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

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024