Sentence examples for singular habit from inspiring English sources

She had one singular habit, which, I presume, would ultimately have turned into some pursuit; namely a strong pleasure in looking out words or names in dictionaries".

Many of Cusk's contemporaries have a distinct manner, but Cusk seems to me one of very few in possession of a style in Stendhal's sense, which is to say a way of writing that expresses in every sentence its author's singular habits of mind.

It's telephoning a friend at night to say, 'Be a pal, get your gun, and come on over quickly.' " It is? Melville's singular habits extended to his professional career — not easy, when the profession in question calls for a cast, a crew, and the difficult raising of funds.

Odd habits.

He started writing a column called Foggy Bottom.' His work habits were singular.

He does not appear to have been enslaved by an elaborate paranoid system, obsessive-compulsive habits or a singular subject like sex or architecture.

And on Friday, as if out of habit, he lapsed into the singular on occasion, too.

The etiology of lower urinary tract symptoms may be singular or multifactorial, with potential contributors encompassing lifestyle habits, underlying bladder or pelvic floor dysfunction, associated co-morbidities and/or functional factors [ 5, 6].