Singly
['sɪŋglɪ] or ['sɪŋɡli]
Definition
(adv.) Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good.
(adv.) Only; by one's self; alone.
(adv.) Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack another singly.
(adv.) Honestly; sincerely; simply.
(adv.) Singularly; peculiarly.
Checker: Raffles
Examples
- In the same odd way, yet with the same rapidity, he then produced singly, and rubbed out singly, the letters forming the words Bleak House. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In the early form of the revolver the empty cartridge cases had to be ejected from the cylinder singly by an ejector rod or handy nail. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The strength of a motor may be increased by replacing the singly coiled armature by one closely wound on an iron core; in some armatures there are thousands of turns of wire. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Mr. George therefore soon proposes to walk singly. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- All men, taken singly, are more or less selfish; and taken in bodies, they are intensely so. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Let us consider some of the virtues singly. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Crossley jointly, and then Otto singly, subsequently patented notable improvements. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Forrest escaped with about 1,000 and others were leaving singly and in squads all night. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They walked on towards the town, towards where the lamps threaded singly, at long intervals down the dark high-road of the valley. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- No white-haired man was there now; but, the three men were there who had gone out of the wine-shop singly. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He spoke well, very well; such an harangue would have succeeded better addressed to me singly, than to the fools and knaves assembled yonder. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- According to our experience, abrupt and strongly marked variations occur in our domesticated productions, singly and at rather long intervals of time. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- But misfortunes never come singly. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Each of them, however, taken singly, contributes often but a very small share to the maintenance of any individual of this greater number. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Checker: Raffles