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Once in a sentence

Sentence examples for once. Learn how established writers used the word in their sentences. Learn how to imitate them to express your idea.

He was very lazy but a great worker once he was started.

Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton.

Daisy was my second cousin once removed, and I’d known Tom in college.

If you call me Doc once again, I’ll knock your eye teeth down your throat.

Once the horn went all the way through him and he felt it go into the sand.

She walked back to where Jim was lying and shook him once more to make sure.

On the train from Padua to Milan they quarreled about her not being willing to come home at once.

Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.

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