How To Use Single In A Sentence

A horizontal merger may enable the new entity to set price and output in the same manner as a single-firm monopolist, with the same consequences for consumer welfare.
My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
Iin this case it uses the atomic unit of digital life - a single screen of data on a Palm, a little brick of reality we spend so much time staring at all day long.
Men with short back and sides dressed in gleaming white singlets and shorts set off downriver while a little coxswain in a cap urges them on.
The interesting thing about a supercomputer with a lot of processors in it is that it is, in some ways, no different to a cluster of computers, communicating through a network, and working together on a single application.

BigshoeBazaar is an online cash and carry wholesaler for hundreds of small shoe stores across the country and is using a single 25,000 square feet warehouse, which will be enhanced to 100,000 square feet in a few months, to service shoe stores as far away as Dimapur in Nagaland and Katihar in Bihar. 'Hyper Growth' Returns To India's E-Commerce Sector
The welfare state was not set up to support vast families or single mothers in inter-generational welfare dependency. We deserve a fair society, but it won't be created by a vendetta against the poor
Other products include extended-shelf-life and aseptic products in single-serve containers sold at convenience stores and multipacks at club stores.
Though stiff-necked and officious, the commanders aren't demonized nor singled out for blame.
Figure 13.2 shows a single memory core in what would have been a large array.
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
Theoretical speed limits for a single processor are being approached.
Some people prefer a single syllable such as "peace", as it is easier to chant. Coping with Stress at Work
Her life is a constant juggling act, coping with career, family, and home life single-handed.
During the last year, two-thirds had remained faithful to a single partner.
Virtually any UNIX or Linux system will compile SISAL code in single processor mode.
The undulating holloway, which has itself sunk through the steady erosion of cartwheels and hooves up to fifteen feet beneath the hillside, translates you from the present into an earlier era when John Nash carved out his woodcuts in English boxwood at the kitchen table under a single lamp-bulb and cultivated the half-wild garden. Wildwood
I'm a 25-year-old single bloke who plays international cricket and tours the world.
The light, a single bulb in an ethnic basket, was suspended from the ceiling and lit just the table.
In the late 1980s Craxi indignantly told Frei that he had never committed a single illegal act. Italy's Dirty Linen
We easily see the united lustre of them, though the light of no one of the single stars could have affected the unassisted eye.
The president, who heads the executive branch, serves for a single six-year term.
Young people from welfare-dependent single-parent families just aren't artful dodgers ready to graduate into serious crime and a moral vacuum.
Here we may be sneering at the devaluation of the single currency, but in Germany they're laughing all the way to the export markets.
… 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
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.
You can hook up two DisplayPort-compatible computers to a single monitor (and keyboard and mouse, obvs) without converters.
So return to him, O thou monk, and say that the single combat shall take place to morrow, for this day we have come off our journey and are aweary; but after rest neither reproach nor blame fear ye. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
But, as soon as that box landed, as soon as he delved in and lifted out his brassie and his spoon and his cleek, Reid did not have a single complaint in the whole wide world.
The listener can be a bottleneck if it is single threaded, and if InterChange Server is not running on a high speed disk subsystem.
There are three large and fully furnished bedrooms - a twin, a double and a single room, so there is lots of space for a family in Ireland on holiday.
The band then romp through three road songs that most people would die for to have in their repertoire, each single one would get people leaping about on the dance floor at a college hop.
Fetuin was resistant to a single O-glycosidase digestion due to the fact that its N-linked and O-linked oligosaccharides are sialylated. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Timothy was agonising over her, when Honor West would have sold her soul for a single kiss from him.
By the hunting season in the following year, not a single survivor of the last group could be found.
Many theories purport to explain growth in terms of a single cause.
If the cells or islets were not synchronized we would observe a flat, averaged signal even though the single cells and islets released insulin in pulses.
The variable stars in the above image are RR Lyrae variables, single stars that pulsate with periods of about half a day.
No individual hero is celebrated in The Four Days, no single villain vilipended.
Every single one of his intended blows was blocked and parried, even when the man tripped and fell backwards.
They move like one solid body, a single organism, a paramecium of men. The Memory Palace
His life hung by a single thread.
This means they reflect consistent production, rather than a single header or back-heel. Times, Sunday Times
a system for negative identification can prevent the use of multiple identities by a single person
Gesenius considers this equivalent with "cohabit;" and from this single passage draws the sense which he assigns to [Hebrew: 'iyzebel] This seems rather far-fetched. Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850
Hi-tech babble from tech whiz-kids will not make an entrepreneur part with a single euro if the entrepreneur is not convinced of the financial return.
