How to use "single" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "single" in popular movie and book plots

  • Amelia leaves Mark and is planning to raise her daughter as a single parent.  - A Vicious Circle
  • While the others attempt to remove the logs, Mark is mauled to death trying to capture the creature underwater, single handedly.  - Creature from the Black Lagoon
  • Jake abruptly leaves school and finds a key in a littered vacant lot where grows a single red rose.  - The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
  • I haven't a single explorer on my planet.  - The Little Prince
  • As Karellen explains, the time of humanity as a race composed of single individuals with a concrete identity is coming to an end.  - Childhood's End
  • A second expedition 25 years later finds a single survivor, Valentine Michael Smith.  - Stranger in a Strange Land
  • George has decided to "kill" him because Martha broke the game's single rule: never mention their son to others.  - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • The Last Battle takes place in A Memory of Light, in the form of a 202-page single chapter.  - The Wheel of Time
  • In a final atavistic attempt at revenge, the government orders a nuclear strike by a single aircraft from a local Air Force base.  - The Shockwave Rider
  • Niggle ends up discarding all his other artworks, or tacks them onto the main canvas, which becomes a single vast embodiment of his vision.  - Leaf by Niggle
  • Catesby and Percy were reportedly killed by a single lucky shot.  - Gunpowder Plot
  • Other villains only appeared in single episodes.  - Four Feather Falls
  • Charles and his single friends wonder whether they will ever get married.  - Four Weddings and a Funeral
  • learns that, to Titorelli's knowledge, not a single defendant has ever been acquitted.  - The Trial
  • While the majority of the first season's episodes are self-contained stories, the second season comprises a single serialized story arc.  - The Big O
  • The Seven Commandments are abridged to a single phrase: "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others".  - Animal Farm

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