Sentence examples for could have once from inspiring English sources

It's odd to think how I could have once been so physically excited by you.

(For $1,300 you could have once bought an entire new Beetle, with paint).

Had Morkel not overstepped, Strauss's England career and the Test could have once again been in the balance.

Tourists visiting Oradour nowadays might well be puzzled that so powerful a memorial could have once been so divisive.

A human skeleton found under the playground of an Edinburgh school could have once belonged to a 16th-century pirate, archaeologists have said.

A major challenge of Mars exploration is to learn when and how liquid water could have once existed on the planet, now cold and arid.

Could we have once been a nation where American women were denied the basic right to vote?

Could we have once been a nation that barred people from living in the neighborhood of their choice?

Could we have once been a nation where white plantation owners actually owned African Americans based on the color of their skin?

Could we have once been a nation that barred men and women from marrying those they loved because of the different color of their skin?

Could we have once been a nation where African Americans were denied racial equality because of the color of their skin?