not_only

[not_only]

Not merely (used to introduce the first phrase of a correlative construction and usually followed by `but'' or `but also''); "not only was he poor, but..."

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Adverb
not merely (used to introduce the first phrase of a correlative construction and usually followed by `but'' or `but also''); "not only was he poor, but..."


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Usage Examples

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.

Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

"These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than ""able-bodied"" folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow."

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