Sentence examples for but one thought from inspiring English sources

By John Hollander The New Yorker, February 28 , 1983P. 38 The pine with but one thought regards the water against View Article By Atul Gawande By Anthony Lane By Lidija Haas By John Cassidy.

I CAN think of plenty of ways to spend that $5.6 billion, but one thought comes most to mind -- and it's a necessity that is all too often ignored -- athletic and recreational facilities for the city's 1.1 million children.

In White Fang, London works hard to show how different his dog is to man ("But the cub did not think in man-fashion. He did not look at things with wide vision. He was single-purposed, and entertained but one thought or desire at a time").

The enormous crocodile has but one thought on its mind: to eat as many children as he can via the adoption of various, not-quite-impenetrable disguises.

Twenty-six allricans, all but one thought to be C.I.A. agents, are on trial in absentia.

No players from the Mets organization were named to the United States Olympic team Wednesday, but one thought he had been.

"We were across from Central Park," Mr. Scoppetta said, "but no one thought of taking us there".

He may have felt horrified at the national tragedy, and scared, and grateful to be alive, but only one thought registered: "This is inconvenient".

This particular cave painting was discovered in the 1950s, but no one thought of using a newer uranium-thorium method to date the "popcorn -like calcium carbonate on the mural's surface until now.

All this was fascinating, but I had one thought as Doherty toured the world in a series of scruffy, ill-pressed outfits, paying scant attention to personal grooming.

He had one thought then, and one thought only: Junie.