VERB
- treat differently on the basis of sex or race
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select from a group
She was singled out for her outstanding performance
How To Use single out In A Sentence
- In some non-Western cultures, schizophrenic delusions single out the person as spiritually gifted.
- The food-finder might instead single out one other nest mate, and then lead it alone back to the food source.
- He said it was wrong to single out any section of society for Aids testing.
- The panellists decided to place the warning on all antidepressants rather than single out individual drugs.
- But so it was, as great men and princes are said to call in their flatterers when dinner has been served, so the Athenians, upon slight occasions, entertained and diverted themselves with their spruce speakers and trim orators, but when it came to action, they were sober and considerate enough to single out the austerest and wisest for public employment, however much he might be opposed to their wishes and sentiments. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
- Or does crisis strike when you have a single outbreak on an isolated peninsula?
- I decided to come off the bench in the second half but left it so late because I couldn't single out one player who deserved to be substituted.
- In this department it would be remiss to single out anyone, but one recalls one crunching tackle by Richard Berney on Cantan, when the full back came into the line with a touch down at his mercy.
- To do this, he needed to single out the Catholics as being guilty of separatism and ultramontanism.
- The return loss bridge can also be used as a signal combiner to combine two inputs to a single output.