Throughout the whole insurrection not asingle imprisoned Communist was shot.
These cells, about 40 m in diameter and termed primary oocytes, are enclosed within a single layer of squamous cells, forming a primordial follicle.
A common arrangement is the positioning of single leaves spirally up the stem, which can sometimes form a striking helical pattern in the shoot apex.
When they start in on showing you a parade of verses so vague that they could mean anything, point out that the word "abortion" does not occur anywhere in that verse and ask them to show you something clearer, a specific reference to abortion or a single use of the word anyplace in the book. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
The Middle East is the world's single most important source of oil.
My neighbour lived on the terrace of his building, in a single room surrounded by cotes for his pigeons.
The title agency reports that the average price for a single-family home is down 4 percent from a year ago, to $$430,019, while through July, the median sold price for a single-family home was down 3 percent from the same time a year ago, to $362,000. [email protected] Aspen Times - Top Stories
To say she was superstitious was an understatement - she would book every single Friday 13 th off work, and any day that looked inauspicious on her horoscope.
The single-sided fish defects of KFC copper alloys applied to lead frame produced by domestic corporation were studied and analyzed by energy spectrum analysis, SEM and metallographic analysis.
The radio you got is encrypted UHF, single-sideband. Red Storm Rising
This focus seems to contradict the book's goal of including Madagascar's diverse peoples without privileging any single group.
I'm Tom, a 57 year-old single dad of a 14 year old boy living now aux alentours de DÃ©troit, that famous French city ! Joyeux - French Word-A-Day
In addition to the unique single vascular system, these new specimens exhibit a distinct six ridged external shape, and an integumentary morphology shared by no other medullosan ovules.
He had witnessed diminutive bison with semicircular horns; animals "of a bluish lead color, about the size of a goat, with a head and beard like him, and a single horn, slightly inclined forward from the perpendicular"; and "a strange amphibious creature, of a spherical form, which rolled with great velocity across the pebbly beach" of a lunar island. Kim Kardashian Fails the P.T. Barnum Test
Normal supplements apply for upgrades and single occupancy. Times, Sunday Times
However, unlike the Buicks of the recent past, the tail lamp is not a single cross-car strip, but simply at each of the corners.
Your eyes glow every single morning, and you're always smiling; you doodle both your names in all the books, even deface public property.
She'd taken to wearing a low-slung leather skirt with a single flap at the front and a pair at the rear, her pouch obvious above it.
Britain is facing a bungalow crisis as the demand for single-storey homes outstrips supply. Times, Sunday Times
For example, synchrotrons, cyclotrons, linear accelerators and interplanetary spacecraft all cost too much for single investigators.
Each evening, before retiring, the careful wife sees that a hocho, or kitchen knife, is laid upon the kitchen floor, and covered with a kanadarai, or brazen wash - basin, on the upturned bottom of which is placed a single straw sandal, of the noiseless sort called zori, also turned upside down. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
Few and far between were the desperate, overeager chat-up lines of some relationship-hungry singles.
Kelvin surmounted this problem by running a single wire along his machine that went around each wheel, so that the combined effects of all wheels would be represented by the motion at the end of the wire.
Although efforts to divert single-use batteries from the waste stream are growing, only a patchwork of regulations currently exists, depending on where you live.
The 7100, which also works as a phone, should appeal to customers who want a single device for calls and e-mail.
The single engine, semi-displacement hull form with deep forefoot and a long deep keel actually more closely resembles Down East-style workboats and cruisers.
The galleon was a long slender ship of extremely low freeboard, rakish rigged as a single-master, both sails and oars being used as The Stamps of Canada
From the dark streets of the city, whether lit by a single streetlamp or brazenly flashing neon signs, to the desolate coastline, where Marlowe is first blackjacked by an unknown assailant, there is no safe haven from disorder and danger. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
Besides, he caused a general visitation to be made of all the land from Quito to Chile, registering the whole population for more than a thousand leagues; and imposed a tribute [_so heavy that no one could be owner of a_ mazorca _of maize, which is their bread for food, nor of a pair of_ usutas, _which are their shoes, nor marry, nor do a single thing without special licence from Tupac Inca. History of the Incas
Chris has set up a website for lone fathers called Single Fathers Online.
The analogical structure and poetical impulse that runs through all of the paired images are even found in the artist's single images such as his Giglio.
