Example sentences for: one-line

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

  • Shulman aside, you could find one-line descriptions of Goodman's main characters in any half-dozen American-Jewish novels: the rabbi with two sons, one brilliant and prodigal, one duller but more loyal; the Holocaust survivor numbed by his past; the daughters tempted by the twin heresies of feminism and Zionism (Israel is viewed as a nation of faithless sinners by these ultra-Orthodox Jews); the assimilationist Jew who comes to a bad end.

  • A lengthy passage, if written well, can be more expressive and have greater effect than a simple, one-line statement of fact.

  • Instead, by simplifying the "voting" process and flooding politicians with thousands of identical one-line e-mails, he obliterates the distinction not just between my opinion on vouchers and Bill Bennett's, but also between Bennett's intense interest in the issue and my faint interest in it.

  • How are we supposed to read a story containing a one-line disclaimer that contradicts its entire narrative thrust?

  • I e-mailed Macmillan with my problem and the company e-mailed back a one-line response: "Set your BIOS to boot off of the CD."


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