single sentence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsingleandsentence
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single
adjective
uk/ˈsɪŋ.ɡəl/us/ˈsɪŋ.ɡəl/
one ...
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sentence
noun[C]
uk/ˈsen.təns/us/ˈsen.təns/
a group of words, usually containing a verb, that expresses a thought in the form of a statement, question, instruction, or exclamation and starts with a capital letter ...
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(Definition ofsingleandsentencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Finally, in asinglesentence, the lawyers mentioned the principle of contributory negligence.
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For describing some entities, writers need several paragraphs, while for others, what is known can be expressed in asinglesentence.
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This approach is corroborated by the order found when three or more auxiliaries occur in asinglesentence.
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It is true that this term does not seem very precise, and it is impossible to define it in asinglesentence.
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Our subset-free triggers are analogous to a telltale consisting of asinglesentence.
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These findings suggest that adult speakers adjust their articulation on the basis of the semantic predictability present in asinglesentence.
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The number of charges exceeds the number of farmers charged because some farmers were charged with several crimes, but given asinglesentence.
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Class, race, and ethnicity - other key dimensions of power asymmetry - are mentioned only once, in the introduction, in asinglesentence(14).
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Philosophical reconstruction may involve the correction of presumptive errors, and in the present case the correction would affect only asinglesentence.
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Chapter 6 looks beyond thesinglesentence, focusing on the pragmatics of dialogue and the development of narrative in children aged three through nine years.
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Surely such a wrong, the essence of which can be conveyed even by lawyers in asinglesentence, requires little in the way of analysis.
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Usually, several different parse trees can be derived for asinglesentence, and in that case their probabilities provide a preference ordering.
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The past decade has seen a growing interest in generating paragraph length (as opposed tosinglesentence) passages of text.
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We thus see "discourse" - that is, an exchange of turns at talk between two speakers - embedded within the boundaries of asinglesentence.
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Animals and evil spirits are even allowed to use words from different languages in asinglesentence.
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It does not seek to somehow capture the essence of religion in asinglesentence.
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