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• For all their many virtues the Romans appear to have been singularly lacking in curiosity.2015 [1938], “Forty years of evolution theory”, in Joseph Needham, Walter Pagel, editors, Background to Modern Science, reprint edition…. From the entry ovinely
• It's a uniquely female ritual, and the term itself evokes a singularly female image.2013 December 4, Jill Filipovic, “The only shameful thing about sex is justifying outdated views with 'science'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry walk of shame
• That last paragraph leads us to a singularly important aspect of the syndrome of cold back.1998, James R. Rooney, The Lame Horse, page 198. From the entry cold back
• Occasionally, however, lawyers and judges use a term which is singularly inappropriate.1980. The Chinese Wall Defense to Law Firm Disqualification 128 U.Pa.L.Rev. 677. From the entry Chinese Wall
• And so an unsuccessful bookseller writes after his shop is closed on a singularly unsatisfactory day.[1938], [William Darling], “Destroy the Books”, in The Bankrupt Bookseller Speaks Again, Edinburgh; London: Oliver and Boyd, →OCLC, page 212. From the entry what is one to do
• But by this name of cryptomnesia or resurrection of latent memories, two singularly different things are understood.1900, Th[éodore] Flournoy, “The Hindoo Cycle”, in Daniel B. Vermilye, transl., From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of…. From the entry cryptomnesia
• The cantonments, it transpired, were singularly ill-sited for defence, being built on low, marshy ground, overlooked by hills on all sides.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 220. From the entry cantonment
• Further, he was singularly cleanhanded, as Ottoman officials go.1922, Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram, The Cradle of Mankind: Life in Eastern Kurdistan, →ISBN. From the entry cleanhanded
• The irises of those eyes, whose pupils were blacker than atrament, varied singularly in shades of shifting colour.1908, Théophile Gautier, “King Candaules”, in Lafcadio Hearn, transl., Stories, New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, →OCLC, page 91. From the entry atrament
• Its singularly serendipitous nature lends itself to romantic novelisation (book cross-dressing, as it were) or Ludlumesque thrillers (book double-crossing, so to speak).2006, Stephen Brown, “Rattles from the Swill Bucket”, in Stephen Brown, editor, Consuming Books: The Marketing and Consumption of…. From the entry Ludlumesque
• The plot traces the shock, shame, bitterness and desperation of a singularly nice young widow and mother unable to prove her marriage after an elopment.1957 December 14, “'Eighteen and Anxious' Opens at Paramount”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry elopment
• Any honest New Englander—a New Englander of the villages, I mean—will admit that the New English are singularly ungifted for social life and manners.1920, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, “Miss Alcott's New England”, in Modes and Morals, New York: C. Scribner's sons, →OCLC, page 195. From the entry New English
• The abatons, lofty and airy sleeping chambers with their southern sides and open colonnade, are singularly like the open balconies of our tuberculosis sanatoria.1912, James J. Walsh, “Great Physicians in Psychotherapy”, in Psychotherapy, New York: D. Appleton and Company. From the entry abaton
• The first thing needful is to look the facts squarely in the face; and this is singularly appropriate in the discussion of whiskerage.1907, Harper's Weekly, volume 52, page 28. From the entry whiskerage
• Black-white biracials who are Baptist may be more inclined than nonreligious black-white biracials to identify as singularly black because they perceive a stronger emotional racial attachment to African Americans.2018, Lauren Davenport, Politics Beyond Black and White, page 60. From the entry biracial
• On the other hand, the god was known to be singularly obtuse, so that petitioning women had to peel open the divine eyelids and unwax the divine ears.2011, Catherine Lim, The Bondmaid. From the entry unwax
• While best known for lending her haunting pipes to doom-folk troupe Espers, Meg Baird's quavering voice reveals itself as singularly lucid and enchanting on her solo work.2011 October, Andy Beta, SPIN, page 73. From the entry doom folk
• Earlier in the year he had written to Backhouse, 'will it not then be singularly hard if we cannot find time to unbombast the impudence of the matchless Jonathan?'Quoted in: 1999, Dawn Currie, Girl Talk: Adolescent Magazines and Their Readers (page 11). From the entry unbombast
• Professor Gran's peculiar insight into the literary mind and its curious, often repulsive, peculiarities is singularly interesting, and casts an entirely new light upon the much bepondered Rousseau.1911, The Book Buyer, page 221. From the entry beponder
• The lobster telephone, the dissonant xenonymy of accidents in a chainpoem, the urinal in the art gallery and the sound poem at a literary evening are all only singularly convulsive.2012, Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, Brian McHale, The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry xenonymy

Meaning of singularly

1. adverb Strangely; oddly.
2. adverb Extremely; remarkably.
3. adverb In the singular number; in terms of a single thing.

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Questions about singularly in a sentence

How do you use singularly in a sentence?

Singularly is used as an adverb. For example: “He behaved most singularly when we met him last night.”

What is a short sentence with singularly?

“Further, he was singularly cleanhanded, as Ottoman officials go.”

What does singularly mean?

Singularly means strangely; oddly.