How To Use Only In A Sentence

You think Spielberg would only have a rattletrap third-rate spaceship like the Millennium Falcon to ensure his survival? Does George Lucas think the world will end in 2012?
The only seriously bad bit is that you become less agile and less strong. Times, Sunday Times
Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
Chlorophyll is only one of several pigments found in plants, but it is by far the most important.
As a book about a nonoperational aircraft, Valkyrie will probably attract only a limited audience within the Air Force community.

One can only guess at the research and detective work that has gone into the bald details recorded for each piece.
Petanque may be the only sport inspired by a disability - that of Jules LeNoir, who in 1910 was a dedicated player of boules, a French game much like bocce ball.
Once you got into the stadium, there were no seats, only grassy banks.
We cannot support all the shops we have already, so a few more very expensive units can only remain empty and unused.
The baby was born with a heart problem and only survived for a few hours.
Only a few minutes had gone when the Welshman flung in an inviting right-foot cross to the back post.
The Huilloc men are only a little taller than their womenfolk, with broad chests, powerful shoulders and heavily muscled legs.
There are only a couple of days left in Graeme's Fantasy Book Review's Giveaway for one of three copies of Orson Scott Card's new release, Hidden Empire. Book Contest Links ... more than a few
Last night, a steady stream of people arrived at the evacuation centre in Brisbane's showground, only a few minutes' drive from the swollen river. Brisbane residents flee homes as floodwaters rise
Only a few people close to me have had anything happen. Everyday Violence
It was only a couple of minutes after his toe-curling DJ'ing started that I gave up and turned over.
Not only by the immense number of adherents that were won to his views during his lifetime, but also by the literary productions he left behind him, Tsong K'aba's influence has been great during the last five centuries of Tibetan history. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
The only people she would be able to talk to in English would be Ovidiu, and marginally to Rica with the broken language he was still trying to learn.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating, people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
And when he knelt he found her squatting, in the far corner underneath, and in the slatted dark, saw only her eyes, wide and white. Gabbie Zombie
Keeping specific goals and metrics for testing in mind not only helps track status and results, but also avoids the last-second scramble to pull together necessary reports.
Last year there was only me and AA who were 1st years, plus AA is heaps older and I didn't know her at all.
That not only means that more information can be crunched at once, but these chips can also handle more complex instructions.
Stoke's summer signing from Wolves could only produce a tame shot that went into the ground. The Sun
We all are monoplane wing angel, only then hugs, can soar.
The remote desert area is accessible only by helicopter.
I blame it all on becca who called me in the middle of the night to talk to me all about how the two best friends names are Kate and Becca and that the main character lives in apartment 601 as my address and other kooky details that i have been trying to forget nightly since i saw that movie, And then every sound is that kid coming out of the television and im only writing about it now in order to expunge as i fear she will grab hold of my foot from under the desk and eat me or turn me into something decomposing or whatever it is she does. I-claudius Diary Entry
Instead, the thin sandy developments defining the sequence boundaries suggest sandy sabkhas and sand sheets supplied by this undersaturated wind system and only preserved as a consequence of renewed lake-level rise.
The next day Tredias' arm was very nearly healed and needed only the support of a sling.
There was no mail coach -- no driver in scarlet -- no mail guard -- no passengers, but only a ramshackle iron mail cart -- a "postboy" as driver and carrying no arms. The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time
Such aggregations not only promote transmission of micro-organisms but through repeated exposure allow large doses of these.
For Brown, visiting Gill at South Fork is a six-hour schlep that he's managed only three times.
Stealing away, (whence, I suppose, the ironical phrase of trusty Trojan to this day,) like a thief — pretendedly indeed at the command of the gods; but could that be, when the errand he went upon was to rob other princes, not only of their dominions, but of their lives? — Clarissa Harlowe
While the alpine end of the sport needs only cold weather to produce skiable terrain, cross-country must have snow.
