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

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

  • She represented the pan-Asian imaginary rather than a fixed singular ethnic figure, typically involving a non-Japanese female character falling in love with a Japanese male.  - Ri Kōran (film)
  • During the transformation from an animation into live action, the musician has but one singular wish: to play for his daughter (Hannah Heine).  - Dissonance (film)
  • In the following, brutal questioning of Stefanoni, Petroscaglia is able to prove by confronting the witness with photos and police illustrations that the attribution of singular shoe and footprints to the defendants made by her office, were intentionally wrong, and that Stefanoni had testified falsely about it before.  - The Verdict of Perugia
  • After a wild and tumultuous night embellished singular encounters, the wake-Michel is brutal and painful.  - Holiday (2010 film)
  • Back in New York, Luciano and Lansky gather the most powerful crime bosses in the United States and form The Commission, a singular body that mediates relations between all crime organizations in the country.  - Eldorado (Boardwalk Empire)
  • Over a game of cards, Schmaltz once again begins a singular and long-winded discursion.  - The Man Who Knew Coolidge
  • The Grisha are Ravkan with singular powers,g.  - Shadow and Bone
  • People pass on the street under their umbrellas, all of which are seemly black, except for a singular blue umbrella.  - The Blue Umbrella (2013 film)
  • Now their singular skills are back in vital demand — for a tailor-made Wraith Squadron mission.  - Mercy Kill
  • In Bastion of Broken Souls, the great wyrm Ashardalon accumulates power, while one of the heads of the demon prince Demogorgon plots to use the player characters in its plan to slay the dragon and thereby gain enough power to destroy the other head and become a singular being.  - Bastion of Broken Souls
  • The film brings together a variety of cultures, languages and film styles into a singular narrative plot.  - The Owner
  • Later it is revealed the virus in Namibia was spread by Kaal himself to incur huge profits by selling its antidote, the singular source of which is his blood.  - Krrish 3
  • Early on, Avraham displays high intelligence and he quickly arrives at the conclusion of a singular god.  - Young Abraham
  • The villain gathers every point to fight with Kichamani, which proves to be singular plot of the film.  - Kichamani MBA
  • The stories center around a singular family, the Crossovers, all four members of whom are involved in different genres of sci-fi/fantasy.  - The Crossovers
  • The book is written in the first person singular from the perspective of its 15-year-old narrator, Garth Rudd.  - In Mike We Trust
  • Justin’s pupils disappear and adopt a singular gray hue as the parasites heighten his body’s abilities.  - Growth (film)
  • One of the investors is named Percy, a man with a singular allergy to the sun, working under him is a man named Finch who is a middle man facilitating the investments made by Percy and his partners.  - American Vampire
  • The book chronicles Aguilar's search for answers and his efforts to rehabilitate his young, beautiful and admittedly singular wife through the use of alternating narrative styles that, as the novel progresses, shed further light on the mysterious events that took place during Aguilar's absence as well as the nature of Agustina's family and childhood, both of which precipitated Agustina's struggle with mental illness.  - Delirium (Restrepo novel)
  • The tableaux vivants depict singular narratives that lie within each painting.  - The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
  • While the episodic film lacks the cohesion of an overarching singular plot with a traditional narrative structure, the vignettes do present a clear means for the film to explore the themes of military life.  - MASH (film)
  • As a whole new woman, she returns to her home village, Agua Hermosa, with a singular aim in mind: to take revenge against those that did her wrong.  - Doña Bella
  • This discovery launches Connie on a quest— to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge.  - The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
  • Danger and intrigue abound on the journey, for which Osgood has chosen Rebecca Sand, Daniel’s older sister, to help clear her brother’s name and achieve their singular mission.  - The Last Dickens
  • Once on the roof Ken and Kuroh fight once more, as he dies Kuroh mockingly reveals that Ken was not born but made, in a lab with the singular purpose of wiping out the Alpha Worms.  - Ninja Blade
  • However, there are occasional tourists who take a closer look at the distinct and singular culture, as well as the traditions turned into taboos.  - Santa Esperanza
  • The singular theme of the film is how a child from Pakistan aged eight years learns to cope with the trauma of forced separation from his mother while being held prisoner, along with his father in the jail of a country (India), which is hostile to his own (Pakistan).  - Ramchand Pakistani
  • Larry and Phil have a singular hope for the evening—to make the acquaintance of Dick Fuller -- CEO of one of the largest manufacturing firms in the Midwest and, as such, a potential savior of their ailing company.  - Hospitality Suite
  • It's then revealed in a flashback that Arthur's grandfather, in order to spare him pain as a child, metaphorically blamed his mother's death on the "captains of industry," but Arthur's mental incapacity led him to believe it was a singular person.  - Defendor
  • Later, Steve brings a towel to the stranger's room and sees something that launches him on an unusual and singular adventure: the man's skin is bright blue and he seems to be draining energy from a nearby lamp.  - The Blue Man
  • He quickly loses control when they begin to devour one another and grow bigger until there is only one singular huge dragon left.  - Way of the Rat
  • Based on Wu's autobiography, this elegantly shot and remarkably restrained biopic follows the life of a singular figure, fascinating not only for his genius and achievements in the game of Go, but also for his unique experiences as a Chinese man in Japan during an immensely turbulent period in history.  - The Go Master
