Sentence examples for the singular copy from inspiring English sources
Over the past year he has funded an indie record label, claimed he would bail Bobby Shmurda out of jail (but only if Shmurda recorded some tracks for him), and purchased the singular copy of a legendary Wu-Tang Clan album with no immediate plans to let anyone outside of his apartment hear it.
Just as there is no such a thing as a universal book over and above the singular copies of the same book, so there is no such a thing as a universal nature existing over and above the singular things of the same nature; still, just as it is true to say that the singular copies are the copies of the same book, so it is true to say that these singulars are of the same nature.
For the scholar of material texts, it is not only a singular copy carrying the unique traces of printing and preservation efforts, or an edition, repeated and repeatable, or a vehicle for ideas to be abstracted from the physical copy.
They separated the singular vertices and singular edges by adding copies of such vertices and edges.
The Committee's own report talks about "facsimile copies" in the plural, whereas if they intended only one copy to be made, they could have easily have used the singular.
So, creative writers, copy editors and linguists are beginning to accept the social import and verbal grace of the singular "they".
The references to "copies or phonorecords," although in the plural, are intended here and throughout the bill to include the singular (1 U.S.C. § 1).
The Singular "Their" Many ACES stalwarts copy editors, journalists, grammarians, lexicographers, and linguists—stand ready to embrace the singular "their".
The singular is "criterion".
The singular noun confuses.
