Sentence examples for but at once from inspiring English sources

"This is all so shocking but, at once, I sense a strange new era.

Here and in all the brighter episodes too much is going on to explain itself at one viewing; but at once I know I'm emotionally and structurally gripped.

I opened the window and broke off the icicle but at once a large heavy guard prowling outside brutally snatched it away from me.

Previous pictures of Kim Jong-un show that he has his father's sceptical and appraising glance, one not without humour but at once disdainful.

I had felt stifled by an intense need to live up to his expectations, to be creative, but at once I was liberated.

This could have the makings of a dry book, but D.T. Max says the book is anything but, at once absorbing and unsettling.

BUT not all at once.

Sure, people get sick, but all at once?

But almost at once he was propelled like "a champagne cork" back to the surface.

He felt empty and full — not one or the other but both at once.

This narcotised-sounding duo have the knack of being sweet but discomforting at once.