How to Use twice in a Sentence

twice

adverb

• The new one costs about twice as much.
• I've been there at least twice.
• He could earn twice his present salary at the new job.
• He must be twice her age.
• He has rehearsals twice a month.
• I only wore it twice.
• He twice lost to younger opponents.
• The population is twice that of Canada.
• We visited them twice in 10 years.
• The dictionary has been twice updated since 1993.
• Báez struck out twice in a pair of matchups with Javier.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2022
• Still, the Tigers scored more than 80 points just twice in those nine games.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 4 Jan. 2023
• This is a 16-year-old in the Midwest who had been shot twice.
  — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2023
• Over the next three months, Rising won just twice in 15 games.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2022
• During the fight, the teen was shot twice in the chest and the older man was hit once in the elbow.
  — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 21 June 2024
• That’s twice as many as the Guardians, who finished 29th among MLB’s 30 teams, hit.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2022
• Packard drove in three runs and scored a run, while Rivas scored twice.
  — Paul Boyd, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2023
• But the pro season crams in almost twice as many games.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
• The group now helps upwards of 50 people each week and spends twice as much.
  — Allison McCann, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• So much more to her than her appearance and played the game (twice) with grit.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 4 Sep. 2024
• Ginn, who has coached Glenville for 25 years, brought his teams twice before to this stage.
  — Matt Goul, cleveland, 3 Dec. 2022
• Chytka restocks life vests twice a week, 20 to 30 at a time.
  — Rachel Ehly and Gabriella Wong, oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2022
• Potter shot Aguilar-Mandujano four times, twice in the back of the head, once in the shoulder and once in the nose.
  — oregonlive, 17 Oct. 2022
• Flip the crepes once or twice more until lightly browned and cooked through.
  — G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
• But corporate greed, in my case, is a snake that bites twice.
  — Mahyad Tousi, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Sep. 2023
• Tokyo was the first host city to host the Summer Olympics twice; and 2021 was the first time the Olympic Games were held on an odd-numbered year.
  — Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Apr. 2024
• Indeed, Stone served in the ’60s and was twice wounded in action.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 18 May 2024
• Many of them meet twice a week to play for two hours as the rat-tat-tat of gunfire echoes across Port-au-Prince.
  — Evens Sanon and Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023
• Brennan Johnson, making his first start after one month out with a calf injury, scored twice in the first half.
  — Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
• Hawk-Eye is working behind the scenes tracking every pitch, but teams will only be able to call on it twice per game as a challenge to the home plate umpire.
  — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 9 Mar 2025