How to Use single in a Sentence

single

1 of 3 adjective

• A single shoe was found.
• It costs $10 for a single glass of wine!
• He earns $2,000 in a single week.
• Most bands of that size learn a single set and play it all tour.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2023
• With two outs, Clemens hit a single off Lange's fourth-pitch 96.8 mph sinker over the heart of the plate to end the game.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2023
• The sleeve art for the single was designed by the noted artist Ed Ruscha.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Oct. 2023
• Think of the club as a single stock that gained 53% in that interlude.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 June 2023
• Smith, who drove in that inning’s first run, hit a single in the next at-bat.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 27 May 2023
• The image was intended to be on the cover of the single bag and is now on the disc as a UV print.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 28 Feb. 2024
• Her mom Nalini is processing the loss of the love of her life as a single mom.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 9 June 2023
• Cherry is a single 30-year-old who decides to have a one-night stand with a hot stranger.
  — Michael Stillwell, townandcountrymag.com, 28 May 2023
• Heyward, the No. 6 hitter, started the bottom of the inning with a single to right.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• No single leader from the global South is likely to emerge at present.
  — Leslie Vinjamuri, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2023
• When they were booked on the same tour bill in 2018, the musicians set out to record one single together.
  — Natalia Barr, WSJ, 9 June 2023
• For almost a month, not a single American was able to leave.
  — Rozina Ali, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
• Now, a single tweet from Kelce could have Swifties swapping out their helmets for hoops.
  — David Wysong, The Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2024
• Just think of the number of different things that will eat a single insect species.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 13 Sep. 2023
• That last run broke the record for most nominations by a show in a single season with 32.
  — Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2023
• New leases are being signed in the downtown area and other parts of the city in every single day.
  — ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• The Brazilian singer won Best Latin for the single—her first for her new label Republic.
  — Matthew Ismael Ruiz, Pitchfork, 13 Sep. 2023
• With a solid plunk, the metal sphere found its home just before the single minute allotted for the task ran out.
  — Rachel Lance, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
• In a single day, Hurricane Otis went from a nuisance to a monster.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
• The Netherlands went into halftime with that single goal lead.
  — Anne M. Peterson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
• There were chemistry, smooth vocals and an infectious beat, and it was laid down in a single take.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• That path began with a single conversation in the weight room.
  — Luke Barr, ABC News, 28 May 2023
• That was the most walk-off kicks ever made in any single weekend in NFL history.
  — Jasmine Cui, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• And the drive to go in there after practice and spend more time every single day getting better.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
• To accessorize, the royal chose a diamond bow brooch, a single bracelet, and navy pumps.
  — Town & Country, 6 May 2023
• No major league team in the entirety of the 20th century lost so many games in a single season.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
• One of our editors says she’s used it in nearly every single workout for the last six months.
  — Jessica Kasparian, SELF, 15 Apr. 2024

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single

2 of 3 noun

• He hit a single to right field.
• Do you want to play singles or doubles?
• And that was one of the big singles off the first album.
  — Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 11 Dec. 2023
• The single is one of two new tracks from her EP The Bridge.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023
• There are tracks that could (and should) be hit singles, but that’s not the point.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023
• Bryce Boettcher works the count full and singles to left.
  — oregonlive, 11 June 2023
• The Killers have dropped a new single in honor of the holidays.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2023
• Appel’s leadoff single was the first Quaker hit of the game.
  — Nubyjas Wilborn | [e-mail], al, 3 June 2023
• There were divorcees and singles who ranged in age from their early 20s to their mid-50s.
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• That tied the score at 2-2, erasing the early lead the Dodgers had taken on Teoscar Hernández’s two-run single in the top of the first.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• Brody Schumaker also drove in a run with a single in the third.
  — Michael Huntley, Orange County Register, 5 Apr. 2024
• The preceding singles have turned out to be slight red herrings in the build-up to release.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
• The rapper, whose debut LP Montero dropped in 2021, confirmed that there is, at the very least, a single on the way.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2023
• Meet the Charlotte singles starring in the new season of ‘Love is Blind’ on Netflix.
  — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 26 Feb. 2024
• René Pinto followed with a single that drove in two more runs.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• The new version, which was teased earlier this week, of the hit single sees the pair sharing vocals as a duet.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
• Dixon followed with a single to give the Bluebirds an early 2-0 lead.
  — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 28 May 2023
• In Game 2 against the Brewers, Marte’s two-run single in the sixth inning gave the Diamondbacks a 3-2 lead.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• Looking at the full 50-spot singles chart in the nation, Swift dominates.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• The duo — Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé — have also released the first two singles from the album.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2024
• Tyler Freeman, who added an RBI single, has hit safely in four straight games.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2023
• Lucy Sherburne reached on an error and scored on a single by Ashley Wood.
  — Jim Lindgren, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2024
• Those early singles would get new boosts from her first-ever tour in 1985 and continue to stand the test of time for both old and new fans of the pop queen.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2023
• Though he's released a few one-off singles in the years since, the musician told iFL that he's been hard at work on a follow-up record.
  — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
• After blowing a four-run lead, the Rockies won the game, 7-6, with a walk-off single from Ezequiel Tovar.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 25 May 2023
• Glasser hit a two-out single in the ninth in hopes of extending the Hoosiers' hopes, but Indiana fell short of a rally.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 6 June 2023
• Monét wrote the hit single from her latest album just eight weeks after her daughter was born; much like Hazel, the song was fate.
  — Essence, 26 Oct. 2023
• Check out this teaser video below where they lip-sync Friends dialogue to tease the new single.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2023
• And Bryan will do a medley in celebration of his 30 No. 1 singles.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
• Forty years ago Noah etched his name into the history of France, winning the French Open men’s singles title.
  — Matthew Futterman James Hill, New York Times, 5 June 2023

