10)
• That letter was the single clear memory he had of the time between her going and his following. (8)
• Presently the long, rich, single notes cut the air, and melted to their glad delicious chuckle. (10)
• A single neighbouring squire and magistrate, by name Trusham, had been bidden, to make numbers equal. (8)
• Within that defile, barely broad enough for a single gun, were piled the wrecks of no fewer than four. (1)
• Has there been a single utterance of any note which has not poured the balm of those words into our ears? (8)
• It fitted, and he was in a gas-lighted passage, with an oil-clothed floor, and a single door to his left. (8)
• He is a born British subject, yet he has never succeeded in persuading a single official of his nationality. (2)
• And having thus in a single word, somewhat to his own astonishment, described his brother, he held out his hand. (8)
• Believe me the single word of Langford is not of such potent intelligence as to supersede the necessity of more. (4)
• But I can hardly help laughing sometimes when I think how a single step from my hermitage takes me into Babylon. (14)
• She could only fancy she did; and if she did, it meant that Miss Middleton thought her wise in remaining single. (10)
• The pure dome of the sky was unbroken by a single cloud, but the wind came tearing up the stream like a cyclone. (20)
• And suddenly he perceived that they had made a complete circuit of the Square garden without speaking a single word. (8)
• Other pianists have surpassed him in single qualities, but no one has united in so stupendous fashion as much as he. (3)
• Instead of a regimental band, which I had supposed summoned, a single corporal ran out the barracks, touching his cap. (9)
• The lover took the single kiss he had come for, was led through the chamber, and passed unchallenged into the street. (10)
• But few feelings are single on this globe, and junction of sentiments need not imply unity in our yeasty compositions. (10)
• After this the baptisms of no more offspring were to be found anywhere, as if that single mind had encountered opposition. (8)
• No individual could bear the sight of such a crime, and no suffering man could be appeased by a single victim to atone for it. (10)
• By this time the fire on the hearth, at which she had cooked supper, had burned out and the room was lighted by a single candle. (1)
• He had flown by way of Bordeaux, and first landed in America, bare-headed and barefoot, and with a single halfpenny in his pocket. (2)
• In all the ancient American political literature we look in vain for a single utterance of truth and reason regarding these matters. (7)
• By the year 1688 as many as 1100 vessels had in a single season anchored in the Quebec roadstead, laden with every kind of merchandise. (19)
• He did not, indeed, make one impression upon me, but a thousand impressions, which I should seek in vain to embody in a single presentment. (9)
• Then, as now, gootles were made by a single concern having a great capital invested and an immense plant, and employing an army of workmen. (7)
• In 1861, 214 English sailing-vessels and 35 steamers came to the port of Sulina, and in 1889, 842 steamers and not a single sailing-vessel. (20)
• This morning the door-posts up and down my corridor showed not a single pair of trousers; not a pair of boots flattered the lonely doormats. (9)
• The effect of so enormously increasing the already disproportionate number of workers in a single generation could be no other than disastrous. (7)
• They tell us that discord, though discord, alone, Can be harmony when the notes properly fit: Am I judging all things from a single false tone? (10)
• We are such devotees of the special attractions offered from time to time that we do not miss a single balloon ascension or pyrotechnic display. (9)
• A consequent tone variety made it possible to emphasize a single voice in this way, while the accompanying harmonies could be kept well in the background. (3)

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