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• The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. It’s therefore not surprising that most cameras mimic this arrangement.
• Can you give me a single reason not to leave right now?   The vase contained a single long-stemmed rose.
• The potatoes left the spoon and landed in a single big lump on the plate.
• a single room
• a single combat
• These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, [...] / Who now defies thee thrice to single fight.
• Forms often ask if a person is single, married, divorced or widowed. In this context, a person who is dating someone but who has never married puts "single".
• Josh put down that he was a single male on the dating website.
• Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
• Single chose to live, and shunned to wed.
• Therefore, when thyne eye is single: then is all thy boddy full off light. Butt if thyne eye be evyll: then shall all thy body be full of darknes?
• I speak it with a single heart.
• Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound.
• He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice.
• He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there.
• The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album.
• I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change.
• Yvonne always wondered why Ernest had singled her out of the group of giggling girls she hung around with.
• Eddie singled out his favorite marble from the bag.
• dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark
• Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention.
• Paul went joyfully, and spent the afternoon helping to hoe or to single turnips with his friend.
• Many very fleet horses, when overdriven, adopt a disagreeable gait, which seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite, simultaneously. Such horses are said to single, or to be single-footed.
• an agent singling itself from consorts
• men [...] commendable when they are singled
• «No, I'm single», said Maria when asked if she was married. -- Non, je suis célibataire, dit Maria quand on lui demanda si elle était mariée.
• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. (Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen)
• She has said not a single word about her pregnancy.