The song did indeed become an underground hit before hitting the mainstream, reaching No. 15 on the RB singles chart.
‘The Prince of Chocolate City’: When Gil Scott-Heron Became A Music Icon|Marcus Baram|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To risk eye contact with any of the above is to forfeit all singles in your wallet.
Leaky Ceilings, Catcalls, and Uncaged Pythons: 4 Hours on NYC’s Worst Subway|Kevin Zawacki|August 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Words like ‘singles’ and ‘meet new people’ are prominent in the ads, as are pictures of laughing women.
All the Grown-Up Hipsters Playing Kids’ Games|Daniel Genis|June 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Into the pocket goes a pair of all-beef hot dogs (singles are also available).
The Jersey Shore’s Biggest Weiners Are at Jimmy Buff’s|Jane & Michael Stern|June 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Our church tends to attract a younger crowd of singles and families with small children.
Can’t Fill the House On Easter? Try Handing Out Gadgets|Matthew Paul Turner|April 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Few, indeed, could do it properly, though the singles of some were very neat.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459|Various
Hays, as you know, has that peculiar cross-fire delivery that singles him out among pitchers.
Baseball Joe, Captain of the Team|Lester Chadwick
The machines will carry three as well as two, and even if we have, by some mischance to go up in singles, they'll carry double.
Air Service Boys in the Big Battle|Charles Amory Beach
"A set of ten Chippendale singles with two armchairs will fetch almost anything you like nowadays," he added.
A harum-scarum schoolgirl|Angela Brazil
The match was to be at one-hundred balls—sixty singles, and twenty pairs of doubles.
The Adventures of Bobby Orde|Stewart Edward White
singles
/ (ˈsɪŋɡəlz) /
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pl n
tennisbadmintona match played with one person on each side
Words nearby singles
single point mooring, single precision, single premium, single quotes, single rhyme, singles, singles bar, single sculls, single-sex, single-shot, single sideband transmission