  • The OVA starts out as a montage of singular events surrounding the life of Kenshin Himura, told from the point of view of Kaoru Kamiya.  - Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection
  • He establishes that the events surrounding Around the World in Eighty Days is actually a singular aspect of a greater conflict taking place between two immortal alien races, the Eridani and the Capellas.  - The Other Log of Phileas Fogg
  • But her singular beauty and powers of manipulation quickly moved her into the position of Second Consort.  - Imperial Woman
  • "Sonny's Blues" is a story written in the first-person singular narrative style.  - Sonny's Blues
  • His singular obsession eventually rounds the bend into psychosis after he crosses paths with Marilyn O'Connor (Linda Kerridge), an Australian model and a Marilyn Monroe lookalike who becomes the physical embodiment of his cinematic desires.  - Fade to Black (1980 film)
  • Odo then points out something: Gowron called off his body guards and chose to stand to fight Worf in singular combat, thus showing Klingon honor.  - Apocalypse Rising
  • Buddhadev Gupta is an arrogant, ego-centric, pompous man with a singular passion in life — cooking.  - Cheeni Kum
  • Takuuna is airlifted from the Tier, but his transport is sabotaged by the singular Vssey terrorist killing him and destroying the AAnn Authority’s transportation annex.  - Sliding Scales
  • Simoun are piloted by priestesses known as (plural; singular sibylla), each a girl who has not yet chosen a permanent sex; doing so renders one physically incapable of piloting a Simoun.  - Simoun (anime)
  • "Had there been one to listen just then," Pater comments, "there would have come, from the very depth of his desolation, an eloquent utterance at last, on the irony of men's fates, on the singular accidents of life and death".  - Marius the Epicurean
  • However he puts off leaving for Europe from day to day for several years, because "The truth is, that in the midst of all the ardent tenderness of his memory of Madame de Mauves, he has become conscious of a singular feeling,—a feeling for which awe would be hardly too strong a name".  - Madame de Mauves
  • The story is divided into thirty very short chapters which permit the author to rapidly change situations and environments, bringing alternatively to the forefront the different subjects involved in the singular plan conceived by Marcantonio Ravì, the cause of odd and unpredictable events.  - The Turn (novel)
  • After accepting brief applause (which is instantly stopped when he raises his hand), Bugs cracks his knuckles, winds up his fists, and conducts Giovanni into holding a singular high G note until Giovanni can hardly endure the strain.  - Long-Haired Hare
  • In "The Premature Burial", the first-person unnamed narrator describes his struggle with things such as "attacks of the singular disorder which physicians have agreed to term catalepsy", a condition where he randomly falls into a death-like trance.  - The Premature Burial
  • The Hierarchy uses their power to control the Avatar, a singular being who is able to amass all of the psionic power of the Ovanan people and wield that power as a weapon called The Collective.  - A Distant Soil
  • However, during a routine maintenance operation, something goes horribly wrong, and the station's master computer is infested by microscopic nano-phages that build a singular intelligence (foreign AI) in the computer core.  - Omega Virus
  • Even though she is hurt by his criticism, Lisa aims to correct it and resolves to find a singular passion to which she can devote herself, astronomy.  - 'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky
  • Both are attracted to her, and she, intrigued by Bazarov's singular manner, invites them to spend a few days at her estate, Nikolskoe.  - Fathers and Sons (novel)
  • "The strangeness, the daring, the seeming impenetrability of the crime marked it as one of the most singular and astonishing cases in New York's police annals; and had it not been for Philo Vance's participation in its solution, I firmly believe it would have remained one of the great unsolved mysteries of this country".  - The Canary Murder Case
  • Ben and Virgil are stereotypical overachieving Asian-Americans whose singular goal is to gain acceptance into highly prestigious Ivy League universities.  - Better Luck Tomorrow
  • Miss Hunter tells them one of the most singular stories that they have ever heard.  - The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
  • The novel is set in a culture where the first person singular is forbidden, and words such as I or me are treated as obscenities or social errors.  - A Time of Changes
  • The narrative is based on two historical figures, Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machebeuf and rather than any one singular plot, is the stylized re-telling of their lives serving as Roman Catholic clergy in New Mexico.  - Death Comes for the Archbishop
  • This man, who was once leader of the Hajin Mon ninja, is no longer human, but a force of singular and unprecedented capabilities.  - Dead or Alive 3
  • Does it not strike you as somewhat singular that an ex–convict, though aware that his record was known already to your brother, should steal a famous stone from his own employer and then conveniently condemn himself by secreting the jewel–box under his mattress, where even Scotland Yard could be relied upon to search.  - The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby
  • Gigli successfully convinces the young man, Brian Dorf (Justin Bartha), to go off with him by promising to take him "to the Baywatch", apparently a reference to the television show of that name, which seems to be Brian's singular obsession.  - Gigli
  • In his singular act as king, English has Sauvage arrested and restores the Queen to the throne, requesting a knighthood as a reward.  - Johnny English
  • Every member of the Bene Gesserit is conditioned into singular loyalty to the order and its goals with allegiances to even family being secondary, and no goal is more paramount than the Sisterhood's large-scale breeding program.  - Bene Gesserit

