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How to use one in a sentence

40 example sentences · numeral, pronoun, noun

One means the number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number. Example: “In some religions, there is more than one god.”

Examples of one by meaning

numeralThe number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.

  • In some religions, there is more than one god.
  • In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth.
  • One person, one vote.

pronounOne thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.

  • Any one of the boys.
  • Every one of the bank’s employees.
  • A good driver is one who drives carefully.

pronounThe first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.

  • She offered him an apple and an orange; he took (the) one and left the other.
  • I am one of the few women who've climbed Everest.

pronounAny person (applying to people in general).

  • One’s guilt may trouble one, but it is best not to let oneself be troubled by things which cannot be changed. One shouldn’t be too quick to judge.
  • My neighbor talks to one like a teacher.
  • ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

pronounAny person, entity or thing.

  • "driver", noun: one who drives.

nounThe digit or figure 1.

  • This effectively allows switching on and off of the flow of current, so it is either conducting or not conducting, creating the binary system of zeroes and ones used in digital computers.2024 January 4, Matthew Sparkes, “First working graphene semiconductor could lead to faster computers”, in New Scientist, archived from the...

nounA one-dollar bill.

  • I need some ones to make change.

nounOne o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.

  • A carriage clock had been placed on the discoloured wooden mantelpiece, and slowly its hands crept on from one to two and from two to three.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which Three Investigators Come across a Dark Soul”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no....

More sentences with one

  • We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.From the entry minute
  • She bartered a bonsai for one of the rare books in my library.From the entry barter
  • One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting.From the entry name
  • He was abandoned on the island with no one to help him.From the entry abandon
  • "I never could abide shoemakers," said an old servant,—and it ended in her marrying one.From the entry abide
  • That horse is twenty-to-one on, so you need to stake twenty pounds just to win one pound.From the entry on
  • The fight was three on one, and he never stood a chance.From the entry on
  • My cat Fluffy has odd eyes: one blue and one brown.From the entry odd
  • No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.From the entry the
  • The notion of culture is one whose meanings are plural and shifting.From the entry plural
  • Intersex babies account for roughly one per cent of all births.From the entry birth
  • A quarter day is one terminating a quarter of the year.From the entry quarter
  • A quarter session is one held quarterly at the end of a quarter.From the entry quarter
  • Pilsner is one of the most commonly served beers in Europe.From the entry beer
  • There is just one woman in town who can help us.From the entry be
  • (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.From the entry be
  • Mormonism is a new religion, while Zoroastrianism is an old one.From the entry religion
  • When you say last Monday, do you mean the Monday just gone, or the one before that?From the entry last
  • The frequency of bus service has been improved from one every 15 to one every 12 minutes.From the entry frequency
  • The play "Two Gentlemen of Verona" is one of Shakespeare's early works.From the entry early
  • Are you going to buy a new car or a second-hand one?From the entry new
  • I love the one where he orders a cup of tea but then chaos ensues! LOL!From the entry lol
  • Hannibal was one of the greatest generals of the ancient world.From the entry general
  • The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no".From the entry yes
  • This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.From the entry stand

Meaning of one

  1. numeral The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
  2. numeral The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
  3. numeral The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.

Full definition of one

Questions about one in a sentence

How do you use one in a sentence?
One is used as a numeral, pronoun and noun. For example: “In some religions, there is more than one god.”
What is a short sentence with one?
“One person, one vote.”
What does one mean?
One means the number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: one (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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