Example sentences for: single-handedly

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

  • A column by Mike Downey in the Sunday LAT brought word of an invention that could single-handedly reverse the tide of tabloidism: a miniature device worn on a cap or as jewelry that, whenever a photographer tries to take the wearer's picture, emits a picture-ruining flash.

  • Tom Kurlak cannot leap tall buildings in a single bound, but he can single-handedly make stock prices rise or fall.

  • Bronfman, whom some consider the "Jewish pope," is portrayed as a relentless crusader who single-handedly "unhinged" Switzerland.

  • The remarkable work on civil rights done by Robert Kennedy's Justice Department bore a distinctly Republican stamp: John Doar, a celebrated member of that team--who single-handedly stopped an incipient riot at Medgar Evars' funeral by stepping into an angry crowd and yelling, "Anybody around here knows that I stand for what's right!"

  • Toni Morrison has been praised for using magical realism in the style of Gabriel García Márquez and for the literary black feminism she established almost single-handedly in novels like The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1974), and Song of Solomon (1977).


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