How to Use once in a Sentence

once

1 of 3 adverb

• It was once done that way.
• He didn't look at me once.
• She didn't once thank me.
• The play was performed only once.
• I will repeat the question once.
• A river once flowed through this canyon.
• It was once a booming mining town.
• Their music was once very popular.
• The cub played with the rodent, even tossing it into the air once.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• So far, his team has been swept by both the 49ers and Rams and has lost once to Seattle.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2024
• Phoenix will once again play host for the Women's Final Four in 2026.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 17 Jan. 2024
• Try not to get in your own way once this round of applause arrives.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
• The Zoom classes are 30 minutes, once a week and are open to anyone.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2023
• Foster is in contention once again for a SAG Award this year.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
• Today, the court once again walked away from decades of precedent, as the dissent has made clear.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 29 June 2023
• And once fully charged, the vacuum can run for a max of 25 minutes.
  — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2024
• The prospect of Diaz fighting Paul once seemed laughable.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
• As the new, gray wall has taken shape, artists have begun to once again add color.
  — Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
• Yogurt, for instance, was once just full-fat or non-fat.
  — Lauren Manaker, Health, 16 June 2023
• And Herro, who reached 20 points only once during the losing streak, has done it three times in the past four games.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
• The state-of-the-art theater, once a source of immense collective pride, is now a poisonous wedge.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2023
• And so, what once took your breath away becomes part of life’s furniture.
  — TIME, 22 Feb. 2024
• But the team with the worst record got the top pick only once and that led the league to implementing a weighted system.
  — Brian Mahoney, Chron, 13 May 2023
• To do a spot test, simply apply a small amount to the back of the wrist once a day for a few days and wait five to six days for a reaction.
  — Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 12 July 2023
• Prince Louis once again stole the show at a major royal, as the five-year-old attended Trooping the Colour.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 June 2023
• And the raw spots marking where old blisters had once been started healing.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
• Trevor Noah will once again serve as the Grammys’ host, his fourth year in a row taking on hosting duties.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2024
• The addition of 7-foot-3-inch Kristaps Porzingis, a once and perhaps future unicorn, has made that a truth.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• But If your skin is more on the sensitive side of the spectrum, my suggestion is to only use gentler acids like lactic, mandelic or salicylic once a week to keep the skin smooth and bright.
  — Samantha Mims, Essence, 10 Apr. 2024
• The four-bedroom residence is on the fourth floor of an Art Nouveau-style apartment house in Mayfair that stands on the site of an 18th-century Georgian mansion once occupied by royalty.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2024

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once

2 of 3 noun

• Please be on time just this once.
• For once you seem to know what I'm talking about.
• I have tried Indian food more than once.
• Just want to give that wrinkly dress of yours the once over?
  — Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2021
• The plates are large enough to grill up to four burger patties at a once, cutting the usual cook time in half.
  — Sanah Faroke, PEOPLE.com, 13 July 2021
• In a once in a lifetime event, the night sky on Wednesday will be both the brightest and darkest ever seen.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 23 May 2021
• The renewal comes just under a month after Life & Beth’s all-at-once release.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2022
• Voyager is a once in a lifetime, and perhaps many lifetimes, mission.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Mar. 2022
• The all-at-once release model that Netflix pioneered gave users the freedom to consume TV at their own pace.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
• The binge-it-all-at-once model, for example, is no longer inviolable.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 19 June 2022
• The upside of it is that you may be rewarded with a once in a lifetime buck that has probably never seen a human being.
  — Hal Blood, Outdoor Life, 10 Nov. 2020
• Even harder is getting into the under-the-radar private shows the Stones play a once or twice each tour, which are usually arranged by a billionaire and held in a tiny venue.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2022
• Experts recommend giving your fridge the once over every week, especially the crispers and the meat storage areas.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
• This is a once in a generation opportunity to build school buildings that meet the needs of this century.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2021
• Daybell, who has also been indicted on a charge of first-degree murder and insurance fraud in the death of his once-wife Tammy Daybell, is due in court next week.
  — NBC News, 26 May 2021
• This is a once in a lifetime shift away from legacy television measurement and opens the door to solve decades old problems that have plagued the advertising ecosystem.
  — Brad Adgate, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
• Temporary hair loss, caused by events like chemotherapy, stress, or post-pregnancy, may clear up on its own once circumstances change.
  — Beth Shapouri, Allure, 31 Aug. 2021
• The last thing that Biden wants, however, is yet more confrontations with his once and potentially future rival.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
• The Prime Video series returns on Feb. 18 with a new release strategy, opting for two-episode increments every week rather than the all-at-once binge of previous seasons.
  — Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2021
• The pandemic has presented us with a once in a lifetime opportunity to reimagine the future of retail, and retailers should grab it with both hands.
  — Alliance Manchester Business School, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
• For Andrea Berstler, operating a library during a pandemic has proven to a unique and a once in a lifetime experience.
  — Yasmine Askari, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 8 Mar. 2021
• Wembanyama is a once in a lifetime prospect, who could feasibly turn a team's fortunes around by becoming one of the most productive two-way centers in all of basketball.
  — Morten Jensen, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• Originally used to provide horse stables for the once grander homes on surrounding streets, the Mews is currently a mishmash of 10 or so, now-pricey, two-story Victorian row homes.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 4 May 2021
• In many newsrooms, including at the once staunchly anti-union Los Angeles Times, journalists have organized in order to gain a degree of control over their lives.
  — Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021
• But with bigger crowds and first-time visitors modeling other travelers’ behaviors, even small just-this-once choices can add up.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2022
• As a matter of public relations, all-at-once reveals invite unnecessary risks.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2021
• Survivor was a once in a lifetime opportunity, being an attorney could wait!
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2021
• Disney Plus, for example, has moved more of its episodic unscripted programming to an all-at-once release strategy based on viewing data.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 14 Sep. 2021
• During a once in a lifetime pandemic when people were desperate for information, CNN and every other network took the briefings live.
  — Fox News, 4 Feb. 2022
• Zerlang shared his experiences with the once in a century transformational pandemic induced segue into a remote and hybrid workstyle.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022

