Meanings of only advanced in English

With arms yet more sublimed, he only advanced, in silence and dumb heroics.

We have only advanced from the simple to the more complex form of matrimony.

She only advanced a few steps when the sounds in the hall again startled her.

But he only advanced a step or two, and gazed wistfully upon her handsome, hardened face.

The plea of poverty must be ignored; it was only advanced because Mr. Lessing was her landlord!

Sure enough, the predators had only advanced a few steps before their gaze fixed on the arena's occupants.

The instrumentation of the Walkure, which I had hoped to finish off here, only advanced a paltry hundred pages.

Del Ferice has only advanced you money, in a business way, on good security and at a high interest.

Canada has been criticized by the International Monetary Fund for being the only advanced economy without a national capital markets regulator.

On the day I left him, Mr. Hume only advanced about two miles, in consequence of some derangement in the loads.

Today, we're the only advanced country on Earth that doesn't guarantee paid sick leave or paid maternity leave to our workers.

Gordon ends his account with the remark: "We should have carried everything before us, if the men had only advanced."

Many others of my acquaintance have endeavored to maintain a diary, but have only advanced so far as the second week in January.

If Burny has not been misdiagnosed, he is probably the only advanced Alzheimer's patient in the world to experience prolonged spells of remission.

My religious status, as well as my conception of life, were only advanced to where they should have been at an earlier period.

The country has been criticized by the International Monetary Fund and others for being the only advanced economy without a national capital markets regulator.