Sentence examples for Has once been from inspiring English sources

She has once been nominated for an Oscar - in 1996 she played Barbara Streisand's mother in The Mirror Has Two Faces - but this was the year of The English Patient and she lost to Juliet Binoche.

Therefore, it cannot be repeated when it has once been validly performed as a sacrament.

Sharapova has once been on the wrong end of a shutout loss, dropping all 12 games to Lindsay Davenport in an inexplicably lopsided 2005 semifinal at Indian Wells.

The thinking seems to be that anything that has once been a vegetable remains a vegetable, no matter what form it ultimately takes.

Like almost everyone who has once been the CEO of a major media company, he's been unable to find a job as CEO of another major media company.

His riposte to Pope's detractors, such as the poet Joseph Warton, is vigorous and memorable: "It is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet?

The 1988 track "It Only Has to Happen Once" is a lilting, subtle use of synthesizers that aren't often particularly subtle.

Has only been to the White House once since Roosevelt Roosevelt became President.

Has a manager who once was very visible – popping up on CNBC every five minutes – suddenly vanished from view, or has your quiet manager suddenly developed a taste for the limelight?

What Once Was, But Has Disappeared throughout much of the Great Barrier Reef.

Has that energy changed your sound, or just brought it back to what it once was?