only survivor

collocation in English

meaningsofonlyandsurvivor

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only
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈəʊn.li/us
/ˈoʊn.li/
used to show that there is a single one or very few of something, or that there are ...
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survivor
noun[C]
uk
/səˈvaɪ.vər/us
/sɚˈvaɪ.vɚ/
a person who continues to live, despite ...
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(Definition ofonlyandsurvivorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Theonlysurvivorof those on board was the steward, who has suffered serious injuries.
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I am theonlysurvivorhere tonight of the ministerial team who put shorthold tenancies on the statute book.
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I deeply regret to say that, so far as known, the master of the vessel is theonlysurvivor.
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I am theonlysurvivorin this country of those who started it.
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As is already known, one occupant of one of the aircraft made a safe descent by parachute, and was theonlysurvivorof the accident.
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I am theonlysurvivorof the particular band who served at that period, for two of them died of the experiments we conducted.
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He must be theonlysurvivor.
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Shiga soon finds them and says that he is theonlysurvivor.
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The story is told by theonlysurvivorof this war, who becomes thus the tribe's king.
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He had lost his parents and little brother in a car accident and was theonlysurvivoras a young child.
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Farhan, who was theonlysurvivor, remained alone in their home for three days.
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It is theonlysurvivorof the four tower which once defended each corner of the bridge.
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Makoto was left theonlysurvivor, barely managing to escape death herself.
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One passenger, out of the sixteen, awoke and adopted the procedure, and he was theonlysurvivor.
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She had contracted it during an incident that wiped out her entire hometown, leaving her as possibly theonlysurvivor.
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