How do you use the word "one" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "one": One can always find time. One can't expect everything from schools.

One Meaning

/wʌn/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

numThe number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.

numThe first positive number in the set of natural numbers.

Sentence Examples

One can always find time.

One can't expect everything from schools.

Do you want one or two?

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

united single unity

Antonyms:

divided ordinal

CEFR Practice Quiz

I need ____ more minute to finish this work.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

There is only ____ solution to this equation, and it requires careful algebraic manipulation.

Word Origin & History

PIE word *h₁óynos Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-West Germanic *ain Old English ān Middle English on English one From Middle English oon, on, oan, an, from Old English ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“single, one”). Doublet of an. Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); North Frisian ån (“one”); Saterland Frisian aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Danish en (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ūnus (“one”) (Old Latin oinos); Russian оди́н (odín), Spanish uno. Doublet of a, an, and Uno. False cognate of Malayalam ഒന്ന് (onnŭ), Tamil ஒன்னு (oṉṉu), ஒண்ணு (oṇṇu), ஒன்று (oṉṟu). The use as an indefinite personal pronoun may have been influenced by unrelated French on, although the Germanic languages widely use cognates for the same sense (usually in non-subject function, but also in subject function, e.g. Luxembourgish een). Verb form from Middle English onen.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable." — 1911, Ambrose Bierce, “Wedding”, in The Devil’s Dictionary, New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.: The Neale Publishing Company, →OCLC:

"Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen." — 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do / Two can be as bad as one / It's the loneliest number since the number one" — 1968, Harry Nilsson, “One”, in Aerial Ballet:

"In 1964, Dupuy developed the “Theoretical Lethality Index” (TLI), which calculated the lethal capacity of weapons across time. The TLI table showed how many persons a soldier with a weapon could theoretically kill in one hour." — 2021 October 20, Jennifer Tucker, “Now that guns can kill hundreds in minutes, Supreme Court should rethink the rights question”, in CNN:

"Which happies thoſe that pay the willing lone; / That's for thy ſelfe to breed an other thee / Or ten times happier be it ten for one,[…]" — 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 6”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

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