Sentence examples for say of one from inspiring English sources
He is not in the mould, say, of one of his heroes, Barack Obama.
To say of one of Joel Salatin's caged chickens that "the life of freedom is to be preferred" betrays an ignorance about chicken preferences -- which on this farm are heavily focused on not getting their heads bitten off by weasels.
As Quartermaine might say of one of his student's compositions, the component parts are all there, but lacks flair.
Yet they appear to have the same meaning both seem to say, of one and the same mountain, that it is identical to itself.
He feels "a clogging and a heat at my breast-bone as if my bowels would have burst out"; a preacher's call to abandon the sin of idle pastimes "did benumb the sinews of my best delights"; and he can say of one of the texts of scripture that seemed to him to spell his damnation that it "stood like a mill-post at my back".
It is one thing to say of an individual person or organism that it is conscious (either in general or of something in particular); and it is quite another thing to say of one of the mental states of a creature that it is conscious.
"It's budding," Christine Jones, a Tony Award-winning set designer, said of one-on-one theater.
"Look, this was opened on 3/24/03," he said of one box.
"How about this crazy woman on the airplane," he said of one accuser.
On one episode, Carolyn Maloney, a Democratic representative from the Upper East Side, said of one government program, "It's petrified pork.
"Far too nostalgic," he says of one.
