How to Use not one person in a Sentence

not one person

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  • And then there was not one person that looked like us on the walls.
    Victoria Zhuang, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2021
  • There's not one person that hasn't been touched by this and somebody has to step up.
    Amanda Morris, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Because the protocol was so strict, not one person got sick on the crew.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Trump’s name but said the populist movement is about ideas, not one person.
    David Bauder, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2022
  • When the final vote was taken, not one person who had been in that room voted no.
    Phil Gramm, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Of the millions of shots administered, not one person has died because of the shots.
    Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 18 Mar. 2021
  • There's not one person who didn't lose something as a result of the pandemic.
    Howard Megdal, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Not one person is here by accident, and there’s not one person who just stumbled off the street.
    Matt Murschel, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2022
  • In that period of time, not one person at a sporting event took a knee in protest to the national anthem or to the waving of the flag.
    Jeannie Roberts, Arkansas Online, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Funai had failed to stop the attacks on its base, arresting not one person.
    Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
  • That not one person in that room was thinking about that night’s game against the Indiana Pacers in that moment?
    Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Nov. 2021
  • In the history of Barstool, not one person that left has ever regained ownership of the I.P.
    David Marchese, New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • My friend was let go with a verbal warning, we were escorted out of the mall, and not one person, not even my friend, apologized to me.
    Brianna Holt, The Atlantic, 3 June 2020
  • And the final take away from this essay is that nobody—not one person—needs a £34 Romaine wedge salad with two white anchovies and half an egg.
    Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Hey, John: Antonetti would be the first to tell you that such an honor belongs to the whole organization and not one person.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Meanwhile, not one person has mentioned Kevin pulling Josh Malina out of a burning car.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 May 2021
  • People around the world have donned the magical yellow lenses—but, to date, there is not one person who has managed to play the Sims until 2 A.M. and still get a decent night’s sleep.
    Caitlin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 15 June 2021
  • To this day, not one person has ever been held accountable and not a single cent of reparations has been paid to the survivors or the victims' descendants.
    Cnn Opinion, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021
  • While everyone was on the field firsthand feeling and seeing the emotions that were happening not one person was thinking about what was about to happen.
    Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Yet when the patient is not one person but an entire society, this cycle is fractured and ad hoc in ways that would make any patient demand a new doctor.
    Jonathan Zittrain, STAT, 5 Mar. 2021
  • But the dream of a California-like Georgia was burst when a health inspector (Melissa Villaseñor) entered and noted that not one person was wearing a mask.
    NBC News, 31 Jan. 2021
  • Although the name may suggest otherwise, PBMs are not one person, or even a department within a company.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Dave, by then, had spent several weeks at the shelter — and not one person had showed interest in adopting him, according to the Humane Society of Midland County.
    Fox News, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Officials had initially said two patrons, not one person, took the gun from the attacker, before revising that account and saying Tsay alone disarmed the shooter.
    Mark Berman, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2023
  • More than a year later, not one person has been held responsible for a peacetime explosion that harmed more people than any single violent episode in Lebanon’s long, troubled history.
    New York Times, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Abiy’s press office declined to respond to discrepancies between his recent claim that not one person was hurt by the federal military offensive in Tigray and Red Cross reports from hospitals that hundreds have been wounded.
    Jacob Kushner, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2020
  • There was not one person whose power could not be in danger of being compromised if there was even a whisper of possible homosexuality activity.
    Jillian Eugenios, NBC News, 2 June 2022
  • Meanwhile, not one person who propagated lies about the election or encouraged revolution has suffered consequences for their actions.
    Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023

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