10 sentences with 'only'

Example sentences and phrases with the word only and other words derived from it.

• « The only people I knew who had suffered from it had died from it, after descending into a world of such pain and suffering that their loved ones went so far as to pray for them to die. »
• « I wanted to know if surgery was the only option. »
• « -The only thing she said was that there's a chance I'll be dead in five or ten years, no matter what we do. And we already knew that. »
• « You have to believe only half of that statement. »
• « Carlos was thus convinced that the only hope of success was foreign pressure. »
• « The girl was only eight years old, but she already knew that Michener was a special person. »
• « However, literature was not the only thing in his life. »
• « If only John could follow in the footsteps of the great men he had known; if only he could live by those values; if only...! »
• « Also the phrase "Known only to God", which was engraved on the tombstones of soldiers whose bodies were never identified, like that of his son. »
• « Incredibly, it had only been 20 minutes since the nail had been driven into his chest. »
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