It is not only our senses, but our very intuitive faculties that cease to provide us with the necessary adaptive knowledge.
Critics argue it was only Lottery money and government cash that prevented the Games from being a financial disaster.
Cousin Molle goes to Cambridge and the niece is the only visitor. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
I can find no legitimate references to the use of metallic, inorganic, or organic silver compounds as a sanitizer, disinfectant, or sterilizing agent. quaternary ammonium chloride compounds - Mixtures of compounds such as alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride, didecyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, dioctyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, and octyl decyl dimethyl ammonium chloride are very commonly used as surface sanitizer; if you look at your household cleaners that claim disinfecting properties, there's a high percentage chance that you'll find a "quat". Question ;Microdyne
Despite their superficial similarity, submersion of minorities in English-only programs in the USA and Canadian immersion programs are different and they lead to different results.
Another mystery surrounds the only example of body armour to be found among the primates.
Like Gideon, her mother only existed in scraps of moments, in colors and sound, all disconnected and dissonant.
Heat will only leave the container by radiation, convection and conduction if the temperature of the container is higher than the surroundings.
De Forest had only one seat to his buggy, and it was rather irksome to be conveying two ladies around all the time. The Expressman and the Detective
It had been always understood, by watchful politicians, that the Repeal agitation slumbered only until the reinstalment of a Conservative administration. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
Mao was your typical twentieth century despot, and only moon-eyed Communists would beg to differ. Chairman Mao in a Dress Not Funny?
Ray was knocking them down one by one, unlike his tragic ancestor who only knocked himself down.
Some people might object to the word, and say that he only "snickered," or made faces. Jarwin and Cuffy
Only a very strong, perhaps only a globally dominant, power can sustain informal empire in the long run.
Absolute property right can only guarantee liberty in form.
A voice drifted down through the hatch above our heads, ‘I'm amazed,’ it said. ‘Only three people have chundered so far.’
So the lands of the dismembered Yugoslav state became not only the scene of Europe's greatest resistance struggle, but also one of its bloodiest civil wars.
Medium security levels can enter and delete data and low security levels can only view data.
I first learned about cassowaries when I was at the School for Field Studies SFS Center for Rainforest Studies in Fall of 1990 as a college student, and was fascinated that they're the only bird that can "scarify" certain rainforest seeds. Archive 2008-07-01
And some soil-based diseases not only cause physical symptoms, but create cognitive impairment too, crippling a child's long-term potential. Blake Mycoskie: Today, TOMS Asks You to Go 'One Day Without Shoes'
Only three people, including a policeman, will be privy to the facts.
I even dragged my acrophobic mother up mountains in the Auvergne, only to leave her quivering halfway up while I persevered alone to the top.
The imbalance in the number of girls and boys of marriageable age is not the only cause of these social changes, and it will not persist for long.
It has made it far harder for determined and powerful figures to control how people see events and that can only be a good thing.
Such an approach not only allows the authors to discuss the work from many different angles, but allows them to do so without implying that the practical quandaries in The Angel of History can be reduced to a simple meaning.
The only constant linking it all is that it qualifies as, for lack of a better term, neat.
But our physiognomy is only a part of the equation. Men's brains, women's brains
The money is commonly laundered via cash deposits to friends or family members' bank accounts and is quickly withdrawn to be paid to the gang leaders. Times, Sunday Times
Often he found her quietly weeping, but they were never tears of accusation; only tears of regret.
It should also be noted that there are no contact-period materials from the Johnson site and that the only historic materials recovered date to the nineteenth century and did not occur in the provenances associated with the figurines.
However, the Seismosaurus fossil found with the most gastroliths held only 15 kg of stones, the largest no bigger than a grapefruit.
This is not by any means the only instance of financial incompetence on the part of our various Scottish ancestors, nor indeed of the tendency to resort to violence, and those patterns offer surprisingly little reassurance from the genetic standpoint. Archive 2009-03-01
In chronic smoldering cases, inflammatory bowel disease can be misdiagnosed, and treatment with steroids only exacerbates the infection.
This is the only country in Europe to deny cancer screening to its citizens.
I had always envisioned a sort of heroic rescue, but those were only dreams.
The cordonnet of Alençon is the only one which has horsehair for its foundation. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework
The unpleasant truth is that hiding behind private ownership only hides the fall in value from people who choose not to look.
Andrews assumes that the lyric poet's freedom to dissent is only the freedom to say ‘yes’ to the American ideology - individualism.
The only use he serves as a coach is that his nose just about crosses the touchline when he's sat in the dugout, so there's every chance he'll be able to trip up a tricky winger with his conk.
First, you should equip yourself with the knowledge you can acquire. Only thus can you be confident of yourself.
The man won his year-long battle to clear his name only after a bank worker was arrested for fraud. Times, Sunday Times
Asked about parents who choose not to vaccinate their children against HPV, the virologist Nathan Wolfe, author of the new book "The Viral Storm," told me: "Basically the decision to not vaccinate risks not only cancer for their kids but cancer for anyone their kids have sex with. The New Prudery
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth. George Washington
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, but often saintlier than fiction. The New Jerusalem
Her father provided a motivation in her not only to succeed but to triumph. Times, Sunday Times
Today, you can not only take a virtual spin in an Express LT - you can also drive the real thing.
‘I only wish farmers could be fully compensated for the incompetence, inefficiency and neglect of the Department over which Mrs Beckett presides,’ he said.
Ruling was in a sense a job, a calling, the only thing he knew how to do and could conceive of doing.
The only thing I was thinking at the time was what a bloody bum deal I was getting.
They wanted me to bring my US passport, and Mexican Visa, but instead of two black and white infantil size photos, they wanted color photos here in Morelos and they only wanted a color copy of the pages in my passport and FM3 visa showing my photo and the page of the FM3 visa that I had then showing the prorrogas (renewals) to verify who I am and that I live here legally. Page 2
In the research the hand was linked to the amputee's arm only by wire and actually lay on a nearby surface. Times, Sunday Times
Christopher Rees is another self-taught value investor but runs a concentrated portfolio of only ten stocks; his average annual return for the last decade is 24%. Tap Your Inner Buffett
It's a poor teacher who can only control the class by roaring at the children.
The only realistic way is to raise Britain's laggard productivity performance.
From the garden, no other property is visible and the only sound is that of birdsong.
The years of youth are given to us only once by the Creator, to be treasured while possessed.
‘We have to win,’ the Scotland coach affirms with a bluffness which only Australians can pull off.
The only cloud on the immediate horizon is raising a mortgage - especially if you are a first time buyer.
He claimed that the Chief of the USAR at the time, told him that he didn't need to re-enlist (he had only accrued two good years for retirement in the 4 years he was back on the books) and to keep singing for the troops. Heroes or Villains?
The only time it was ever used was when my father had important people dining with him for business.
The pre-selected wagers will go into straight and exacta pools only.
The youth he rescued, known only as a Mr Thorpe, was treated in the casualty department at Middlesbrough General.
However, the emphasis on structural constraints and formal controls provides only a partial view.
Make sure you cut holes for your eyes to peer out of or a hole at the top for your your head, but for the sake of moveability, make sure the box only comes down to your knees or waist. Somewhat quick and cheap geek costumes for Halloween
Rest assured that you are not the only one who is confused. Times, Sunday Times
He may be intense and sometimes untactful on an issue you are debating, but that will only be on that ANC Daily News Briefing
Oh, only a young lord who has lived his whole life as a ne'er-do-well. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
When his friends called him a coward his resolve was only hardened. Times, Sunday Times
Naturally, her husband was very pleased and only too happy to oblige with the ‘work.’
I lived only two blocks from high school and grammar school, and there were baseball diamonds and football fields.
