"only" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Since she has two sons by a previous marriage, the family could not argue that Ruslan was the only able-bodied breadwinner.
- Two weeks later his older brother Pat, the family's only breadwinner, was stabbed to death by culprits unknown, for reasons obscure.
- 'This money would have been very useful a year ago after the Teebane massacre because two families lost their only breadwinners.'
- You may have a child who's the only breadwinner in his family, falling asleep in class.
- In 1992, women's earnings account for 40 percent of family incomes, while every fifth Russian woman is the family's only breadwinner.
- They are often their family's only breadwinner, usually divorced or separated, because, they say, most marriages wither in their absence from home.
- She was the only breadwinner of the family since her father Aquino died, and only her mother took care of the family.
- "Don't expect anything from us this week," she tells Iris, the only breadwinner in the family at the moment.
- "I'm a single mom, which means I'm the only breadwinner," she explained.
- Khodeza Begum has three surviving children, but none yet old enough to replace her son Zakir, 15, who had been the family's only breadwinner.
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