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:

  • These two men were instrumental in orchestrating an amazing economic expansion that almost single-handedly converted the island from an underdeveloped backwater into a pace-setting industrial society.

  • Her third book, Promiscuities , is a memoir in which she single-handedly "retrieve[s] [the] secret struggle for womanhood" by narrating her own sexual coming of age.

  • Nonetheless, one has to admire his guts for trying to entertain an audience single-handedly with a talk about Middle East politics, no less.

  • David "I Made Paula Jones Famous" Brock, who wants everyone to know that he deeply regrets single-handedly bringing down the president, isn't the only journalist to have reported the allegations of Arkansas state troopers who claim to have procured women for then-Gov. Clinton.

  • Commentators who saw video of the trial noted that the aged defendant didn't look like a man who killed so many people single-handedly, that the henchmen who had helped him do it are escaping justice, and that one of them (dictator Hun Sen) is on his way to becoming the next Pol Pot.


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