Example sentences for "singular" in interesting articles

  • In my subjective opinion, I think all our (apps) efforts will converge into a singular objective of reducing the mental space and time required to get things done.  - ChatBots and the future of Apps in India
  • They allow complete idiots to feel smart with very little effort. Large historical events almost never happen because of singular causes or simple motives.  - Hackers backdoor the human brain, successfully extract sensitive data
  • But Ruef’s analysis suggests that this focus on the singular misses the real story of entrepreneurship.  - The Secret of Successful Entrepreneurs
  • Unlike turn-based games, where each player must wait for all opponents to issue unit movement orders, a real-time game would enable all players to give orders simultaneously, placing a premium on rapid, decisive tactical movements over long, drawn-out strategic planning. And with that singular goal in mind, development of the game began without any serious effort to plan the game design, evaluate the technical requirements, build the schedule, or budget for the required staff.  - The Making of Warcraft 1: Origin of the series & creation of multi-unit select
  • To its fans, it’s a masterpiece of dystopian fiction, and some scholars say it will go down in history as a singular cultural event.  - Player stuck in an eternal Civ II war
  • The focus instead is on the "audacity," the "temerity" of the Japanese to wage an attack on American soil at Pearl Harbor and what a singular horror it was! 2) Based on the principles underlying the creations of the American and Confederate flags, I'd say you're making a false equivalency.  - Apple Removes American Civil War Games from the App Store
  • Compared to Bezos, Cook, and Page, he’s most adept at mimicking Jobs’s singular skills, and comes off as infectiously visionary when unveiling a new product.  - The Great Tech War Of 2012
  • Even the First Sergeant seemed vaguely human for that singular midnight hour.  - How Meals Win Wars
  • Unlike turn-based games, where each player must wait for all opponents to issue unit movement orders, a real-time game would enable all players to give orders simultaneously, placing a premium on rapid, decisive tactical movements over long, drawn-out strategic planning. And with that singular goal in mind, development of the game began without any serious effort to plan the game design, evaluate the technical requirements, build the schedule, or budget for the required staff.  - The Making of Warcraft (2012)
  • Finland has this singular goal: to develop the humanity of each child.  - Why Finlands schools are great (by doing what we dont).
  • At Imagine K12 we have a singular goal: improving your company’s chances of success.  - CodeHS Wants To Teach Every American High Schooler How To Code
  • They came from all five boroughs of New York City, and a few lived in New Jersey and Connecticut. Although I've been using the singular term "report card" when referring to a student's record, each student's file is actually a packet of several cards, usually four or five of them.  - Report Cards from 1920 Manhattan Girls' Trade School and the Stories They Tell
  • It would be seen as an excuse for official apathy: leave citizens to do what should be the responsibility of government or city administration.But the serial crises to which Mumbai has so relentlessly been subjected shows that this "spirit" is indeed its proudest possession, as much the raison d'etre of its singular triumphs as of its undeserved catastrophes.  - How the 1993 blasts changed Mumbai forever
  • It sparked a debate over architecture, conservation and planning which still resonates today.In Outrage, the singular and passionate Nairn recounted a journey he had made in a Morris Minor from Southampton to Carlisle.  - Six decades ago a critic attacked bland "subtopia" in British towns

Meaning of "singular" in English

  • being a single and separate person or thing
    Example
    - every fact in the world might be singular...unlike any other fact and sole of its kind
  • beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
    Examples
    - her speech has a funny twang
    - they have some funny ideas about war
    - had an odd name
    - the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves
    - something definitely queer about this town
    - what a rum fellow
    - singular behavior
  • unusual or striking
    Example
    - such poise is singular in one so young
  • grammatical number category referring to a single item or unit
  • composed of one member, set, or kind
  • the single one of its kind
    Examples
    - the unique existing example of Donne's handwriting
    - a unique copy of an ancient manuscript
    - certain types of problems have unique solutions
  • the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton

Meaning of "singular" in Hindi

  • एक ( Ek)
  • विशेष ( Vishesh, wishesh)
  • एकवचन ( Ekavachan, ekawachan)
  • एक वचन ( Ek vachan, ek wachan)
  • बडा ( Bada, badaa)
  • विख्यात ( Vikhyat, vikhyaat, wikhyat)
  • अनोखा ( Anokha, anokhaa)
  • निराला ( Nirala, niraalaa)
  • अकेला ( Akela, akelaa)
  • अद्वितीय ( Advitiy, adviteey, adwitiy)
  • बड़ा ( Bada, badaa)
  • एकमात्र ( Ekamatr, ekamaatr)
  • विचित्र ( Vichitr, wichitr)
  • अजीब ( Ajib, ajeeb, azib)
  • अनूठा ( Anutha, anoothaa)

Synonyms of "singular"

  • remarkable
  • rummy
  • rum
  • singular form
  • odd
  • peculiar
  • unique
  • queer
  • funny
  • curious

Antonyms of "singular"

  • plural form
  • plural

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