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Example sentences for "single action"

  • Like tragedy it must have a single action, but it differs from tragedy in not having the time of the action limited or determined.

  • With Aristotle as his guide, and Homer as his model, he had studiously and mechanically constructed an epic of a single action; and in the dedication of his poem to the Emperor Charles V.

  • It has few persons and virtually a single action.

  • There was no thought of restricting a play to the presentation of one crisis or a single action, and there was consequently no possibility of an approach to anything like the structure of classical tragedy.

  • I scarce find a single Action in these five Days that I can thoroughly approve of, except the working upon the Violet-Leaf, which I am resolved to finish the first Day I am at leisure.

  • This is a sort of Thrift or Good-Husbandry in moral Life, which does not throw away any single Action, but makes every one go as far as it can.

  • It will differ in structure from historical compositions, which of necessity present not a single action, but a single period, and all that happened within that period to one person or to many, little connected together as the events may be.

  • It should have for its subject a single action, whole and complete, with a beginning, a middle, and an end.

  • Yet these poems are as perfect as possible in structure; each is, in the highest degree attainable, an imitation of a single action.

  • When cutting cards for a double action machine, each card is cut from the design singly, just the same as if cutting cards for a single action machine.

  • The hook that passes through the first needle is considered the first thread in the pattern, although when standing in front of a single action machine, it is the last thread.

  • Even in rapid-fire shooting better results are obtained with a double-action arm if used as a single action.

  • Larger and more practical arms are generally carried in holsters, and such arms should be single action in all cases.

  • The simplest element of Plot is the Single Action, which may be defined as any train of incidents in a drama which can be conceived as a separate whole.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    destroy the; electric spark; fifty times; great invention; other provisions; single atom; single bird; single blow; single card; single combat; single dollar; single family; single game; single grain; single hour; single instance; single layer; single letter; single moment; single object; single operation; single organ; single syllable; single woman; single word; solid form