Sentence for only | Use only in a sentence

Use only in a sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use only in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for only.

• Only, were there any natives? (8)
• Only out of pity! (8)
• Henry only smiled. (4)
• If only he were free! (8)
• I only want to breathe. (8)
• I have only heard of it. (10)
• If only Stormer would go away! (8)
• Not proud: only second fiddle. (10)
• He was only sorry for his father. (9)
• I say this only for your friendly ears. (14)
• I showed it not only to him, to my friend. (10)
• You can only hate those who put you there. (10)
• All this was not only pleasant but salutary. (8)
• I have a great deal to do if I could only do it. (14)
• It is the only good thing I know of Barto Rizzo. (10)
• For this reason they are made only an inch thick. (17)
• It is fit for Miss Crawford, and Miss Crawford only. (4)
• There was no space, there was only a point of wavering. (9)
• The pinery had yielded only one hundred in the last year. (4)
• They puffed and puffed, and only made smoke in the middle! (8)
• In this great town she can only nurse her grief against me. (8)
• Only think what an establishment it would be for one of them. (4)
• If for only that, she would have hung to him like his shadow. (10)
• It was only the trunk: there was no head; there were no limbs. (12)
• Black and tan swashbuckling will only make things worse for him. (8)
• Not only is the money a vain thing to me, but an actual hindrance. (12)
• She only let me come this evening because you were going to be here. (8)
• There remains only the necessity for blending into a harmonious whole. (21)
• Only stupidity will suppose that it can be done for the livelier young. (10)
• At first they were given one pound apiece, afterwards only half a pound. (19)
• Chairs in profusion were found only in the houses of the most substantial. (18)
• Did he suppose that he was sending his book into a world of gentlemen only? (16)
• That, as it seems to lay spirits, would be the only gospel worthy of the name. (2)
• A line from you, just a line now and then, only to show me I am not forgotten. (10)
• But as it was, he could only drift, and let all other things take their course. (9)
• If only he had been called Gordon or Scott or Howard or something fairly common! (8)
• And Baryn was walking in the study; he was so busy he had only given her one kiss. (8)
• They were combined only of anger against herself, mortification, and deep concern. (4)
• When she came out of her daze she found that she could only go to the vice-consul. (9)
• His question concerning Morsfield knew its answer, and would only be put under pressure. (10)
• We were becoming lions in Landrecies, who had been only pedlars the night before in Pont. (2)
• She was perhaps the only person in the world who was not just a little bit afraid of Kirsteen. (8)
• In return, he said things which only required a little colouring to be very acceptable to her. (10)
• An intimate knowledge of their character and conduct makes a definite denial only fair to them. (21)
• Second thoughts however whispered to her shrewdness that his arrival could only be by appointment. (10)
• He sat there, paying only moderate attention to a subject on which he was acknowledged an authority. (8)
• What ability or skill the Great Man brought from his province may be only the foundation for real work. (16)
• The night-jar ceased, the sheep were silent; the only sound in the darkness was the bubbling of the stream. (8)
• Mrs. Maynard lay with her hands stretched at her side under the covering, and only her face visible above it. (9)
• In Gonzaga, which only a few days ago belonged to the Austrians, the Italian tricolour is out of every window. (10)
• For ages after the birth of Music, Rhythm and Melody were the only real elements, Rhythm being first recognized. (3)
• And for all their talk of freedom, Lennan could see the volte-face his friends would be making, if they only knew. (8)
• Marino becomes a priest, and only when Alba is old and forsaken does his consolation show her what she has missed. (3)
• They flung back in their chairs and laughed to tears; Ripton thought only of the pleasure he had in their society. (10)
• You must bear in mind that when she sailed away she left behind only fifty of her {44} fellow-countrymen in Quebec. (19)
• She was calmly exposed to his embrace if he had only dared; but he did not dare, and went back to the loose-box wall. (8)
• His cheery courtesy was only disturbed when he became conscious of some sentiment which appeared to him mean or cowardly. (8)
• I believe he felt no finality in charity, but did it because in its provisional way it was the only thing a man could do. (9)
• She slid her hand under his arm; the soft curves of her form brushed him gently, each touch only augmented his ill-humour. (8)
• It doubled her horror, that she should echo the man: but it proved that she was no better than be: only some years younger. (10)
• An American is not able to pronounce as to the verity of the type; I only know that it seems probable and that it is charming. (9)
• Both shores are now quite flat and well cultivated, and on either side frequent picket stations are the only houses in sight. (20)
• When he duly came, he, too, seemed doubly alive to the need for caution, only gazing at Gyp when he could not be seen doing so. (8)
• Only those who have felt how strong the ties of kindred are, as they decrease in number, can tell how this news fell upon my heart. (6)
• The father remained at home altogether; and the son joined them in the intervals of his enterprises, which occurred only too often. (9)
• Only as the great issues of the day are brought home to the average reader is he likely to become keenly interested in their solution. (16)
• She had only felt uneasy when she had to greet and converse with her intended; especially when the London young lady had been present. (10)
• They were only afraid now that Fulkerson might have changed his mind, and they had a wretched day in which they heard nothing from him. (9)
• The self-deluded people flatter themselves that their elections are contests of principles, whereas they are only struggles of interests. (7)
• It was not purely perdition for him, or, rather, it was perdition for only one-half of him, the author-half; for the actor-half it was paradise. (9)

Also see sentences for: barely, merely, purely.

Definition of only:

• only, n’li, adj. single in number or kind: this above all others: alone. | adv. in one manner: for one purpose: singly: merely: barely: entirely. | conj. but: except that. | n. on’liness. (0)

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