How to Use the one about in a Sentence

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• One of the book’s most surprising chapters, for me, was the one about um and uh.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2023
• My favorite chapter in this book is the one about Bruni’s dog.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• There was the one about the family’s pet rat, Mickey, and the one about the gang fight, when he got hit in the head with a bat with a nail in it.
  — Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• So many likes and replies—especially the one about dogs vs. cats.
  — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
• Didn’t America come up with the best of all jingles—the one about the pursuit of happiness?
  — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• There was the one about a gang initiation in Little Rock.
  — Eula Calahan, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2023
• These are better questions to focus on than the one about cheating.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2023
• Of all the cliches in modern sports, the worst, from this vantage point, is the one about controlling destiny.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
• But their other movie, the one about a crocodile, comes out Friday.
  — oregonlive, 6 Oct. 2022
• Here is the one about the precocious tyke who convinced her family to take a chance on a deaf puppy.
  — Washington Post, 25 June 2021
• Next year’s goal is to get knighted for the one about masturbating squirrels).
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2010
• The trickiest joke in Sledgehammer is the one about showering with your young son.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2023
• Cohen objected to the last two questions; only the one about drugs got sustained.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 27 Oct. 2023
• None of those quips are as threadbare and saddle-sore as the one about everything being bigger here.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Apr. 2023
• Conditionals such as the one about Kim and her dinner are the vehicles for exploring what might have been and what could be.
  — Kai Von Fintel, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2022
• The Jesus line is written in loose, white block letters; the one about zombies is stenciled neatly onto pale zinc.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
• All manner of stories were lumped together—like the one about my mother’s uncle or great-uncle who, in the early 1940s, had made a good deal on the sale of timber felled from his own land.
  — Tracy K. Smith, Vogue, 25 May 2021
• Like, the one about his final game, an exhibition in 1977 between the Cosmos and Pele’s longtime Brazilian club team, Santos.
  — Gregg Doyel indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Dec. 2022
• Her writing is lucid and her tone is warm; in her telling, certain myths, such as the one about Demeter and Persephone, are powerfully moving.
  — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2023
• One episode of the PBS documentary hit the young music enthusiast especially hard — the one about the folk revival of the early 1960s.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 23 June 2021
• Remember that popular story line in training camp, the one about the offense likely having to carry the defense for a change?
  — Star Tribune, 21 Sep. 2020
• There are lessons associated with that, to be sure, but none more enduring, in show-business terms, than the one about worshiping false idols.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 3 July 2023
• Take the one about a couple in Mueller, a planned development with houses, condos, and multifamily units, all on the grounds of the city’s former airport.
  — Paul L. Underwood, Curbed, 6 July 2021
• Recent news reports like the one about kids sitting on a curb outside Taco Bell with their Chromebooks, trying to connect to the internet to do their schoolwork, have thrown a spotlight on inequities.
  — Michael Addonizio, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2021
• But gossip carried on anyway across social media, with some speculation taking absurd spins (like the one about her getting lost at the Willy Wonka fair in Glasgow).
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 11 Mar. 2024
• As a beat writer, the goal was always to tell different kinds of stories like the one about the cemetery next to Bryant-Denny Stadium or drill down on the urban legend about apartments overlooking Alabama’s practice field.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 3 May 2023
• Some also note that just one episode of the series — the one about Hughes — is dedicated to telling a victim’s story, and a few critics say that even that episode romanticized Hughes’ relationship with Dahmer.
  — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2022
• Some are delightfully mundane, like the one about his father doing headstands every day in his underwear as part of his prescribed physical therapy.
  — Time, 10 Jan. 2023
• McConnell eventually answered two additional questions — though not the one about a 2026 campaign — and was halting and appeared to have some difficulty speaking.
  — Mary Clare Jalonick, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2023
• McConnell eventually answered two additional questions -- though not the one about a 2026 campaign -- and was halting and appeared to have some difficulty speaking.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024