Sentence examples for they were singular from inspiring English sources

For instance, Dorp remarked that we treat such names as 'Aristotle' as singular because they were singular for the original impositor.

We evidenced this hypothesis by sorting cells from the DAPI- or Hoechst-labeled GSCs of the first and second peaks of the DNA histogram (Fig. 6B and C, respectively), by determining whether they were singular or doublet cells by immunostaining (Fig. 6D), and by establishing their cell cycle phase based on their fusome morphology (Fig. 6E– E').

And yet they are singular creatures, too.

They are singular in their talents, singular in their vision".

They are singular places, of community tradition, memory and pride.

"They're lyrical, they're funny, they're singular," Mr. Rosenthal said of the prose poems.

They are singular individuals, controversial in some quarters, and they head the first black First Family.

They're singular and mysterious and yet alluring in their own right.

People often deal with "stone-eating organisms," as if they are singular events, he added, rather than as adaptive beings.

One major question about complex demonstratives is whether they are singular terms or quantifier phrases.

Objections to counting terms for kinds and properties rigid, whether they are singular or general, are discussed below (§4.2).