A belief in it is not only not naïve; it is the essential precondition for civilized society, and our best defense against the arbitrary use of power.
The political analyst Nikolai Petrov has described Mr. Putin's predicament using the chess term "zugzwang," in which a player sees only moves that will damage his position, and yet does not have the option of passing. NYT > Home Page
Long before the statue was unearthed, the natural process of patination had caused the formation of the red cuprite, blue azurite and green malachite commonly found in ancient bronzes. Apollo Deconstructed
The decades of peace and accumulation of wealth in the west have not only been arguably bought at the expense of the rest of the world - but also of ourselves.
My disorganization was a chaotic river that I waded through every day, somehow coming out the other end dry only due to the comparatively placid pace of being a Londoner. Ed Zitron: Ride the Whirlwind: Making a New York Minute Last
I should have been side by side with you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the cover of my dreadful pit. Les Miserables
Civilisation as we know it today can only lead to an increasingly unjust, and inequitable, distribution of power across the globe.
She'd forgotten that for the next few weeks she'd be sleeping only feet away from the man she'd mistakenly raged at earlier.
… Others can only be identified with a microscope, such as the majority of protozoa [single-celled animals], certain blood filariae [small larvae of pathogen parasites in the blood vessels], and the trichinae. Modern Science in the Bible
In this way, the Academy's representation of modernist pieces was only part of the battle.
Among the flowers most commonly represented are roses, lilies, fleurs-de-lis, and sunflowers.
It features a group of con artists with a modicum of honour: they only steal from the greedy and the morally corrupt.
The situation reminds of other art items like netsuke or tsuba in the 50s when these items where collected only by a small minority.
The first followed a head on collision with a bus, where she had to be cut out of the car and fortunately her only injury was severe whiplash.
Distilled in the old Irish tradition this pure pot still single malt whiskey uses only the most natural Irish ingredients of barley and fresh spring water.
Only later did it become apparent that the flight had also been on anti-piracy patrol.
It was only in hospital that he discovered bone protruding through his skin. Times, Sunday Times
Paul took up the post of County Accountant in the mid-Seventies, leaving for a short spell, only to return to take up the post of Finance Officer.
To allow only views acceptable to the government of the day is the path to centralised conformity and censorship. Times, Sunday Times
Every so often a rabbit would make a desperate, lung-bursting bid for freedom, only to provide an easy target for the twelve-bores.
The only way to make it last is to turn it into cheese, yoghurt or quark.
With no requalifying for the Ryder Cup, no wild-card picks and no apparent animosity, the only thing to talk about has been how poorly many of the team members are playing.
But although there was a scare with my first sample being clear, as we'd only just arrived, my second proved that I, along with the entire Sunday Herald table, was completely ratted and therefore allowed to keep the trophy.
Cancer of various organs, not only the lung, but also the larynx, bladder and oesophagus.
She added that the annual Halloween celebrations will see bonfires on the area, only making things worse than they already are.
Only Bartoli could have made best-selling albums out of obscure arias by Scarlatti, Vivaldi and Gluck.
They argue that this is the only way in which the Tories can recover lost support.
This time she must seem the forlorn victim, with no resources of sinew or cunning to save her - only the kindness of strangers.
The only recent changes have been trees blowing down and the repair of thatched roofs. Times, Sunday Times
It's the sort of thing I tend to call a batshit story, and though this term has not caught on as the latest literary, uh, movement, it's the only label that seems to fit so much of the sort of writing I love. Archive 2005-12-01
If the Democrats manage to lose the seat in November, they might consider blaming an election system that is quite literally designed to stimy "majority rule" save in races where there are only two candidates. Balkinization
The sonnet's chief English importers were Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 - 42) and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1515 - 47), who had generally translated their Italian originals not only into English but into a different shape of sonnet.
In addition to the usual bug fixes, the update is said to add not only a web browser and an email program, but a word processor and a spreadsheet.
