Single-word Sentence Examples

The single word was terse and the eyes reflected sincerity.

For a moment he didn't respond, and finally he answered with a single word.

His single word was sharp enough to make her jerk.

The virtues of a scribe are honesty and care (or in a single word fidelity) and intelligence.

Emphasis upon a single word is illustrated by Gal.

A large party pronounced the style perfect, so absolutely perfect that in some essays it would be impossible for the writer himself to alter a single word for the better.

But the opposite view, that not a single word in the book can lay claim to the authorship of Zoroaster, also appears on closer study too sweeping.

It should be a single word or a very short simple phrase.

A child may practice saying a single word fluently and then gradually add more words, slowly increasing the amount and difficulty of speech that can be mastered without stuttering.

Often any feedback will be nothing more than a terse nod or single word.

The wide range of emotions you can express add a lot of depth to the community and allow you to express ideas without typing a single word.

This yields the single word "Trinq," which the attendant priestess declares to be the most gracious and intelligible she has ever heard from it.

Neither the attachment to the religious forms of Judaism, which we are informed was characteristic of James, nor that personal relation to the Lord which gave him his supreme distinction are indicated by so much as a single word.

We present an experimental investigation of the spoken single word production of two patients with non-fluent progressive aphasia.

President Harper more than once stated most categorically that contrary to prevalent beliefs no donor of funds to the university " has ever (1902) by a single word or act indicated his dissatisfaction with the instruction given to students in the university, or with the public expression of opinion made by any officer of the university "; and certainly so far as the public press reveals, no other university of the country has had so many professors who have in various lines, including economics, expressed radical views in public.

The verse remains a crux inter pretum, and no exegesis hitherto given can be deemed thoroughly satisfactory; but the interpretation of the whole book must not be made to hinge on a single word in a verse which might be altogether removed without affecting the general course of the prophet's argument.

The Emperor, though he met him twice, did not favor him with a single word.

Not by a single word had Nicholas alluded to the fact that Prince Andrew's relations with Natasha might, if he recovered, be renewed, but Princess Mary saw by his face that he knew and thought of this.

He did not miss a single word he uttered, and would afterwards, with Dessalles or by himself, recall and reconsider the meaning of everything Pierre had said.

Select a single word command such as "potty" and repeat it once you arrive with your pup in that area.

The single word spoken by Davis held a tone that silenced Royce like a slap to the mouth.

A single word comes to mind.

The manner of writing up and down instead of backwards and forwards across the stone is obviously appropriate to a surface which is of considerable length, but comparatively narrow, a connected sense being thus much easier to observe than in writing across a narrow surface where, as in the gravestones of Melos, three lines are required for a single word.

The single word was a combined expression of disgust and distress.

The synonyms are often poetic, evocations of the many spirits resident within a single word.

The demand was politely but firmly refused, and Bismarck, judging that the moment had come for applying the match to the powder magazine, published an edited version of the telegram from the king describing the episode, a version which without the addition of a single word turned the refusal into an insult.

The regimental commander ran forward on each such occasion, fearing to miss a single word of the commander-in-chief's regarding the regiment.

Online translators don't take into account dialect or slang, although language dictionaries can give you single-word translations.

If you could only use a single word to describe the entire Beach Bunny Swimwear collection, it would be "feminine".