Sentence examples for lone world from inspiring English sources

Late in Johnson's career, the Senators brought home the capital's lone World Series championship.

PHILADELPHIA — Reminders of the Phillies' lone World Series championship are positioned throughout Citizens Bank Park.

Cuba's lone World Cup appearance, in 1938, ended in a humiliating 8-0 loss to Sweden in the quarterfinals.

Since that lone World Cup appearance in Mexico, Canada has been leapfrogged by Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean and, of course, the United States.

It includes all seven games of the Brooklyn Dodgers' lone World Series championship in 1955, Jim Brown's exploits for Syracuse in the 1957 Cotton Bowl and Sandy Koufax's first no-hitter in 1962.

Even when they won their lone World Cup — at home, in 1998 — they did it with a coach, Aimé Jacquet, who was heavily criticized much of the way for his supposed tactical and leadership deficiencies.

Slingshotted out of their planetary system by the gravity of a bigger planet, these lone worlds zoom far from their parent suns, slowly freezing in the cold of outer space.

Even without Suarez, forwards Diego Forlan, an all-tournament selection in the last World Cup, and Edinson Cavani of Paris Saint-Germain probably give Uruguay enough firepower to beat a young, rebuilding England team whose lone world-class star is Wayne Rooney.

That was after Ghana, lone African World Cup survivor, booted the United States out, a victory dedicated by its players to Africa, Nelson Mandela's "proud continent".

The actor, who has donned longer locks during the filming of "Pirates of the Caribbean" and for many years after, debuted his new haircut at the "Lone Ranger" world premiere this weekend before showing it off again at a star ceremony on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday evening.

Mr. Harari is a lone, impassive man in a world populated by a girlfriend (Ms. Sher) and three other lithe young women (Russella Fusco, Ellen Cremer and Rachel Okimo).