Definition of single-handedly in English:
single-handedly
adverbˌsɪŋɡ(ə)lˈhandɪdliˌsɪŋɡəlˈhændədli
Without help from anyone else.
Michael single-handedly transformed the team
the first woman to sail single-handedly around the world
Example sentencesExamples
- His first mentor was a man who single-handedly destroyed a genre to rebuild it on his own terms.
- Dick Tracy is the ultimate good-guy cop of the 1940s trying single-handedly to bring down the mob.
- To hear his admirers tell it, he single-handedly rescued the network in the 1980s with his uncanny gift for finding quality shows.
- She single-handedly engages in a spectacular mud fight with a gang of boys who invade her garden.
- He has single-handedly taken on the group of thieves, chasing them by train.
- He gave an unforgettable performance, single-handedly rescuing the movie.
- He would more or less single-handedly usher in the performance-art phase of the New York counterculture.
- His inaction almost single-handedly prolonged the war for the North.
- His films have single-handedly defined the zombie genre.
- He has almost single-handedly kept his sculpture in view.
Definition of single-handedly in US English:
single-handedly
adverbˌsiNGɡəlˈhandədlēˌsɪŋɡəlˈhændədli
Without help from anyone else.
Michael single-handedly transformed the team
the first woman to sail single-handedly around the world
Example sentencesExamples
- He has almost single-handedly kept his sculpture in view.
- He has single-handedly taken on the group of thieves, chasing them by train.
- His first mentor was a man who single-handedly destroyed a genre to rebuild it on his own terms.
- Dick Tracy is the ultimate good-guy cop of the 1940s trying single-handedly to bring down the mob.
- His inaction almost single-handedly prolonged the war for the North.
- He gave an unforgettable performance, single-handedly rescuing the movie.
- She single-handedly engages in a spectacular mud fight with a gang of boys who invade her garden.
- His films have single-handedly defined the zombie genre.
- To hear his admirers tell it, he single-handedly rescued the network in the 1980s with his uncanny gift for finding quality shows.
- He would more or less single-handedly usher in the performance-art phase of the New York counterculture.