Sentence examples for for once was from inspiring English sources

Wenger would still have been plotting a comeback but patience, for once, was the wrong decision.

Absent for once was typical throbbing vibratos, excessive Romantic rubatos and sudden, attention-grabbing dynamic shifts.

McCain, for once, was impressed that Bush stood up to the pressure.

Yet the mutiny, for once, was not that of the fans in black and white.

Hutton's inquiry was a public inquiry which, for once, was covered exhaustively.

The present, for once, was looking O.K. Photograph by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images.

Lincoln was, for once, being overly optimistic.

And the world, for once, is listening.

Leicester, for once, are struggling.

■ Here, for once, is a personal moment.

Ineptitude, for once, is an artistic choice.