The single-incision surgery team at SLU Hospital has already performed a number of gastrointestinal procedures, including appendectomies, gall bladder removals and partial colectomies. Newswise: Latest News
The band's album spawned a string of hit singles.
The light-emitting carbon nanotubes represent the first electrically controlled single-molecule light emitter ever constructed.
But the mood has been building for several years, diffused through a host of single issue campaigns, through numerous signs of dissent and discontentment.
The phone user will then press a single button to put them through to an operator who can connect them with the number they want to dial.
Instead of being given a single engined aircraft as was usual, we were allowed to use one of the latest and fastest new twin-engined bombers!
The elector, incensed at the unsoldierly destruction, challenged the mares-chal to a single combat. Sir Charles Grandison
In addition to the tubules, the epithelial cells may also form nests, cords, single cells, micropapillae, and keratinous cysts.
A single attack of dysentery may be "amoebiasis", which can be cured by a complete course of medication. Find Me A Cure
A single electric light bulb dangled from the ceiling.
The geographical proximity of European countries has permitted fewer channels for terrestrial broadcast services in a single country than elsewhere. Television - policy and culture
It was a large, three story house with a high-pitched roof and a single, cathedral-esque spire.
If you are single, your new love has a gift for turning houses into welcoming homes. The Sun
They wanted us to take out every single word that was even vaguely religious or spiritual.
In combination with the single-classloader model of WAR-deployment this is very handy for even the smallest applications. Sun Bloggers
It would be unfair and wrong of me to single anyone out for errors. The Sun
Heddle's argument is more sound since it involves, in practical terms, one single probability, while Collins's use of the word "improbability" implies multiple values of probabilities that can be used and thus a means to calculate them. David Heddle's take on the Fine-Tuning Argument
I'd never met anyone so ambitious and as single-minded.
Their prices range from 4.20 for a single cigarette to 46 for a kilo of rice. Times, Sunday Times
Once you've collected a hundred or so caddises then you've got enough to go fishing with - and you can often get ten caddis grubs off a single stone.
A microarray consists of single-stranded DNA arranged on a wafer the size of a postage stamp.
There is a single garage with up-and-over door - subject to planning permission, this could be converted to additional accommodation.
Single billing allows consumers to buy both line rental and calls from a phone company other than Eircom.
It is the produce of a single wine harvest in a specific year. Times, Sunday Times
Two departments rely mainly on a single source for their forecasts with perhaps slight alterations to incorporate their own views.
A hallway in a largish single-storey house is a big job, lots of doors and a not inconsiderable amount of wall.
Many simple things, for example picking up an item, activating a switch or initiating a dialog, can be done with a single mouse click.
Her number one single shot her to stardom.
This implies a net magnetic moment less robust than the compass needle of single-celled magnetotactic bacteria.
She says she will resist a single European currency being imposed.
Methods of sealing roof drain pipes in single ply synthetic plastic roof cover systems and roof cover systems employing such drain pipe sealing assemblies
Using software to tie together those desktops into a single ‘grid,’ it assembled, in effect, a supercomputer to run its analytical software.
I went back on the singles circuit even though the break with Vic should have made me cautious.
A general rule of thumb is that the mother should gain 25 to 35 pounds, the weight of a full-term singleton pregnancy, by the end of the second trimester—and then gain an additional 15 to 25 pounds in the last trimester. Mothering Twins
Anybody have five singles?
All these methods assume that there is no recombination, and they rely on the existence of a single simple coalescent history or genealogy for all sites in the locus.
In a typical game of badminton, contestants expend as much energy as in running a mile; singles games give the most vigorous aerobic workout. Times, Sunday Times
This whimsical but dangerous world was depicted in a monumentally epic 15,000 page, single-spaced typed novel, "In the Realms of the Unreal".
David Eckstein blooped a leadoff single and scored from first on a double to right-center by Wilson, who began his career with the Mets in 1998 and is the stepson of former New York outfielder Mookie Wilson. Weaver, Pujols lead Cardinals to verge of pennant
He explained that often recently single people are ashamed of their new status and need help relearning the social scene from a single person's perspective.
The quality of the brickwork is the best that I have ever seen, and not a single brick was disturbed beyond those actually removed. Autobiography
Single-use diapers consume less water than reusables laundered at home, but more than those sent to a commercial diaper service.
Encouraging men to associate babies with bills may not have much impact on single parenthood.
It is for these reasons that singles travel groups have become a common option for guys to find interesting and available women.
In most cases, you subscribe by sending a single email message or by filling out a form on a Web page.
