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:

  • The Saudis could single-handedly depress the market by flooding it with oil, as they did in 1986 in order to discipline recalcitrant OPEC members.

  • Invigorated à la Popeye the Sailor Man, he proceeded to capture the enemy regiment single-handedly.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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


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