Example sentences for: single-minded

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

  • In his single-minded focus on software, and his insistence that Microsoft create programs that could run on multiple platforms, Gates shaped a business that was almost a textbook example of how to achieve increasing returns on capital.

  • They knew how to get at the truth without any interference from civil libertarians seeking to burden their single-minded pursuits with such as privacy, bodily integrity, fairness, and civility.

  • In 1993 Hayes, who had returned to private legal practice and had begun to question his old single-minded formulation, proposed to Mayor-elect Rudy Giuliani that the court order be revised so that the city would guarantee the homeless the "continuum of care" that Cuomo had proposed, and the homeless in turn would be obliged to accept counseling, work training, and the like.

  • US magazine readers, for example, used to be so single-minded that Collier's, Saturday Evening Post , and few others were all they needed.

  • There’s little time for recreation in this sometimes harsh environment, and though local residents may come across as pragmatic and single-minded, you’ll find them in a more relaxed mood at the end of a hard day’s work, enjoying a pint of beer and game of dominoes at the local pub.


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