The hereditary principle is only as good as heredity's next spin of the wheel.
When the evictors arrived at one home they found only a bedridden woman, Margaret Mackay, who was almost 100 years old.
Wielding his blade like a master painter, his palette holds only one colour, and that is crimson.
only a handful of responses were received
‘This is evident in a number of markets where rents are falling, but yields are not only holding steady, but in most instances hardening,’ he said.
If only the local toerags sitting opposite knew what thrills these cardboard tubes contained.
The optimized compiler has a blended mode option for applications that will run on 80486 and Pentium boxes as well as a Pentium-only mode.
Holography not only maps the intensities of the light, as do normal diffraction patterns, it also encodes information about the phases of the light that is otherwise intrinsically lost.
The lack of a back-and-forth "us-verus-Nasdaq" makes it hard to imagine what the exchanges, and the fees, will look like, said Neil Catania , co-founder of agency-only brokerage firm MND Partners, located on the NYSE floor. Stock Traders Fear Fee Hit
Call me a moon-eyed dreamer: I still believe the work of the serious writer will be recognized for what it is, whether it takes place examples chosen only for clarity and expediency in Ambergris, or 351 West 52 St New York City Apt # D RIGHT NOW, dammit. Evil Monkey on Fantasy
I duly surrendered my little device, only to feel a sudden pang of panic on my way back to my seat. Times, Sunday Times
In the days of yore when beer in pubs was served only in pints or quarts, the serving wenches had to keep mental tabs on who drank pints and who drank quarts to get it right when collecting payment.
Not only was his analysis absolutely on target, he was tremendously self-assured, well spoken and telegenic.
Liqueurs commonly made this way include triple sec, cassis, Cointreau, Grand Mariner and so forth.
We'd be only too happy to accept your invitation.
I'm sure this will sound all finger waggy, but I say it only out of concern for your safety. Blog: The Secret to Life
Greg Wood is one of only 150 men and women in this country to devote themselves to the welfare of our horses' gnashers.
The 60 mostly uninhabited islands which comprise the group lie within an area only 20 miles square.
Punters and racegoers have felt only a sense of deprivation through the snow and ice of recent weeks. Times, Sunday Times
Cultural practices have survived or fallen only in part because of their effect on the strength of the group, and those which have survived are usually burdened with unnecessary impedimenta.
So far, so good, so much more credible—and spoiled only slightly by the blandishment that those that fail should present plans for recapitalization "as swiftly as possible. Is This the End of the Beginning for the Euro Crisis?
There is only one port along this rocky coast.
This role of film as an instance of mass media is opposed to that of Adorno, who could only conceptualise the mass media as a means of stupefying the masses in a capitalist society.
We catered for forty but only twenty came.
And so it remains reasonably fresh in 2003, if only as a result of its continuing underexposure. Globe and Mail
A wife is not to be chosen by the eye only.
Love for others, concern for justice and the poor are not so much a question of social morals as the expression of a sacramental conception of Christian morality because, through priestly ministry, the spiritual sacrifice of all the faithful is accomplished, in union with the sacrifice of Christ, the only mediator. Pope on the Essential Elements of Priestly Ministry
Despite the apparent commonness of blonde hair, which accounts for a third of British women, Tobin said only about 3% were naturally blonde.
The judge was making the point that the Pledge, in its current incarnation, is only about 50 – 60 years old and that the language “under God” was inserted at a particular time in response to concerns of that time and that the Pledge is not some sacrosanct invocation from the founders. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin
Ochre and red rippled across the male's mantle, in the delicate, complex traceries of which only males were capable.
I'm looking at it afresh and applying my findings not only to our bespoke tailoring but to the ready-to-wear collection. Times, Sunday Times
He went on to scarify the same companies for being only interested in putting on the tried and the tested to the exclusion of modern works by Irish writers and composers.
If you hit him back, you'll only be descending to his level.
