What is "single-handedly"

Usage examples of "single-handedly".

Fourteen rich Milanese were driving to Albaretto for lunch, and Cesare single-handedly prepared six courses and the broths and sauces that accompanied them, moving urgently between the chopping table, the cold box, and the pots on the crowded stove.

Noch, Chron, and even broken-armed Pirk related a wondrous tale of how I had single-handedly slain the dragon guarding them and brought them to freedom in Paradise.

I applaud you, sir, for your great notion that single-handedly attempts to oppose the centuries of mealymouthed propaganda with which men have tried to convince themselves to do the conventional thing no matter how they opposed it.

For a change, it was Skeeter in motormouth mode, sitting in the backseat with Travis, almost single-handedly carrying the conversation.

Agony: the semidivine hero crucified by the barbarian horsemen he had held off single-handedly for so long.

T-34 that had knocked out six German tanks single-handedly, including a Tiger.

May I assume Cheryl Anne was upset because Thud failed to win the game single-handedly and ensure a Homecoming celebration fraught with significance and glistening memories?

Of course the lesser lights in his retinue contributed to the talk, so that all the habitual loiterers around the Miletus harborfront knew that he was a high aristocrat, a brilliant man, and single-handedly responsible for persuading King Nicomedes of Bithynia to leave his realm to Rome when he died.

Although the anesthetic worked, Liston operated with his cus­tomary speed, single-handedly amputating the leg at the thigh in exactly twenty-eight seconds.

I'm the potentially gifted ten-year-old tennis and lexical prodigy whose mom's a continental mover and shaker in the prescriptive-grammar academic world and whose dad's a towering figure in optical and avant-garde film circles and single-handedly founded the Enfield Tennis Academy but drinks Wild Turkey at like 5:00 A.

While Jadow regaled the others with tales of women he had known and battles he had single-handedly won, Erik lay half listening, half wondering just what Calis had meant.

She might look like theorganizer of Castlemere Women's Institute annualPainted Knee competition but she was a highly effectiveprofessional seller who was single-handedly responsiblefor a significant portion of the Cornmarket Trading Company'sprofits each year.

When rustlers had been decimating his herd of cattle and the local law enforcement hadn't been able to stop it, Webb had single-handedly tracked the four rustlers and followed them into Mexico.

This is the woman who broke my heart, ruined my life, this woman is single-handedly responsible for my poverty and directionlessness and failure, the woman I dreamed about regularly for a good five years, and I'm sending her up.

On his very first mission, Jool Noret had achieved near-legendary status, single-handedly unleashing an atomic city-killer that wiped out the Ix-Omnius.