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:

  • Faith in the virtues of markets rests on a theory whose assumptions are not just untenable but patently absurd: People are rational and perfectly informed, firms are too small to move prices single-handedly and seek only to maximize profits, and so on--an error that, for some reason, economists have failed to spot.

  • The other is to read Christopher Ruddy's new book, The Strange Death of Vincent Foster . Ruddy, of course, is the Inspector Clouseau of the Foster case--a determined, if bumbling, former New York Post reporter who has virtually single-handedly spawned a cottage industry of conspiracy buffs dedicated to the proposition that a foul and monstrous cover-up surrounds the circumstances of Foster's death.

  • 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.

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

  • Many people think Microsoft can easily separate Windows and IE if it wants to, but nobody would claim that Microsoft can single-handedly re-create the culture of Washington.


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