How to Use at one in a Sentence
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Some guys were having drinks at one of the cocktail tables by the bar.
—Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 16 July 2026
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That’s because he wasn’t supposed to be playing in the game at one point.
—Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026
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Gauff then seized the second set with a 117 mph ace to even it at one set all.
—Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
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Grab a seat at the bar or at one of a few tables scattered around the room and enjoy a cold drink.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 10 July 2026
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Coffin revealed the creative team had even explored the idea at one point.
—Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026
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Smurf played with bumps and bruises and half a tooth at one point against Georgia Tech.
—Hunter Delauder, AJC.com, 15 July 2026
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The freezers needed cleaning and there were no paper towels or soap at one of the hand sinks.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 July 2026
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The whistle blew moments later, sending us to extra time tied at one goal apiece.
—Jim Barnes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 July 2026
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The days of teams signing players on the back of a good performance at one World Cup are gone, but what about two?
—Nick Miller, New York Times, 4 July 2026
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The stage was decorated with Bosnian colored lights — blue, white and yellow — at one end.
—Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
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Instead, the Anchorman actor was assigned to sell tickets at one of the kiosks at the entrance to the theme park.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 17 July 2026
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These tickets must be cashed at one of the nine Florida Lottery district offices around the state.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 4 July 2026
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These tickets must be cashed at one of the Florida Lottery district offices around the state.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 4 July 2026
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These tickets must be cashed at one of the nine Florida Lottery district offices.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 8 July 2026
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These tickets must be cashed at one of the nine Florida Lottery district offices.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 9 July 2026
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There is no restaurant in the building, but vouchers are provided for an inclusive breakfast at one of two local cafés.
—Nick Hendry, TheWeek, 10 July 2026
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The shredding device is a top fed unit capable of processing multiple pieces of paper at one time,’ the report says.
—Helen I. Bennett, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2026
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But tensions remain high, with the sides exchanging fire at one point and continuing to publicly disagree about key issues.
—Dan Mangan,luke Fountain,kevin Breuninger,garrett Downs,ashley Capoot,justin Papp, CNBC, 2 July 2026
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The former world leader was soon after spotted at one of Perry’s concerts in the same Canadian city.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 10 July 2026
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Shares touched $240 at one point this morning, but dropped alongside others in healthcare names as the market rotated back into tech.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 9 July 2026
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Todd Blanche was at one point a prosecutor in the Justice Department who earned praise from some of his colleagues.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 16 July 2026
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The Utah native had a two-shot lead at one point until hitting into a hazard and taking double bogey on the 11th hole.
—ABC News, 4 July 2026
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Fire officials said one home along Palmer Drive was significantly damaged by the flames, with fire shooting through the roof at one point.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
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On the other side, Bedard at one point considered an even shorter deal to maximize his earning potential.
—Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 19 July 2026
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Some residents want the city to consider actions from an earlier era, including limiting how many people can be in the beach zone at one time.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
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Al-Sharaa at one point had a $10 million bounty on his head and served time in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
—Mariam Khan, ABC News, 8 July 2026
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The lovebirds began dating in the summer of 2023 after Kelce tried to give Swift a friendship bracelet at one of her concerts.
—Robyn Merrett, InStyle, 3 July 2026
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That film’s director Chad Ferrin told The Bee last year that Sharon Stone was at one point in talks to play Puente.
—Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2026
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Rent classic bikes at one of many rental agencies up and down the highway, or go for an easy-breezy electric bike from Pedego 30A to roll across the sand or the streets with no problem.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 10 July 2026
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The drone also showed a U-Haul trailer containing fireworks catching fire at one point, although the people at the gathering managed to put it out.
—Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
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Yet this movie is great enough to atone.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2026
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This is Bell’s time to atone for what transpired last year.
—Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
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Each one of them, Josh knew, was trying to atone for a wrong.
—Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Nov. 2021
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Is there any way to atone for one’s mistakes, no matter how grave?
—Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2021
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None may atone for my actions but me and only in me shall their stain live on.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 25 Feb. 2022
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But the display of piety has done little to mask that the army chief has much to atone for.
—New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
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And that is something that needs to be redeemed and addressed and atoned for.
—Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
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Villains atoned, only to revert to their old ways.
—Judy Berman, Time, 8 Apr. 2026
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Simply paying more from one year to the next does not atone for the grave offense at hand.
—Adam Parness, Billboard, 22 May 2024
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Mane then did get his goal in the 77th minute and atoned for his earlier miss.
—SI.com, 24 Feb. 2018
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Cassie loves to party but dies in a freak accident and must atone for her wrongs on earth to earn her wings.
—Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2021
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Putting the rotation on his shoulders in the second half would do a lot to atone for that.
—Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2022
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The Eagles are on a mission to atone for missing a state berth by one place last year.
—Joe Magill, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2022
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Biden has the chance to atone for the sins of his forebears and build up some serious street cred on climate.
—Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2021
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Moses destroyed the tablets in anger, but the people atoned for their sin, so God forgave them.
—Sofia Barrett, CNN, 24 Sep. 2023
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The Jesuits are leading an effort to atone for a past of slavery.
—Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2025
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How does a city atone for killing as many as 300 of its Black citizens?
—Maria C. Hunt, House Beautiful, 1 June 2021
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To Garrett, the extension was a way to give back more and atone for his mistake.
—cleveland, 9 Sep. 2020
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Nichushkin atoned for his earlier mistake with the third goal of the period.
—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 17 Oct. 2025
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Hedges nearly atoned in the bottom of the inning, sending a fly ball to deep right-center.
—Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 May 2017
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The show would be their effort to atone, perhaps, and, of course, their effort to make a comeback of some sort.
—Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
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To atone for that addition, perhaps, the owners kept the ratty red vinyl on the stools at the counter.
—Pete Wells, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
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In a tie game, and the power play 0 for 3 to that point, DeBrusk atoned.
—BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2019
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But the memo also tells the story of a grown man who spent his time behind bars trying to atone for the crime that put him there.
—Issie Lapowsky Abdul Kircher, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
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McGirt played in morning and made a pair of eagles on the back nine to atone in his round of 67.
—Doug Ferguson, The Denver Post, 11 May 2017
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McGirt played in the morning and made a pair of eagles on the back nine to atone in his round of 67.
—Doug Ferguson, courant.com, 11 May 2017
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On Yom Kippur, Jewish people atone for their sins from the past year.
—CNN, 2 Sep. 2021
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Hopefully for the Browns, Wilson will soon have a chance to atone for the mistake.
—cleveland, 19 Aug. 2020
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Now Google is offering its smarts and a small (to Google) chunk of change to begin to atone for its sins.
—Robert Hackett, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2018
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Gray atoned with an RBI double in the fifth to break up Martin's shutout bid.
—CBS News, 28 May 2026
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