not one person

idiom

: no one
Not one person knew the answer.

Examples of not one person in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Yet until Titan not one person had ever died in a commercial submarine. Rick N. Tumlinson, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2024 And ultimately, there’s not one person who has the answer. Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2023 Mask said not one person showed up to learn who would be wearing the Aubie costume. Ainslie Lee | Alee@al.com, al, 15 Sep. 2023 However, not one person back at Vought is counting down the days until the guy who can talk to fish comes back. Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 6 Sep. 2020 Hey, John: Antonetti would be the first to tell you that such an honor belongs to the whole organization and not one person. Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2022 In the history of Barstool, not one person that left has ever regained ownership of the I.P. David Marchese, New York Times, 20 May 2022 Yet when the patient is not one person but an entire society, this cycle is fractured and ad hoc in ways that would make any patient demand a new doctor. Jonathan Zittrain, STAT, 5 Mar. 2021 Abiy’s press office declined to respond to discrepancies between his recent claim that not one person was hurt by the federal military offensive in Tigray and Red Cross reports from hospitals that hundreds have been wounded. Jacob Kushner, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2020

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“Not one person.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/not%20one%20person. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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