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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• So much more to her than her appearance and played the game (twice) with grit.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 4 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Tomarchio led with five, and Collins and Trevor Sousa each scored twice with two assists.
  — Anthony Maluso, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2023
• Case in point: Black men are around twice as likely to die of prostate cancer than white men.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2023
• And these days, a trip to and from Logan Airport can take twice as long as usual.
  — Aruni Soni, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
• Soon, Rozman cracked the bot’s code — Martin seemed to have a blind spot for pawns — and beat him, twice, laughing the whole time.
  — Reid Forgrave, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• Willy Flores carried six times for 67 yards and scored twice.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
• Use it twice a week for the first two weeks, every other night for the next two weeks, and then every night.
  — Morgan Sullivan, ELLE, 18 July 2023
• The helicopter returned to the hut twice to fly out members of the rescue team, the statement said.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
• The Lakers and the Nuggets met four times during the regular season and each club won twice.
  — John Scheibe, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• Daniel Evans checks his bank account twice daily — once in the morning and again before going to bed.
  — Jasmine Cui, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
• According to the 2023 annual report, most cases of voter fraud involved voters who voted twice in the same election, once in-person and then again via absentee by mail.
  — Cailey Gleeson, Journal Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024