How to Use once in a lifetime in a Sentence

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  • This is the kind of thing that happens once in a lifetime.
    Jim Farber, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2024
  • And to be sharing the stage with Lang Lang will be a dream come true; a once in a lifetime performance.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 8 May 2023
  • And to be sharing the stage with Lang Lang will be a dream come true; a once in a lifetime performance.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 8 May 2023
  • So the first trip is that wish trip, and that's just a once in a lifetime experience that's week long.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024
  • These kinds of things might happen to mortal programs once in a lifetime, if that.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Henry is a high school kid who believes true love only comes once in a lifetime.
    Kori Williams, Seventeen, 20 Jan. 2023
  • This is resulting in more people booking these ‘once in a lifetime’ trips.
    Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Sip mocktails and learn about this once in a lifetime event, in partnership with The Cincinnati Observatory.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2024
  • As our world warms, extreme weather that used to happen once in a lifetime are becoming more frequent occurrences.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Getting to dive deep into the emotion behind it and having the honor of portraying that through music is a once in a lifetime experience.
    Lily Moayeri, Variety, 6 Mar. 2023
  • People are describing the whole night of migration as part of a once in a lifetime thing … (but) this still is an unacceptable intrusion by humans and their architecture.
    Todd Richmond, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2023
  • But also very excited first this once in a lifetime opportunity.
    Lawrence Yee, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024
  • So incredibly grateful for this once in a lifetime experience!
    Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
  • As Cathy McCahill noted, this really is a once in a lifetime opportunity.
    Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2023
  • However, Nina, who is currently on a sabbatical from her job as a project manager, stresses that such road trips are expensive, particularly when traveling as a foursome, and this may just have to be a once in a lifetime adventure for her family.
    Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
  • On social media, particularly youtube, prominent influencers promoted the settlement as a once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire valuable land in Ghana, a country marketed as a prosperous African nation on the rise.
    Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 25 Feb. 2024

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