How to Use one-to-one in a Sentence

one-to-one

adjective
  • The ratio of bread to allium looks to be about one-to-one.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The goal from the get-go was never to create a one-to-one recreation, so what was that driving tenet?
    Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 1 Mar. 2024
  • For a $30 swapping fee, participants can bring up to 20 items for one-to-one swaps.
    Maddie Browning, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Feb. 2023
  • And not with contract language that has a one-to-one ratio of promises to loopholes.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Once the update arrives, users can tap any one-to-one or group exchange and select the lock option.
    Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG, 16 May 2023
  • Can aluminum foil be used as a one-to-one substitute for parchment?
    Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 July 2023
  • Mix your blooming gel and white gel color in a one-to-one ratio and apply this on top of your base color.
    Annie Blay, Allure, 27 June 2023
  • As such, Kim explains, some events will have a strict one-to-one adaptation, while others will be remixed.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Customers can chat one-to-one with a customer service agent via online live chat.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2023
  • MassHealth funds providers to hire staff specifically to provide one-to-one care for people who need it.
    Jason Laughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But going from actor to audiobook narrator is not a one-to-one move.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 9 June 2023
  • Employees will have a voice in the process through surveys, focus groups, town halls or one-to-one conversations.
    Mindi Cox, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • In a one-to-one case of partner-swapping, Ryann and James were each paired off with the respective half of another couple, Trey and Riah, in episode one.
    Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 27 Aug. 2023
  • In current classrooms, teachers do not have time for the sustained one-to-one instruction that OtA requires.
    Marion Blank, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Taking a one-to-many approach should be accompanied by one-to-one touchpoints.
    Ray Zhou, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • It was rewritten to be more one-to-one with what’s happening, so it really just got simplified a lot.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2023
  • First, its models assume companies will replace diesel trucks with electric trucks one-to-one.
    The Editors, National Review, 28 June 2023
  • And younger executives are still wined and dined, just more often en masse at Malibu beach houses instead of one-to-one at Cipriani.
    Ophir Tanz, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Talking one-to-one with a stranger, Springsteen is polite but withdrawn, a slim 26-year-old with a sparse beard and a huge gold hoop through one ear, clasping his hands together and staring at the floor.
    Christine Brown, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Social media is unique in that it's rooted in connection, with platforms designed to be one-to-one or one-to-many messaging.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • While none of the new names should provide a one-to-one replacement of a coach or player, Oats found a suitable defensive mind in Ryan Pannone, one of his new assistants.
    Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 14 July 2023
  • Staff can see every patient from the central nurses’ station, eliminating the need for one-to-one sitters.
    Grace Rubenstein, STAT, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The visual fidelity is one-to-one, with only some changes to depth of field, motion blur, and other cinematic cutscene effects.
    Sean Hollister, The Verge, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The first two days are devoted to screenings, and then one-to-one meetings between the producers of the projects and the professionals attending the Venice Production Bridge will take place on the third day.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 July 2023
  • The easy cocktail recipe traditionally features an foolproof one-to-one ratio of red wine and citrus soda, and was first a staple in Spain.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Some recipes actually use applesauce as a one-to-one substitute for oil.
    Marissa Wu, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2023
  • An individual choice does not track one-to-one with a societal outcome.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
  • But nearly every track on the record having a one-to-one parallel to other moments in his discography does feel like a timely reminder.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Nabokov is one of the most passionate advocates of this one-to-one school of translation and wrote many angry, disgusted polemics against anyone who used their judgment.
    Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The roundtables were followed the next day by a series of one-to-one 15-minute meetings with decision-makers, set up by the VdR-Industry team to match projects with potential partners.
    Lise Pedersen, Variety, 17 Apr. 2024

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