Sentence Examples

1. Nevertheless, what could be seen was of a nature singular and exciting.
2. A singular presence rose in his spine to his neck.
3. At thirty-three minutes past two he heard a singular noise outside, then a hasty opening of doors.
4. Beheld the singular phenomenon of the sun rising while nearly the whole visible surface of the earth continued to be involved in darkness.
5. This was, to be sure, a singular recontre, for I had not believed it possible that a cloud of this nature could be sustained at so great an elevation.
6. Another reproduced the most singular combinations with a spinning-top in his hands the revolving tops seemed to be animated with a life of their own in their interminable whirling they ran over pipe-stems, the edges of sabres, wires and even hairs stretched across the stage they turned around on the edges of large glasses, crossed bamboo ladders, dispersed into all the corners, and produced strange musical effects by the combination of their various pitches of tone.
7. Arose in good health and spirits, and was astonished at the singular change which had taken place in the appearance of the sea.
8. They had work to do, a mystery to solve, and she would focus on that work with singular devotion.
9. Poe has displayed with singular distinctness in his prose works, the last predominating in his earlier tales, and the first in his later ones.
10. There Passepartout beheld beautiful fir and cedar groves, sacred gates of a singular architecture, bridges half hid in the midst of bamboos and reeds, temples shaded by immense cedar-trees, holy retreats where were sheltered Buddhist priests and sectaries of Confucius, and interminable streets, where a perfect harvest of rose-tinted and red-cheeked children, who looked as if they had been cut out of Japanese screens, and who were playing in the midst of short-legged poodles and yellowish cats, might have been gathered.