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Example sentences for "one another"

  • At the instant of his fall his companion and the American fired point-blank at one another.

  • Striking at one another, the two surged backward and forward at the very edge of the hill, each searching for the other's throat.

  • At sight of him they looked at one another in surprise.

  • Dioscuri, but, on Hesiod's testimony, double in form and with two bodies and joined to one another.

  • So, then, they launched their grievous shafts upon one another, and the cry of both armies as they shouted reached to starry heaven; and they met together with a great battle-cry.

  • I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

  • My neighbors did not thus salute me, but first looked at me, and then at one another, as if I had returned from a long journey.

  • I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with their bodies, at once under my roof, and yet we often parted without being aware that we had come very near to one another.

  • This was a surprise even to the actors, and when they saw the table, they looked at one another in rapturous amazement.

  • Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another.

  • Here the listeners stole sly looks at one another, and began to sew diligently.

  • The study of language, especially in a philosophical manner and as a science; the investigation of the laws of human speech, the relation of different tongues to one another, and historical development of languages; linguistic science.

  • Peruvians with the means of communicating their ideas to one another, and of transmitting them to future generations.

  • You and I seem to have seen nothing of one another.

  • And whatever quarrels there may be between them they ought not to call in their own mother to judge between them and tell tales of one another.

  • But I could not endure their taunts; I could not give in to them with the ignoble readiness with which they gave in to one another.

  • The Munchkins and the Witch first looked at one another, and then at Dorothy, and then shook their heads.

  • But the people remembered him lovingly, and said to one another: "Oz was always our friend.

  • They kept close to the door and closer to one another, for the stillness of the empty room was more dreadful than any of the forms they had seen Oz take.

  • And we would all try to do it in our heads, and all arrive at different results, and sneer at one another.

  • We smiled sadly at one another, and said we supposed we had better try to swallow a bit.

  • It was clear that the upper reaches of the Thames would not allow of the navigation of a boat sufficiently large to take the things we had set down as indispensable; so we tore the list up, and looked at one another!

  • Then they started round the room again looking for it; and then they met again in the centre, and stared at one another.

  • Do you suppose they won't speak to one another?

  • They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue; for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

  • If they have that intuitive knowledge, whereby, as in reflection, they behold the thoughts of one another, I cannot peremptorily deny but they know a great part of ours.

  • She had a flat in Westminster, overlooking the unfinished cathedral, and because we lived in the same neighbourhood we felt friendly disposed to one another.

  • We said good-bye to one another, and arranged to meet in the autumn.

  • Feeling their gaze, she raised her own, and for a moment they stared at one another.

  • They must have spent something like four months at Marseilles in one another's society.

  • But the best was over, and Philip could see that Rose often walked with him merely from old habit or from fear of his anger; they had not so much to say to one another as at first, and Rose was often bored.

  • For the next three days neither Philip nor he spoke to one another.

  • They had said their last good-bye to one another in the garden the night before, and Philip was relieved that there was now no opportunity for them to be alone.

  • Not seldom Philip, knowing all the time how stupid he was, would force a quarrel, and they would not speak to one another for a couple of days.

  • The galleys Have sent a dozen sequent messengers This very night at one another's heels; And many of the consuls, raised and met, Are at the Duke's already.

  • What's the matter That in these several places of the city You cry against the noble Senate, who, Under the gods, keep you in awe, which else Would feed on one another?

  • You did not so when your vile daggers Hack'd one another in the sides of Caesar.

  • In an ideal system of training these two factors will be so fitted in and adapted to one another, that what is weak or unprovided for in the first will be amply compensated for in the second.

  • Originally the absorption of the Deacon chlorine took place in a set of chambers, constructed of large slabs of stone, containing a great many horizontal shelves superposed over one another.

  • Roman law, by which, in things that have a close connexion with or dependence on one another, the property of the principal draws after it the property of the accessory, according to the principle, accessio cedet principali.

  • Carry fire insurance on 'em all the time," she finished and went out, leaving us staring at one another!

  • The family sat up and nodded at one another, or held up its hands, but when they heard there was a condition they breathed easier.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one another" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    along the; living stones; one and; one and the same; one another; one end; one foot; one for; one form; one hundred; one hundred and fifty; one instance; one may; one might; one part; one person; one piece; one sense; one that; one thing; one thousand five hundred and ninety; one thousand seven hundred and ninety; one whom; the heat; violet light; will instantly