With white lights twinkling around the street-facing windows, a single red rose on our table and the candle lamp glowing between us, our fondue dinner felt almost romantic.
Ultimately, under the Court's decision, a successful plaintiff will have to prove she was singled out for disadvantageous treatment in the workplace.
By analyzing DNA sequences of two single-copy nuclear genes and the genomic AFLP data, we assess the allopolyploid origin of A. collina-4x from ancestors corresponding to A. setacea-2x and A. asplenifolia-2x, and the ongoing backcross introgression between these diploid progenitor and tetraploid progeny lineages. BioMed Central - Latest articles
Kevin Wilkinson's simple metal dinghy, propelled by a single scull from a rowlock at the stern, maintains one of the oldest crossings of the Mersey – now transferred to the canal because the nearby river itself is bridged. Britain's Best Views: the Mersey ferry, Liverpool
The ear ornaments in this collection are geometrically complex in design, combining squares, circles and triangles into single forms.
The botel offers an accommodation in comfortable single and double bedded cabins and apartments.
In this work, the dose distribution produced by a single, rectangular ( "planar") x-ray microbeam was simulated inside the head phantoms which had a cylindrical shape. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Such a power could, more than anything, prove to be the greatest single incentive to cooperate.
It will be a mortal blow if there is a single palm missing on Monte Chiaro or if a single stone has loosened from the town wall. The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel
Twenty-four hours after leaving Waller's, I was sipping a single malt by my own fireside in Hampshire.
We intend to fuse the companies into a single organization.
He was currently single and relatively unattached.
A simple single-storey pavilion is enclosed by folded concertina walls and roof, prompting irresistible comparisons with origami.
In the first stage, that of the simplex, one is caught within the bounds of a single worldview. THE BROKEN GOD
Likewise, a few citation errors in the IPCC report were trumpeted as the final nails in the coffin for the climate movement, despite the fact that not a single investigation even those in which climate skeptics have participated has found any evidence thatscientists "fudged,""manipulated" or "manufactured" data, and the fundamental conclusions of the IPCC still stand. Kelly Rigg: The Movement with a Thousand Faces
Drill the single aggregate particle out of the concrete using a masonry bit and then epoxy or cement a new aggregate particle into place.
Like a diner spearing a morsel of food with the tine of a fork, researchers have used the tip of a microscopic needle to lift a single atom from a surface and then replace it.
My plan was to remove single cells from defined regions of the blastoderm and culture them in adult abdomens surrounded by genetically marked "feeder cells. Eric F. Wieschaus - Autobiography
All the ills of a mighty nation are expressed in a single high-pitched syllable. Times, Sunday Times
Whether in a cup or a cone - single or double dip - and sprinkled with chocolate or rainbow jimmies, ice cream evokes happy memories.
That the enemy had not singled Winfred out to be easy prey was nothing short of pure fortune, especially with the battle still raging before his eyes.
He became known as the architect of the "single-bullet theory" that buttressed the finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. Arlen Specter: Senate Tenure Not Defined By Party Label
She couldn't identify the glue formulae, which were too similar to isolate any single box company. THE SERPENT'S MARK
For being marginally wide at the last turn he lost a single point, but otherwise his three sections of driving were clean.
The single crochet is just like picking up a stitch then binding it off as you go. Yay for google! « Compulsive Knitter
The workers had also complained about the unit's single non-functional fire extinguisher, which was replaced by two new ones.
But Mr. Erwitt also has a gift for clicking off multiple photographs of a single scene, finding and preserving evanescent moments likely to leave the viewer alternately laughing or enrapt. Photo-Op: Head or Tail
In some non-Western cultures, schizophrenic delusions single out the person as spiritually gifted.
Entry is gained from an alley on the side, so narrow that it can at best take a single car.
His round included five birdies and not a single bogey. Times, Sunday Times
Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct chirography, not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen. Les Miserables
The laws of gravity, optics, and acceleration represent averages, not the quirky behavior of each single nanoparticle.
This trio of young ones from Melbourne, Australia makes a primitive, minimalist form of noise rock (vocalist Jonnine Standish's percussion instrument is a single maraca and a floor tom). Boing Boing
The statue was carved out of a single piece of stone.
_ A person who presides at backsword or singlestick, to regulate the game; an umpire: a person who settles disputes. The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire
Commenting on the honour, he said: ‘This has not been done single-handed.’
