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Example sentences for "single line"

  • When there is a single line, which is rather rare, it is generally broad, and the middle line is sometimes broader than the others.

  • The women as a rule are not tattooed until they reach a marriageable age, though there were a few little girls in the two villages who had a single line on the chin.

  • What other poet has compressed into a single line so much of the essential virtue of flowers, of their power to minister to the spirit of man through all his senses at once?

  • We positively affirm that there is not so much as a single line of Scripture in proof of any such custom.

  • A single line of Scripture ought to be sufficient for our souls on any point, even though, in carrying it out, we should have to move athwart the opinions of the highest and best of men.

  • We would not, if we know ourselves, pen a single line to swell the ranks of a party, or draw over adherents to any particular doctrinal creed or any special form of church polity.

  • He nodded in satisfaction; and picked up the mirror for a final inspection of himself, that, this time, did not miss a single line in his face or neck.

  • Again, the point of attack may be such that the other parts of the place will not flank the works of approach; here a single line of boyaux and short parallels may be all-sufficient.

  • If the two armies united had pursued a single line, the republican flag had been carried in triumph to Vienna.

  • But don't write him, ever, except a single line in case he forgets the checks--for the man is driven to death with work.

  • I have not written a single line, and have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness.

  • As a consequence of the last-mentioned principle, with equal forces on the same frontier, a single line of operations will be more advantageous than a double one.

  • The author of the present work is denied the satisfaction of reading a single line of it, yet he flatters himself that he shall not trespass on the indulgence he claims for any slight inadvertences.

  • The critical decision of Warton is much too searching for a volume in which the compiler never wrote a single line, and probably never entertained the remotest idea of the printer's press.

  • Single line; parts displaced] In figure 295, starting with the simple encircling band, it is found divided into alternating rectangles.

  • He saw that the old battle formation in single line-ahead was insufficient if you wanted--as he himself always did--to gain an overwhelming victory.

  • There are some of a single line: Thy name is altogether good in the mouth of the people.

  • It is a hymn addressed in the second person to Ninib, of which unfortunately only twelve lines are preserved, and of these no single line is complete.

  • Of the twelve lines remaining no single line is complete.

  • Defn: Having only one axis; developing along a single line or plane; as, monaxial development.

  • Defn: To print in Italic characters; to underline written letters or words with a single line; as, to Italicize a word; Italicizes too much.

  • Defn: Having only one axis; developing along a single line or plane; -- opposed to multiaxial.

  • Tell me the direction of a single line in them: You cannot.

  • Hundreds could have given the parallelism of blocks, but none but himself could have done so without the actual repetition of a single line or feature.

  • On a working railway, the train service must be kept going, irrespective of renewals, and very often the best that can be done is to reduce the double line to single line working at the site of the operations.

  • Estimated Cost of Materials for One Mile of Single Line.

  • At terminal stations a double line of railway must not end as a single line.

  • Another kind of harmonious unification of lines is continuity, where out of different lines or shapes a single line is made.

  • The "Odalisque" of Ingres, where all the lines of the body constitute a single line, is a notable case.

  • Within a single line, therefore, there may be both rising and falling pulsations.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single line" 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:
    better still; like love; single atom; single block; single blow; single combat; single day; single fact; single glance; single grain; single head; single individuals; single life; single moment; single nation; single operation; single piece; single seed; single step; single subject; single term; single thing; single track; single vowel; single woman; wicked life