One

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"One" in a Sentence (96 examples)

One can always find time.

One can't expect everything from schools.

No one will know.

All you can do is trust one another.

In the 1950's, the Finns were cited as having one of the least healthy diets in the world.

One million people lost their lives in the war.

Poor is not the one who has too little, but the one who wants too much.

To be perfect she lacked just one defect.

You found me where no one else was looking.

I'd like to stay for one night.

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In some religions, there is more than one god.

In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth.

One person, one vote.

A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.

One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do / Two can be as bad as one / It's the loneliest number since the number one

In 1964, Dupuy developed the “Theoretical Lethality Index” (TLI), which calculated the lethal capacity of weapons across time. The TLI table showed how many persons a soldier with a weapon could theoretically kill in one hour.

Any one of the boys.

Every one of the bank’s employees.

A good driver is one who drives carefully.

Can I borrow an eraser? — Sorry pal, I haven't got one.

He's not one to pull his punches.

Which happies thoſe that pay the willing lone; / That's for thy ſelfe to breed an other thee / Or ten times happier be it ten for one,[…]

She offered him an apple and an orange; he took (the) one and left the other.

I am one of the few women who've climbed Everest.

Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

One’s guilt may trouble one, but it is best not to let oneself be troubled by things which cannot be changed.  One shouldn’t be too quick to judge.

My neighbor talks to one like a teacher.

It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.

She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace,[…]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…] — all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.

‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’

With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…].

One has to admire the sheer optimism of modern science: I love the fact that there is such a discipline as astrobiology, whose practitioners' task is to imagine what life might be like on other planets. Yet here on the home planet we have profoundly strange aliens of our own.

"driver", noun: one who drives.

This effectively allows switching on and off of the flow of current, so it is either conducting or not conducting, creating the binary system of zeroes and ones used in digital computers.

I need some ones to make change.

It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

The ophthalmic surgeon attends Tuesdays and Saturdays, at half-past one.

It was a weary time. A carriage clock had been placed on the discoloured wooden mantelpiece, and slowly its hands crept on from one to two and from two to three.

Did you hear the one about the agnostic dyslexic insomniac?

I had a quick one after work

There’s nothing better than drinking a cold one when the weather’s boiling outside

Just a quick one before work

Now, he's a curious one.

Well, well, well, it seems the silent one does have a voice, after all.

That's the one to watch if you want to win.

He's not one for pulling his punches.

Pause. They look meaningly at one another. / "You are a one for being roundabout," says the lady.

Oh, most merciful one!

Hey, sleepy one.

I knew as soon I met him that John was the one for me and we were married within a month.

That car's the one — I'll buy it.

When you love a woman then tell her / that she's really wanted / When you love a woman then tell her that she's the one / 'cause she needs somebody to tell her / that it's gonna last forever

Finally got Ollie Martin. He couldn't have more poise, and what do I care if he is one?

A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!1!?1!

B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1!

2003 September 26, "DEAL WITH IT!!!!11one!!", in alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube, Usenet

2004 November 9, "AWK sound recorder!!!11!!11one", in comp.lang.awk, Usenet

2007 December 1, "STANFORD!!1!!1!one!11!!1oneone!1!1!", in rec.sport.football.college, Usenet

One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries.

One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.

My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other."

He is the one man who can help you.

The one male audience member at the concert is invited on stage.

Body and soul are not separate; they are one.

We are one on the importance of learning.

The two types look very different, but are one species.

There was one box of biscuits available.

He is one hell of a guy.

The town records from 1843 showed the overnight incarceration of one “A. Lincoln”.

The question, of course, evokes discernment, not dogma, but we should note that the "unknowing" involves intellectual knowledge, whereas the problematic of being "oned" involves experiential knowledge.

And both shall be oned in eternal happiness.

Knit and oned to God human beings are irrevocably in relationship with the divine.

What might be if we were Oned? United, as we would say, but at a greater depth than being a season ticket holder in a football club, or a shareholder in some conglomerate.

Got almonds one.

How come so heavy one ah?

Can one, why cannot?

Need to take train one.

'My boyfriends very possessive one. They don't allow me to wear clothes I want, do things I want,' she laments.

Why so special one?

Actually when she said don’t need to go hospital I was less worried already, don’t have to stay in hospital means not so serious one.

These fish, ah, anything also eat one. Small fish, each other, anything you throw in also they take.

Only sweet hands can draw sweet water, you know that. If I take the water myself, sure salty one.

When I was a kid, kena rotan also cannot learn one but when I had peace of mind, it was easy.

“There is no such thing as president of the world. But there is one king of the world. I am king of the world. Bigger than you!” “Where got king, one? Who say so? You play cheat.” “My mother say got. You don’t believe me you ask her.”

For me, I’m very drama one lah. I just want it to be very big, and to display our theatrics.

My friend send one.

Who say one?

He ask one, not I ask one.

ooooooooooar! you own self admit one har! i never say one har!

Can easily get lost one, know?

The sell fruits one go home already.

The bird that make a lot of noise one is gone already.

And He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised.

Hopefully, after reading this chapter, this reflection upon Christianity versus skepticism will cause each of us to contemplate more critically upon the One who died for us so that we might live for Him.

I would encourage you to make your own investigation of the One who, as He died, prayed for those who killed Him

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