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Synonyms for singly


Grammar : Adv
Spell : sing-glee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɪŋ gli



Définition of singly

Origin :
  • c.1300, from single (adj.) + -ly (2).
  • adv individually
Example sentences :
  • Here; singly to your face, or in the presence of your nation.
  • Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • It does not tell us singly what poetry is, but it speculates upon the cause and effect of poetry.
  • Extract from : « The Lyric » by John Drinkwater
  • Singly, they are strong impulses; combined, their power is irresistible.
  • Extract from : « Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) » by Charles Lever
  • With the halting precision of the ignorant, she had counted them singly every day.
  • Extract from : « Tess of the Storm Country » by Grace Miller White
  • In the mass they are appalling but singly they are surmountable.
  • Extract from : « A Daughter of the Middle Border » by Hamlin Garland
  • My clients came to me, singly and in pairs, to grovel and to implore.
  • Extract from : « The Plum Tree » by David Graham Phillips
  • And sexually he goes as a single individual; he can mingle only singly.
  • Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence
  • They stood about singly and in groups, opening and shutting their beaks.
  • Extract from : « Love Among the Chickens » by P. G. Wodehouse
  • Together they could protect each other, but singly they were at my mercy.
  • Extract from : « A Study In Scarlet » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The strings of the piano vibrate, not singly, but ten at a time.
  • Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall

Antonyms for singly

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