Sentence examples for by a single thing from inspiring English sources

Not to be defined by a single thing, he was known for a constant smile and infectious, if offbeat, laugh.

(Exceptions are unexemplifiable properties, e.g., round and square, and properties that can only be exemplified by a single thing, e.g., identical to Socrates).

Make your friend happy by calling without wanting a single thing.

But borrowing to help close our budget deficit, by itself, does not do a single thing to help improve our long-term fiscal condition.

"I think she's somebody... who would be bored by trying to focus on a single thing".

"But didn't you want to be moved in by Christmas?" Kevin does not forget a single thing you have ever said to him and he uses it to cut you when you are at your lowest ebb.

"Really, who in their right mind doesn't know by now that there is not a single thing Taco Bell (or any other Yum! Brands offshoot -- Pizza Hut, KFC) creates in its dank chemical labs that is the slightest bit positive or uplifting to humanity?

For all the dazzle, I didn't feel this work gave me anything I didn't already know, which I've never felt about a single thing I've seen by Mr. Atlas before.

Socrates professes the greatest veneration for such a master: "If I believe that someone is capable of discerning a single thing that is also by nature capable of encompassing many, I follow 'straight behind, in his tracks, as if he were a god'".

Not a single thing".

"A single thing, a single life".