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Example sentences for "sole"

Lexicographically close words:
soldierly; soldiers; soldiership; soldiery; soldo; solebat; solecism; solecisms; soled; soleil
  1. It leads almost inevitably to camping out, which is a wholesome and sanitary imprudence.

  2. The ears of fishes, for the most part, are inclosed in their skull, and have no outward opening.

  3. He admired and respected a gallant adversary, and urged him on, with quips and puns and daring assaults and unqualified statements, to do his best.

  4. If he makes a bad stroke he seems to think that the way to retrieve it is to deliver the next one on the head of the other player.

  5. I knew a man once (I will not name him even with an initial) who was malignant to the core.

  6. The rest, with one accord not entering, stood About the door without, silent, and saw While the wife sole went to the husband's side.

  7. Him sole except, it is our policy To entertain with wise indifference In brotherly equality all gods Of whatsoever nations of the earth.

  8. The Roman, groping in his secret mind Vainly to find support of sympathy, Faltered to feel himself thus fronted sole With danger he could neither ward nor shun, In presence yet forbidding sign of fear.

  9. Wherefore should we you Hebrews sole of all Reckon divinely taught by history, Taught to be theists in an atheist world, Or in a world idolatrous, of God The True, the Only, only worshippers?

  10. And in doing so she had yielded to the sole desire of seeing Gerard rich and happy.

  11. One sole idea now remained to Guillaume, that idea of justice which maddened him, leaving naught in his mind save the thought of the just, avenging flare by which he would repair the evil and ensure that which was right for all time forward.

  12. He had been her Victor, her sole affection, the only one in whom she had faith.

  13. As tho' they said, "Our sole design is "To suffocate his Royal Highness!

  14. One sole desire, one passion now remains To keep life's fever still within his veins, Vengeance!

  15. All brought to the hammer, for Church competition,-- Sole encumbrance, Miss Fudge to be taken therewith.

  16. With a sneering laugh he raised his foot and brought it down on the garter, grinding the silver clasp and the satin ribbon under the sole of his shoe.

  17. Carolyn June's sole accomplishment in the art of preparing food was the making of coffee-jelly.

  18. Faith being the sole cause of the cures, it was unnecessary, he said, to lay hands on the sick.

  19. The Russian legal records are full of the misdeeds of many such, whose sole crimes consisted in dreaming with all sincerity, and in spite of cruel deceptions and disappointments, of the day when man should at last attain perfection upon earth.

  20. For nourishment they depended on herbs and strawberries, and prayer was their sole occupation.

  21. Though he was not the sole cause of it, Fuseli was largely accountable for this in Miss Wollstonecraft's outward style.

  22. But The Rights of Woman was her sole important original work.

  23. The last paragraph of the preface to Laon and Cythna is preceded by these words, 'Love is celebrated everywhere as the sole law which should govern the moral world.

  24. Have you the least doubt that I am the sole heir to a large landed property?

  25. Thus in the journal, which has been dealt with by the Shelleyan specialists as the joint-production of Shelley and Mary, and in the Preface of which Shelley was the sole author, Claire is styled Mary's sister.

  26. Flatear was the one strange dog to Shady, and he found himself assailed by a screeching fury who fought without care or caution, her sole aim being to sink her teeth in any available part of him.

  27. Peg was now Breed's sole companion at night, except when their mates joined them at the two frozen elk carcasses in the bottoms between their home ridges, and the two of them explored the surrounding country together.

  28. Except that equilibrium does not itself judge of its relationship to brain, whereas mind is the sole judge of its relationship and dependence on brain.

  29. It is the tension in the seminal vessels of the male that wakes up his passion, if it is not the sole source of that passion.

  30. A "weak" group in whom these act as apparently the sole motives.

  31. To such a man, however, it is quite certain that the absolute rule of one man would present itself as the sole really strong form of government.

  32. In 1515 Wolsey was fully established not as the king’s chief adviser, but in effect as his sole minister.

  33. Thus for millions upon untold millions of years the two races, each the sole intelligent life of a galaxy, perhaps of an entire space-time continuum, remained completely in ignorance of each other.

  34. And so it often happens that in a small room, up half a dozen flights of stairs, with a cup of tea for sole refreshment and music or conversation for sole amusement, one will find some of the pleasantest society in Paris.

  35. The sole idea of the early printers was to imitate exactly the manuscript characters of the scribes.

  36. O Light Eterne, sole in thyself that dwellest, Sole knowest thyself, and, known unto thyself And knowing, lovest and smilest on thyself!

  37. Just now thy thoughts came in among my own, With similar attitude and similar face, So that of both one counsel sole I made.

  38. Didst thou behold," he said, "that old enchantress, Who sole above us henceforth is lamented?

  39. It is so privileged by use and nature, That though a guilty head misguide the world, Sole it goes right, and scorns the evil way.

