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Singular in sentence

343 examples of Singular in a sentence

Well it so happens that we have a singular body.
And what's so frustrating is this is not a singular event; this happens across the developing world.
It's knowing your punchline, your ending, knowing that everything you're saying, from the first sentence to the last, is leading to a singular goal, and ideally confirming some truth that deepens our understandings of who we are as human beings.
RD: Well look, our singular mission is the creation and prevention of strategic surprise.
One of the last places on Earth where you still find people passionate about this idea of a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory, is at this totally singular memory contest.
It's actually not that singular, there are contests held all over the world.
Or God, singular, more recently, is punishing me or judging me.
They also used the first person singular, I, way more than the people that actually stayed there.
That is the one singular gift you may receive if you suffer in any existential way.
It also claims that all human societies develop in a linear progression towards a singular end.
Let us stop telling people and our children there's only one way to govern ourselves and a singular future towards which all societies must evolve.
In my husband's homeland in the highlands of Sulawesi island in eastern Indonesia, there is a community of people that experience death not as a singular event but as a gradual social process.
So many stories emerge from these dynamics of alteration of space, such as "the informal Buddha," which tells the story of a small house that saved itself, it did not travel to Mexico, but it was retrofitted in the end into a Buddhist temple, and in so doing, this small house transforms or mutates from a singular dwelling into a small, or a micro, socioeconomic and cultural infrastructure inside a neighborhood.
So that might be creativity, it might be family, it might be invention, adventure, faith, service, it might be raising corgis, I don't know, your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential.
And it went from a bowl to a singular house to a block to a neighborhood to a cultural district to thinking about the city, and at every point, there were things that I didn't know that I had to learn.
Or is it that the singular should be changed: one "serie," or "serum," just like the singular of "sheep" should be "shoop."
From newspapers, textbooks, conversations, I had learned to speak of countries as if they were eternal, singular, naturally occurring things, but I wondered: to say that I came from a country suggested that the country was an absolute, some fixed point in place in time, a constant thing, but was it?
By mastering these rules, Poe commands the reader’s attention and rewards them with an intense and singular experience – what Poe called the unity of effect.
You're not exactly looking for a singular fact anymore, you're looking for knowledge, which is something way more complicated and delicate.
The idea was to create a complex system in which institutional entities could maintain their own identity, in which they would not be subsumed in a singular volume.
According to this theory, all matter in the universe was once a singular, infinitely dense particle.
And it came into Sierra Leone not as that singular case, but as a tidal wave.
The real hum is singular and original.
[everyone in the vicinity held their breath] "Their" is plural and "everyone," its antecedent, is singular.
To give it legitimacy, copy editors call it "the singular 'their,'" as if calling it singular makes it no longer plural.
By that singular measurement, we are failing.
Every newborn was as singular as a snowflake, a matchless mash-up of biology and ancestry and mystery.
History may be cyclical, but we are singular.
It was appalling because it occurred, because the government denied it, because the US government eventually did nothing more than a slap on the wrist, and appalling because it almost certainly was not a singular event.
It's a street network that allows many routes instead of singular routes and provides many kinds of streets instead of just one.
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