Sentence examples for the singular of from inspiring English sources

Criteria is the plural, not the singular of criterion.

I think it's cute that people think the singular of tamales is tamale in Spanish (it's tamal).

On the singular of data, he rejects the traditional datum, holding that "it's time to pull the plug and acknowledge that data is a collective noun, like information".

For the 1611 reader, the Bible was overlaid with an antique patina: the increasingly outmoded "thou" as the singular of "you", the "-eth" ending to verbs as opposed to the current move to "s" ("hath" for "has", "doeth" for "does"), "thereof" for the contemporary "its".

Dashes should be en dashes rather than em dashes or hyphens data takes a singular verb (like agenda), though strictly a plural; you come across datum, the singular of data, about as often as you hear about an agendum datacentre, dataset dates Our style is: 21 July 2016 (day month year; no commas).

The singular of archaea has been corrected.

Darger was one of the singular artists of the twentieth century.

Here it reminds us of the singular power of live theater.

That, in fact, has been one of the singular benefits of the same-sex marriage debate overall.

The E Street Band are in hiatus, but Van Zandt remains convinced of the singular potential of rock'n'roll.

The audition was for Manhattan Theater Club's 1982 Off Broadway production of "The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs".