Sentence examples for the lone world from inspiring English sources

Then as now, visitors migrated to the lone world superpower, and were duly dazzled by its wealth, sickened by its poverty, driven by a desire for its approval and, in some cases, wounded by the rudeness or indifference of the locals.

There could be no curtailment of her independence, so she ended each of her affairs with a return to the lone world of her writing, and, for the last 30 years of her life, to the Tudor tower at Sissinghurst, her brick eyrie above the Kent Weald.

Rahn, the colossus who scored the goal that overcame the Hungarians in the Miracle of Bern in 1954, was the lone World Cup winner in the team that night in Stuttgart, the rest of the side forming the nucleus of the team that made the semi-finals in 1958 - Hans Tilkowski, Erich Juskowiak, Georg Stollenwerk and Horst Szymaniak.

Since that lone World Cup appearance in Mexico, Canada has been leapfrogged by Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean and, of course, the United States.

It includes all seven games of the Brooklyn Dodgers' lone World Series championship in 1955, Jim Brown's exploits for Syracuse in the 1957 Cotton Bowl and Sandy Koufax's first no-hitter in 1962.

PHILADELPHIA — Reminders of the Phillies' lone World Series championship are positioned throughout Citizens Bank Park.

Late in Johnson's career, the Senators brought home the capital's lone World Series championship.

Slingshotted out of their planetary system by the gravity of a bigger planet, these lone worlds zoom far from their parent suns, slowly freezing in the cold of outer space.

There is not, however, much history that the team is eager to repeat, save for its lone World Series appearance in 2005, when it was swept by the White Sox.

The actor, who has donned longer locks during the filming of "Pirates of the Caribbean" and for many years after, debuted his new haircut at the "Lone Ranger" world premiere this weekend before showing it off again at a star ceremony on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday evening.

Iran, whose lone World Cup triumph was over the U.S. in 1998, conspired to shut out the world's premier scorer and his potent mates for an hour and a half.