Sentence examples for refer to only from inspiring English sources

His view is rather that it makes sense to speak of what our words refer to only relative to some purpose we might have in assigning referents to those words.

Even though four hijackers have been identified, why did the phone calls refer to only three?

My comments quoted in the Guardian (Suzman criticised for calling theatre 'a white invention', 9 December) obviously refer to only a small part of a larger picture.

An opening 0-0 tie against South Africa on Thursday did nothing to heal lingering trauma from a devastating 7-1 loss to Germany at the 2014 World Cup, a national shame that even Neymar's mother can refer to only euphemistically as "the situation".

The economy is in crisis, and they don't care; they have become Zen about debt, having been impoverished, if trust-fund-less, since they got out of college at the beginning of the millennium, a time of tragedy and war and turmoil, their entire 20s devoured by someone they refer to only by a twangy iteration of his middle initial.

Hence, I have no reasons to be glad when, because of Romanians migrants devoid of this civilised behaviour and respect (I refer to only a very few among the greater mass of Romanian workers in the west), I am humiliated in my turn and viewed with suspicion when I visit other European countries.

The brochure refers to only 650 quilts.

I am not referring to only politicians.

It is currently referred to only in court decisions.

These are referred to only as "another government agency".

Even Van Sant was referring to only one other movie.