The phrase "a single cry" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe one distinct sound of crying, often conveying a sense of loneliness or urgency.
Example: "In the stillness of the night, there was a single cry that echoed through the empty streets."
Alternatives: "one cry" or "a solitary cry".
There isn't, for instance, a single political speech, a single cry of betrayal.
There are no notes in the margin, not a single cry of "Irony!" It clearly made little impression on me.
There was a single cry of "Help us!" on Friday from a man who watched the president's motorcade roll through a treeless lunar landscape, but hardly the wails of stunned desperation shouted from New Orleans rooftops.
Late in the 1950s - and a far cry from Bethnal Green - a stunningly simple block of flats arose overlooking Green Park, in the West End of London, and gracefully took its place between two classical buildings without a single cry of outrage.
A chorus of voices carries much further than a single cry.
However, Cry2 protein decreases and Cry1 protein increases in response to DNA damage in MEFs expressing only a single Cry paralog (i.e., Cry2 in Cry1−/− MEFs and vice versa; Figure 3B).
He told his collaborators to do a remake of his previous single, "Cry Me a River".
The song was said by Timberlake to be about betrayal and forgiveness, and was described by some music critics as a "sequel" to his 2002 single "Cry Me a River".
According to Artani, the song was written as a response to Timberlake's 2002 single "Cry Me a River".
Although the primary demand throughout the Arab world focuses on the end to tyranny and authoritarian governments, behind this single cry stands a series of social demands about work and life not only to end dependency and poverty but to give power and autonomy to an intelligent, highly capable population.
