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singling out

vb. (present participle of single out English)

Usage examples of "singling out".

It was almost as though his machine had a will of its own, deliberately singling out every pothole and bump in the narrow twisting road, an instrument of sadistic torture.

Butch was talking now, silently, on screen, singling out the camera with her eyes.

She was singling out her house key, trying not to lose the slumping stack of exam books.

She kept her camera trained on the skies for a time, singling out the red Alpha and its attractive pilot.

The rhinoceros started up again, and singling out the unfortunate man who had got down and fired at it, roaring and snorting with rage, thundered after him.

He paused, and with some difficulty reached his hand into his trousers pocket and brought out a bunch of keys, singling out one between his thumb and forefinger.

He glared around the huge room, singling out every single woman in it for a moment's glower.

He apologized for taking the liberty to invade our rooms, singling out Pons by the same means used by Pons to identify him, and explained that it was very seldom that he left his home in St.

If extreme penalties were needed, singling out one who had been prominent in the fracas—.

The first appeals to the acknowledged injustice of singling out an individual, and making a sacrifice, without his consent, for other people’.