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single

3 of 3 verb

• He singled to right field.
• Willy Adames led off with a walk and Jesse Winker singled him to third.
  — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 16 July 2023
• Naylor singled home Steven Kwan with his fourth hit of the night.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2023
• Shohei Ohtani singled twice, drove in a run and walked ahead of Freeman’s slam.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• Carter singled to right and Semien doubled high off the left field wall to score Carter.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2023
• Ohtani singled in the sixth and grounded out against left-hander Tim Mayza in the eighth.
  — Ian Harrison, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
• Head coach Sam Scholl wouldn’t single out Brown-Soares for the problem.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2022
• Brasfield singled in the fifth and doubled in the sixth inning.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 24 Mar. 2023
• Caballero singled with no outs in the third and stole second and third with one out.
  — Kristie Rieken, oregonlive, 8 July 2023
• Trailing by a run, Ryan Higgins singles home a run to get Aberdeen on the board in the bottom of the third.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 25 July 2023
• Vallery Wong hit a sacrifice fly to score Bird and Bunker singled in a pair to make it 7-0.
  — oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2023
• Kite surfing, singles tennis in the morning and the evening, and biking.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 15 Apr. 2023
• Bill Russell singled up the middle for the go-ahead run and Mike Garman shut down the Phillies in the bottom of the inning for the win.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• Using a cut-and-dry approach may single them out and shut them down.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 9 Feb. 2024
• All of it comes into play rather than just trying to single it on one group.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 26 Feb. 2022
• Bichette singled and went to third on a single by Guerrero.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• But the first two hitters who saw Fan singled and later scored.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 27 Aug. 2023
• Coulombe kept the deficit at one, allowing the Orioles to even the game in the sixth when Rutschman singled in the tying run on the eighth pitch of his at-bat.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2023
• After the game resumed, Ozzie Albies singled on the second pitch to bring Acuña across the plate for a 6-5 Braves win.
  — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Your goal is to single out those who stay calm and move forward no matter what.
  — Alla Adam, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• Whitlock hit Jesse Winker before Willy Adames singled to load the bases.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
• García took a walk in four plate appearances; Jung singled in the ninth.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
• Guerrero singled to open the bottom of the ninth, Matt Chapman walked on four pitches and Daulton Varsho was hit by a pitch to load the bases.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2023
• Kavanagh then singled up the middle to tie the game, Alabama 2, Troy 2.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 4 June 2023
• Connor Wong singled with two outs in the third before Verdugo fouled out.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
• Faith Pinho: But from that point on, Paulina couldn’t help but feel like the teacher was singling her out.
  — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• Jose Abreu singled on a first-pitch slider toward the outside edge.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 1 July 2023
• Nola singled in his first at-bat of the spring, finishing Monday’s game 1-for-3 as the Royals beat the Cubs 6-0.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2024
• Corbin Carroll singled to center in the fifth, then stole second and third on back-to-back pitches with two out.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 2 Apr. 2023
• The former Wimbledon girls singles champion is happy to call out nonsense and venom in a moderate manner.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024