Apart from a pale yellow primula, snowdrops are the only flowers in the front garden but despite this there is plenty of other interest.
Unless these conditions are fulfilled, we consider any assistance given to the artels and the co-operatives not only useless, but definitely harmful.
The series in fact comprises only two: one in the form of a monk's habit and cowl, and one depicting a pin-striped business suit and tie.
It is a cruel fashion irony, but a shapeless dress looks good only on a shapely body. Times, Sunday Times
As the last country in the world to abolish slavery, only in 1888, temporary slavery due to indebtedness and forced labour has continued and been combated regularly by Government in isolated regions, where the arms of the justice system face a demographic challenge. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Fighting contemporary slavery
The UK already grants work visas for industries with labour shortages but these are required only for non-EU citizens. Times, Sunday Times
In its favour, there is some genuine tension in the car chase sequences, and the marauding gangs of children seem not only authentic but realistically threatening.
Any instrument of knowledge proving the non-existence of consciousness, could do so only by making consciousness its object -- 'this is consciousness'; but consciousness, as being self-established, does not admit of that objectivation which is implied in the word 'this,' and hence its previous non-existence cannot be proved by anything lying outside itself. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
I don't mind when it rains but I hate that thin film drizzle that seems only to be in the air but manages to soak you in next to no time.
The only trouble is we won't be here then.
We only walked for four hours today because of the intense heat and steep incline. The Sun
She described at last with extraordinary clearness, which is so often seen, though only for a moment, in such overwrought states, how Ivan had been nearly driven out of his mind during the last two months trying to save “the monster and murderer,” his brother. The Brothers Karamazov
In the next level of technique not only does the nage initiate action to draw out uke's movement, but he uses the energy of his action to lead the response given him by uke.
The room was an attic, ten feet square, lighted only by a skylight, its sole furniture a narrow iron bedstead, a chair, and a washhand-stand with one game leg. Down and Out in Paris and London
He comments that a patient might talk of a "shiner" whereas a doctor (holy of holies) would speak of a "periorbital ecchymosis," which is true only if you could imagine a doctor referring to cephalalgia instead of a headache or odontalgia instead of a toothache. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 1
I quickly racked my brain for the answer, only to turn up with nothing but a blank.
Or “incurve,” a term commonly used as the nineteenth century became the twentieth. The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
Supposedly olive oil is the only oil that can be shampooed out. Head Lice and Shame « Colleen Anderson
Granted, we have reams of remote sensing data from that first investigation, including the information from the detailed dissection of the spider biot done by Dr. Laura Ernst. But the cosmonauts brought home only one artifact, a tiny piece of some kind of biomechanical flower whose physical characteristics had already irreversibly changed before any of its mysteries could be understood, We have nothing else in the way of souvenirs from that first excursion. Rama Revisited
She could only nod, because her mouth was full.
Present-day performers commonly adopt practices of earlier periods whether or not they use historically accurate instruments.
We get only very little rain during the South West monsoon.
Instead, the problems of the world are transplanted into the realm of attitude and behaviour; as though, if people only think right, that will make all be right with the world.
Infused then with the enlightenment only a brutal smackdown from a celestial being can provide, Jacob sets out to make peace with his brother, no matter the cost.
We decided to only soften the water that would be heated, since there were no other quality issues with hardness in the cold tap water.
This dominion not only extends over the open seas, but also over all creeks, arms of the sea, havens, ports, and tide-rivers, as far as the reach of the tide, around the coasts of the kingdom.
So far we can answer this question only for membership on the review and appeals board. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
By 1939, it had 30 British bakeries and introduced low-price tea biscuits, previously a luxury only afforded by the middle classes.
The opposition Congress Party won only 51 seats, two less than in 1998 and 12 less than its numbers prior to the assembly's dissolution in July.
Only two men could be seen on her deck, one at the tiller and one amidships to work the sail.

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