The Indians of America carry all their products, such as maize, sugar, coffee, etc., in bags made of this leaf, which they know how to arrange so well, that they transport an "arroba," or twenty-five pounds any distance without a single grain escaping, and without any appliance other than a liana or creeper to tie it up with. Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
He added that the ministers have agreed to extend APAST until 2015 to synchronise with the single community target.
Citing sales figures from Home Media Research, an independent marketing firm, the Blu-ray group said that Blu-ray titles outsold HD DVD titles every single week of the year. CES 2008: A third high-def DVD format emerges
She comes across as very different from the stereotypes of the bitter single career woman or the strident female in power.
In the state of Miss. you can use a single shot, "modern firearm" as long as it was made before 1900 during muzzle-loader season. (ie. 45-70, etc.) On The Crossbow Trend
But a rather different picture of the structure of frameworks is also possible, one in which the notion of centrality is a matter of degree and in which no single set of beliefs or principles serves to individuate a framework. Relativism
At the same time, branch-cutting was encouraged to get the tree to grow a single, main trunk.
The application form was a single sheet of paper.
A pair of coots, some moorhens, a little grebe and a single Little Egret rounded out the waterbirds.
The spacey grooves of the title track and the hushed melodies of the second single are pleasant enough, but simply don't resonate as strongly.
Chone Figgins started the eighth inning with a single to left and moved to second when first baseman Mark Teixeira made a nice diving stop on a groundout by Bobby Abreu. One Season
There, in company with a small piece of cheese and a w sad-looking lettuce, was a single can of beer. LET NOT THE DEEP
They point out that the single market and European Union expansion are not being built on a strong social platform.
Every month you send the agency a single payment that is portioned out to each of your creditors until your debts are paid off.
So, if I show a single qualification or exception, then "unmitigated" is incorrect. Sound Politics: A Trifle Overstated, Professor McKay
Through the mind-hopping Ezili, who "swims" through time and space, the novel's multiple strands exist simultaneously, suggesting that all three characters are, in some sense, plural aspects of a single woman. The Little Professor:
The need for a single police service that is capacitated to fight and defeat crime. Address by ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe to NEHAWU Securities Function
His office wall was covered with a single giant map.
They are for a single market, but a politically disunited Europe.
The group let rip with a single from their new album.
Very few museum curators have the opportunity or the budget to be so single-minded, to collect in depth in a highly specialised area.
To deepen his predicament, because he is single, his advisers and confidants are generally undomesticated guys just like him. Where Have The Good Men Gone?
Charney is also determined to make a deeper niche within that niche category, by focusing on more fashionable, more fitted basic T-shirts done in 100 percent combed cotton, 30 single yarn baby ribs and superfine jerseys.
The story about single people being stopped and asked why they are in Telford Central Park has not made the national press yet. Archive 2008-09-01
The blades were usually double-edged and up to 90 cm, or a little over, in length, but early single-edged sabres are also known.
Its presence was announced not by sidewalk canopies and grand spotlit foyers but by a single brass wall-plaque. COMPULSION
A New FAIR survey (Fairness In Accuracy and Reporting) reveals that the America publicprefers asingle-payer national healthcare system 59% - to-32% over a privatized system. Single Payer Health Insurance / Still Ignored By Main Steam Press
The school confers a medal on any student who is not absent a single day.
All the time our idiot in his costly clothing with expensive tackle failed to catch a single fish.
He should set up a monthly direct debit of an amount that he is happy to pay and add ad hoc single premiums. Times, Sunday Times
We first must decide why we choose to accomplish our single task in a particular way. Christianity Today
There was not a single low note or phrase that did not display infallible technique or persuasive musicality.
Businesses locating here don't have to apply to a multitude of agencies for help, because we're the single agency.
Ask the average squash player about the state of hardball singles in the US, and he will say that is probably just a few septuagenarians swatting a red pellet in the basement of some long forgotten club.
A great upfold of fat is piled up against the back of his skull and a single gold bracelet is looped around his right wrist. Memory Wall
It feeds on aphids with a single-minded ferocity. Times, Sunday Times
He believed that the apparent scarcity of land was the result of land speculation and maldistribution that would be remedied by the single tax.
In both types of feather, the barbules that extend from the barb ramus grow from a single layer of cells, called the barbule plate, on the periphery of the barb ridge.
The album opens with a string of potential singles, lined up to be launched like skyrockets.
Annabelle finished the sonnet with one soft rippling sound on the higher notes and then a single dong of two of the lowest.
The phrase suggests a monolithic entity with a single purpose.
No single individual had done so much for the development of the motor vehicle.

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