Example sentences for: only

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

  • Subsequently, this enzyme apparently has been expunged from the cellular RNA synthesis systems and survived only in some parasitic elements, such as bacteriophages, through which it might have been reintroduced into the genome of an ancestral eukaryote.

  • A real-estate broker who fails to sell a big house (her only potential customers are blank-faced African-Americans, Indian-Americans, and surly lesbians), she wears a mask of perky efficiency and insists on listening to Muzak while she and her husband and daughter eat her "nutritious yet savory" dinners.

  • The Talk Web site can only be described as ... well, revolutionary.

  • Only 26% of the human ORs have one or more cysteines in their carboxy-terminal regions, suggesting that carboxy-terminal palmitoylation, if it occurs, is not general for ORs.

  • Dad knows that the key to success lies in the early start he did not get, that only the savvy fledgling gets the worm.


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