Sentence examples for sole child from inspiring English sources

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I watched a LOT of TV as a sole child and spent a lot of time with John.

The sole child of their longstanding relationship, Martin studied at Dartington Hall school, Devon, undertook two years of national service and worked in Malawi for a family trust.

The beautiful decadent — a fraction more than half mad, as it turns out — is Olivier Leibovitz, the sole child of Jacques Leibovitz, an Estonia-born Cubist contemporary of Picasso.

Using the definite article rather than "my," even sardonically, also might be seen as elevating one's child from the pack and effacing the rest, as if theirs is "the" sole child in existence.

Shortly after the painter's death his son Javier, the sole child of seven to survive, wrote of his father's portraits: "Those that he did in one session are much acclaimed.

Despite some hard years as the sole child of a sick churchgoing mother (his father had died before his birth), he grew up a loyal communist and staunch supporter of the Soviet regime.

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I read children's books, of course, and collected every issue of the sole children's magazine published in Turkish at the time, the amazing Milliyet Çocuk, which featured original art, stories, and comic prose.

I read children's books, of course, and collected every issue of the sole children's magazine published in Turkish at the time, the amazing Milliyet Çocuk, which featured original art, stories, and comic prose.

Some of the seized children were the sole children of couples who were often away working in the cities, the magazine added.

"She's always with me," said the 19-year-old, Houston's only child and sole heir.

An Israeli physician at the airport, Dr. Yoel Donchin, said that the most severely wounded were a mother -- who lost two children in the blast -- and her sole surviving child.

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