Sentence examples for the lone copy from inspiring English sources
When they figured out that the weird stop-motion animation that transfixed their six-year-old child for five minutes every night was based on a book, they tracked down the lone copy of Terry Pratchett's Truckers in the Wangaratta city library.
Around each of these slow-reproducing molecules, a cloud of the fast-reproducing second molecule emerges to create a spherical blob with the lone copy of the first molecule at its center.
The sale of the lone copy -- "the only copy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with specially added Vanilla Fudge" -- will take place during "First Editions: Redrawn," an auction of annotated first edition books from some of the world's greatest-living illustrators.
By the time news leaked that Shkreli was the mystery buyer of the lone copy of an unreleased Wu-Tang Clan album, he was already public enemy number one; when he said he hadn't even bothered listening to the record, for which he paid $2 million, you got the sense that he was trolling on the scale of a supervillain.
The usual roiling scrum of teachers, normally reserved for the area surrounding the schools' lone copy machine, had expanded by approximately 20 additional bodies and had migrated five feet away, to a counter on which three pans of freshly baked squares of coffee cake had just arrived.
As he flashed a glimpse of his wares, the ambulance man noticed among copies of Spicy Tales, Stolen Sweets, and the like, a lone copy of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin.
Almost 40 pages go by before she gives us even one word from her subject, an obscure 18th-century travel writer whose single published work appears to survive only as a lone copy in the British Library.
"Lovely Day" didn't trigger a desire for khakis, but it did prompt a trip to my local CD retailer, where a clerk located the phrase "lovely day" in the store's proprietary database, and off I went with its lone copy of "Lean on Me: The Best of Bill Withers".
One eBay user has so far sold four of their stock of six copies of the Houston, TX 12.17.16 12 for $399.99 each, while a lone copy has appeared on online music marketplace Discogs at the slightly discounted rate of $349.99, points out The Vinyl Factory.
The catch: as the name implies, this is a bulk deal only (requiring at least 20 copies of an application to be purchased before the discount is applied) and it's something that your university needs to organize — in other words, don't go trying to use your.edu address to get a lone copy of DoodleJump on the cheap.
In the case of ISIS it's the lone wolf copy cat murderers, the Raskolnikovs, the Underground Men, the outliers, who are the most dangerous since they're the very ones who fall off the radar of security agencies and are thus almost impossible to track--as was apparently the case in the San Bernardino shootings.
