How to Use one day in a Sentence

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  • You’ll be very liked one day and very not liked the next.
    Ilana Kaplan, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2023
  • And this book will go out of print one day, and that’s fine.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The question was posed on the day of the verdict and one day after.
    James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
  • Brody's dream was to one day open his very own sports card shop.
    Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The event saw a record number of pets adopted in one day in North Texas.
    Daniel S. Levine, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
  • Amer will stand at a White House lectern one day and lead a protest outside its doors the next.
    Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Score 10 runs one day, average a run and a half for a week.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Each flower lasts for just one day—hence the name—but there are many on each stalk.
    Lauren Smith McDonough, House Beautiful, 18 Apr. 2023
  • He was found guilty, sentenced to one day in jail and ordered to pay $286 in fines.
    Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The singer went on to say that bringing these issues to Capitol Hill one day is the goal.
    Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The two settled the civil suit one day after it was filed.
    Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 21 May 2024
  • But Didion didn’t wake up one day and decide to write like that.
    Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Episodes will air on CBS and be available to stream on Paramount+ one day later.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Will the Bluehorn Blue bring the best world cheese title back to Oregon one day?
    Michael Alberty | , oregonlive, 6 May 2023
  • Make the cake up to one day ahead and store at room temperature.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Reynolds died of a stroke one day after Fisher's death.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 25 Apr. 2023
  • My old soccer coach became the coach of pole vaulting and asked me to try out one day.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Trying not to think about that and doing a good job of taking it one day at a time.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Plants that can gear up to bloom and then have flowers that last but one day have always amazed me.
    Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 May 2024
  • Maybe one day there will be a Venn diagram between the pair of us, but not at the moment.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
  • Chief among them is that kids have been gorging on Kit-Kats and Starbursts for decades, on this one day a year.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Then one day Charlotte’s phone rings again (her mom kept it working, just in case).
    Sarah Weinman, New York Times, 9 June 2023
  • That all changed one day when my dad sat me down to watch his Godzilla — 1956’s Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But one day, the president’s chef got carried away with the cornmeal and added too much.
    Christina Morales, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Cakes can be made and frosted one day in advance; cover with cake dome and chill in fridge.
    Kim Sunée, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2023
  • Wall Street’s key measure of volatility, the VIX, reached two year highs and soared more than 35% in just one day.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 16 May 2023
  • The offer is good for one day only while supplies last.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Williams: Maybe another All Stars one day, but not now.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2024
  • Stephen says he's never met the woman in person and only talked to her that one day and hasn't talked to her since.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
  • And federal law does not permit the State of Mississippi to extend the period for voting by one day, five days, or 100 days.
    Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024

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