single-handed

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[ US /ˈsɪŋɡəɫˈhændɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. without help from others
    a single-handed accomplishment
  2. unsupported by other people
ADVERB
  1. without assistance
    I built this house single-handedly
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How To Use single-handed In A Sentence

  • Meanwhile, Mr. Christie is taking the same tact in what he described as a "passionate" relationship with Mr. Sweeney, who has the power to single-handedly block bills. Christie, Sweeney in Standoff Over Funds
  • Her life is a constant juggling act, coping with career, family, and home life single-handed.
  • Commenting on the honour, he said: ‘This has not been done single-handed.’
  • Mr Butler rowed single-handed across the Atlantic in 2001.
  • Because she vanquishes such devitalizing influences single-handedly, however, this heroine's 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
  • But then a bouncer single-handedly pushes them all back, tipping the crowd three steps down the steps. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
  • Secondly, single-handed practices were capable of sophisticated asthma care, provided they were adequately resourced.
  • With dizzying speed, the tiny label almost single-handedly ignited the hip-hop revolution that made rap a household word.
  • Has the world's most pugnacious advocate for the world's poor, a man who almost single-handedly brought the appalling images of famine-struck Africa into the front rooms of millions of Britons, finally gone too far?
  • I'm blessed if I'm going to do cook an 'stooard's work single-handed, an' you lazy rascallion a caulkin 'all over the ship! The Island Treasure
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