Sentence examples for stands a single from inspiring English sources

On Hackney Road stands a single building, shabbily defiant.

Speaking of wood lore, there on the Jets' practice field stands a single tree.

In the center of the plaza stands a single Callery-pear tree.

At the front of the stage, a few feet apart, are the gleaming chrome mic stands for Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill, and in each of the two front corners stands a single monitor, almost certainly there for framing rather than practical purposes.

But we cannot even raise this as an issue worth pondering unless we presuppose that behind the dialogues there stands a single mind that is using these writings as a way of hitting upon the truth, and of bringing that truth to the attention of others.

In the middle of an ash-strewn field stood a single house, a lone survivor, still occupied.

In the middle of the room between the headboards and the TV cabinet stood a single four-foot-long folding table -- lower-ranking bankers would be doubling up.

Off to the side stood a single yew and a single box corralled on their own island — trees that had weathered the storms and that may actually be seedlings of trees planted by Le Nôtre.

Off to the side stood a single yew and a single box corralled on their own island trees that had weathered the storms and that may actually be seedlings of trees planted by Le Nôtre.

But it was the decision by the two main unionist parties to stand a single candidate, uniting their votes, that ended her chances of retaining her seat – though the result, in the end, was closer than many expected.

Now Toshiba is desperate to sell the fully-owned site to competitors as it doesn't stand a single chance to raise money needed to build the plant.