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:

  • Apple has compared the Clintons to the F. Scott Fitzgerald characters Tom and Daisy Buchanan, who left a trail of broken friends in their single-minded social ascent.

  • De Palma is like a single-minded physics wizard who, with every new picture, sets out to demonstrate a different spatial/temporal theorem.

  • 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.

  • 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 like manner, a French teacher is one who teaches French; a French teacher is a citizen of France who teaches something; a grave -digger is a cemetery employee; a grave digger is a solemn archaelogist or perhaps a single-minded dog with a bone; and a head shrinker is not a head -shrinker but a chief launderer of woolens.


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