Sentence examples similar to to land a lone instance from inspiring English sources

In each instance, the fighters were squaring off as if to land a blow, & so were the unprofessionals.

— emerged to land a superstar.

– the so-called "lone director" slot was a near-annual fixture on the ballot: the film-maker sufficiently admired by his directing peers to land a nomination, but whose film wasn't universally pleasing enough to crack the list.

Maqsood manages to land a heavy blow.

"This is not a lone instance but occurring in several areas," he says.

He was in the first wave of troops to land on Omaha Beach on D-Day and his unit's lone survivor of a machine-gun ambush.

Take, for instance, the decision to land all civilian aircraft.

The staffing move, which will begin immediately, comes after a lone controller at Reno-Tahoe International Airport failed to respond to a pilot of a medical flight who was trying to land early on Wednesday.

Credit Bill Zinsser '44, long before he became an Ivy League professor and best-selling author, with perhaps the lone instance of the word omphalos appearing in these pages.

Trimming the truth for personal gain -- landing a plum contract, for instance -- is difficult to justify.

He is not going to be a lone wolf.