every one
Britishpronoun
Example Sentences
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The Nile runs through the middle of Egypt, feeding nearly every one of its 100 million people.
From Slate
"But I've already found my son in the 250 bodies I've located, and in the thirty-something people I've found alive. They are my children, too. And the children of all the families who come to ask me for help become my children. My son is there, in each and every one of them. All of them carry a little piece of my son."
From BBC
I sat in a trance and watched that hundred dollar monkey spring every one of my traps the same way.
From Literature
Turning to the little monkeys, he uttered a few of those deep grunts and then every one of them started dropping down from the sycamore tree.
From Literature
“They don’t seem to have any sense at all. I believe I could catch every one of them. It’s that hundred dollar monkey that I’m having trouble with.”
From Literature
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