Sentence examples for by the second time from inspiring English sources

By the second time, I'd made friends.

"And by the second time I was alone, raising my son as a single mom.

By the second time she had upgraded it to "the best song ever written".

The precipitated nanoparticles can be space-selectively "dissolved" by the second time femtosecond laser irradiation.

It was hard enough the first time, whereas by the second time I was reduced to recycling the same old jokes and hoping nobody noticed.

The first time I had to make a special trip to the bookstore might have been a fluke, but by the second time, I was irked.

Leiter also reached base twice, the first time by coaxing a walk, the second time by belting the seventh double of his career.

Anderson vexed him again by singling for the second time.

And twice, he demurred, the first time by ranting about his Electoral College victory, the second time by berating the Jewish reporter who dared to inquire about it.

Negotiators sometimes slide down a slippery slope of unethical behavior – fudging the numbers by a small amount the first time and by a larger one the second time.

3 2 2 THE SECOND TIME AROUND, by Mary Higgins Clark.