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once

3 of 3 adjective

• Weeds now wind through the paving stones at the once grand entrance.
  — Ruth Eglash, Washington Post, 29 June 2020
• As many as a third of Venezuelans in the once oil-rich nation were eating just one meal a day, according to a 2019 study.
  — Ingrid Cotto, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Apr. 2021
• Tents were pitched by people using the once grand station lobby as a shelter.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2021
• His eyes were practically swollen shut, and his once-red comb was black — a possible sign, McKillop said, of loss of blood flow.
  — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2017
• All around him, a heavy blanket of smoke camouflaged the once pristine lake with a gray and brown haze that made the water difficult to see even from just a few feet away.
  — NBC News, 12 Sep. 2021
• For now the once globe-trotting Ghosn is stuck in Lebanon, unable to travel overseas without risking arrest and a return to Japan.
  — Reuters, CNN, 2 Mar. 2022
• Natasha and Yelena resolve to topple Dreykov and the Red Room, a mission that requires them to reconnect with their once parents.
  — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 29 June 2021
• Two grandchildren are also part of the once-family business.
  — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2021
• Anne Boelyn, the once queen of England, was informally accused of witchcraft.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 13 Aug. 2021
• Brazil meanwhile were beaten by hosts France in the last 16; a disappointing but not unexpected finish from a once world class squad.
  — SI.com, 4 Oct. 2019
• Tech will be at the heart of the once office-centric workplace and good communication will be key as companies make this transition.
  — USA Today, 20 Apr. 2021
• In recent years, a once-fringe theory — dubbed the Big Bounce — has gained traction in cosmological circles.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
• Over the past two decades plus there's been an incredible amount of amazing horror programming that has totally changed the landscape of how viewers enjoy the once niche genre.
  — Rosie Knight, refinery29.com, 24 Sep. 2020
• Over the last few decades, its once majority of white workers were replaced with immigrants who together speak more than 80 languages.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2020
• The once-rockstar software developer, instead of coding, spends the day managing the minutiae of the daily workflow.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• And Michigan's gone through spring drills without a clear answer of who will realistically be the front-runner once summer begins.
  — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2018
• The once symbol of American manufacturing has struggled in recent years and has sold off parts of its business to try and stabilize its operations.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• Exploration and production company shares are on fire, and debt and equity markets are reopening for the once downtrodden sector.
  — Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• Growth is accelerating as the network effect has built on WhatsApp’s exodus, catapulting the once niche player into the majors.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 4 May 2021
• Now, with the once-bedroom communities of Herriman and Copperton, for example, growing, even booming, the transportation plans are becoming outdated.
  — Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Apr. 2022
• In the three months since its inauguration, Netanyahu’s government — cobbled together with once-fringe ultranationalist and ultraconservative religious parties — has led to a period of national division and security crisis, defense officials say.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023
• Weeds now wind through the paving stones at the once grand entrance.
  — Ruth Eglash, Washington Post, 29 June 2020
• As many as a third of Venezuelans in the once oil-rich nation were eating just one meal a day, according to a 2019 study.
  — Ingrid Cotto, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Apr. 2021
• Tents were pitched by people using the once grand station lobby as a shelter.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2021
• His eyes were practically swollen shut, and his once-red comb was black — a possible sign, McKillop said, of loss of blood flow.
  — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2017
• All around him, a heavy blanket of smoke camouflaged the once pristine lake with a gray and brown haze that made the water difficult to see even from just a few feet away.
  — NBC News, 12 Sep. 2021
• For now the once globe-trotting Ghosn is stuck in Lebanon, unable to travel overseas without risking arrest and a return to Japan.
  — Reuters, CNN, 2 Mar. 2022
• Natasha and Yelena resolve to topple Dreykov and the Red Room, a mission that requires them to reconnect with their once parents.
  — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 29 June 2021
• Two grandchildren are also part of the once-family business.
  — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2021
• Anne Boelyn, the once queen of England, was informally accused of witchcraft.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 13 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024