  40. Now go, for one sole will is in us both, Thou Leader, and thou Lord, and Master thou.

  41. Thereafterward a light among them brightened, So that, if Cancer one such crystal had, Winter would have a month of one sole day.

  42. The Good Supreme, sole in itself delighting, Created man good, and this goodly place Gave him as hansel of eternal peace.

  43. I think that he was preliminary to the sole event of that partial circus I have mentioned.

  44. In addition we may classify exceptions, for the sole purpose of aiding the memory.

  45. As for spelling, the irregularities of our language seem to have driven us to one sole method, memorizing: and to memorize every word in a language is an appalling task.

  46. In the case of the French foot the seam occurs along the centre of the sole of the foot which is obviously an awkward arrangement from point of view of comfort.

  47. The details of the great battle that followed depend upon the sole authority of Herodotus among the Greek writers.

  48. The truth is the sole criterion of value, and this can be obtained only by definition; next there must be orderly arrangement, a beginning, a middle and an end.

  49. If Justice is frank despotism, then the Eastern type of civilisation is the best, wherein custom has once for all fixed the right of the despot to grind down the population, while the sole duty of the latter is to pay taxes.

  50. Left in sole command, Nicias remained inactive, while Gylippus, despatched from Sparta, arrived in Syracuse just in time to prevent it from capitulating.

  51. The State cannot continue unless there is created in it a class whose sole business it is to govern.

  52. Not a bit; every man who has a sole to his foot has a crown to his head.

  53. Twice a week butter and cheese are served out--so much to each man--and the mess-cook has the sole charge of these delicacies.

  54. It is the sole duty of the mast-man to see that these ropes are always kept clear, to preserve his premises in a state of the greatest attainable neatness, and every Sunday morning to dispose his ropes in neat Flemish coils.

  55. Its sole object is to show what has been done and what can be done on small areas and to show that life in the country need not be so laborious if the same methods are used which make successes of business in other lines.

  56. The applicant is allowed a garden on the sole condition that he cultivate it well through the season, and that he do not trespass upon his neighbors.

  57. Law made himself sole creditor of this debt, and was allowed to issue ten times the amount in paper money, and to open “the Royal Bank of France,” empowered to issue this paper currency.

  58. The pope assumes supreme dominion, not only over spiritual but also over temporal affairs, styling himself “Head of the Catholic or Universal Church, Sole Arbiter of its rights, and Sovereign Father of all the Kings of the Earth.

  59. He, too, of Chindasuintho’s regal line Sole remnant now, drew after him the love Of all true Goths.

  60. He next persuaded the emperor to retire, and Tiberius went to Campania, leaving to Sejānus the sole management of affairs.

  61. The third voyage made by a ship sent in the yeere 1586, to the reliefe of the Colony planted in Virginia at the sole charges of Sir Walter Ralegh.

  62. He had broken with the girl: she reviewed him under the light of that sole fact.

  63. Your happiness, beloved, is my sole thought.

  64. After the expiration of the said term of fourteen years the sole right of printing or disposing of copies shall return to the authors thereof, if they are then living, or their representatives, for another term of fourteen years.

  65. Lord Chancellor Halsbury, Lord Davey, Lord James of Hereford and Lord Brampton upheld the claim to copyright in such cases, whilst Lord Robertson was the sole dissentient.

  66. A majority (seven to four) were of opinion that the author and his assigns had at common law the sole right of publication in perpetuity.

  67. The rights conferred included the sole right of making a translation of the work for ten years from its first publication.

  68. And that sole imperfect permanency was based primarily upon a literature.

  69. At present, except in the case of certain forms of research and in relation to the altogether too charitable-looking British Civil List, we make popularity the sole standard by which a writer may be paid.

  70. Sound thinking, clearly and honestly set forth, that is the sole and simple food of human greatness, the real substance and the real wealth of nations; the key that will at last unlock the door to all we can dream of or desire.

  71. Grandmothers appeared to be Johnny's sole figure of comparison.

  72. She felt herself the hope, the sole resource of her family.


  73. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sole" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolute; alone; any; arch; atomic; base; basement; bottom; celibate; certain; chassis; dado; digit; distinct; dog; either; exclusive; extremity; fetlock; fish; foot; footing; forepaw; foundation; frame; heel; hoof; individual; indivisible; instep; integral; irreducible; keel; lone; lonely; maiden; maidenly; odd; one; only; pad; particular; paw; separate; simple; single; singular; sole; solid; solitary; solo; support; toe; trotter; underneath; underside; undivided; unexampled; uniform; unique; unitary; unmarried; virgin; virginal; wainscot; whole


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    sole leather; soled shoes; solemn assembly; solemn declaration; solemn oath; solemn procession; solemn promise; solemn tone; solemn voice; solemnly declare; solemnly swear