Example sentences for: one--and

How can you use “one--and” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Not an airtight argument (all anti-discrimination laws pick and choose among protected classes), but a cleverly textualist one--and one that seems to have helped convince a majority of the court to strike down the amendment, despite a lack of helpful precedent.

  • You really have to buy all three papers if you want to make one whole one--and the Wall Street Journal , if you'd like a business section, plus lifestyle pieces on how to spend $20,000 in a hurry.

  • Critics ignore the absurd premise--a cop (John Travolta) and a villain (Nicolas Cage) each undergoing plastic surgery to look like the other one--and take unabashed delight in the movie's "grandly operatic pulp" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Reviews credit Woo with giving violence "balletic grace" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ) as well as "moral gravity" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Cage and Travolta are deemed "two of the most daring, physically intuitive, soulful performers on screen" (Ansen).

  • There remain many unanswered questions about the Staples deal, of which the "journalism ethics" question is only one--and perhaps the least interesting.

  • I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have entered a public facility to find the ONLY stall occupied is the handicapped one--and by a person who did not need it!


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