ONCE in a Sentence

Learn ONCE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
322 example sentences for ONCE, such as:
1. Truth, once crushed, will rise again.
2. Napolean himself was once a crying baby.
3. The religion we call false was once true.
4. He who has done ill once will do it again.
5. The expert in anything was once a beginner.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of ONCE
once
 ad.  as soon as
 ad.  at a previous time
Classic Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
1  He excites at once my admiration and my pity to an astonishing degree.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
2  In that hour I should die and at once satisfy and extinguish his malice.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
3  He is eloquent and persuasive, and once his words had even power over my heart; but trust him not.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
4  Daisy was my second cousin once removed and I'd known Tom in college.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
5  When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  He came only once, in white knickerbockers, and had a fight with a bum named Etty in the garden.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
7  I looked once more at them and they looked back at me, remotely, possessed by intense life.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  Now and then she moved and he changed his arm a little and once he kissed her dark shining hair.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
9  Your pardon once again, good sir, if my speech give the shadow of offence.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
10  So great a vicissitude in his life could not at once be received as real.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
11  "Consider," she added, "that when the money is once parted with, it never can return."
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
12  His eyes want all that spirit, that fire, which at once announce virtue and intelligence.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
13  The storm, as is often the case in Switzerland, appeared at once in various parts of the heavens.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
14  Yes," he replied gravely, "once I have.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
15  By the virtues that I once possessed, I demand this from you.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
Example Sentence: (120 in 9 pages)
1  You not once gave me one time to turn the head, I always in smiled actually to you.
2  Truth, once crushed, will rise again.
3  He who has done ill once will do it again.
4  It is time, once again, to contend with racism.
5  Remember once again the passage of memories, has no sweet.
6  I tried a dating agency once, but got my fingers badly burnt - I'll never do it again.
7  Who undertakes many things at once, seldom does anything well.
8  The expert in anything was once a beginner.
9  One cannot do a foolish thing once in one's life, but one must hear of it a hundred times.
10  What was once a novel approach had become orthodoxy.
11  In the election of a wife, as in a project of war, to err but once is to be undone for ever.
12  Fortune knocks once at least at every man's door.
13  Napolean himself was once a crying baby.
14  This preference could not of course be satisfied for all members of the troop at once since baboons groom in couples.
15  The religion we call false was once true.