Sentence examples for singular only from inspiring English sources

But note the singular: only two blackberries appeared among the leaves, set studiously apart, one for me and one for my dining companion (we presumed).

This proposition is particularized with respect to Bismarck, but direct and thus singular only with respect to the occurrent sense datum being demonstratively referred to.

Table 1 The definite articles in the German gender-case paradigm (singular only) for nominative, genitive, dative and accusative cases Case Gender category Masculine Feminine Neuter Nominative der die das Genitive des der des Dative dem der dem Accusative den die das.

So, contrary to popular belief, "none" can be plural: "The notion that it is singular only is a myth," according to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage.

In our case the kernel is not only singular but also non-integral.

Bray's voice is not only singular but sharp as a Ginsu, incorporating veiled references to "Jersey Shore," 'N Sync and other inexplicably popular cultural atrocities designed to appeal to an ever-dumber America.

(And even if it were only singular, why in the world would we expect Modern English to conform to Old English?) Some proponents of the singular-only reading of none have ended up changing their tune.

Fry might have been intrigued to know that a century earlier, in 1908, the Yale professor Thomas R. Lounsbury dissected the specious argument for singular-only none in his book, "The Standard of Usage in English".

However, she is not only increasingly singular but sui generis within her chosen vocation to the extent that she has also created a reputation as a provocateur.

The electric field and electric displacement are singular not only at crack tips but also at the junctures between the impermeable part and conducting parts.

And our intuitive cognition of extra-mental singulars extends only to material singulars, i.e., those that are capable of being captured in a phantasm.