Sentence examples for having once set from inspiring English sources

My seventh-grade English teacher, whose nickname was Ashcan, was famous for having once set his tweed jacket on fire by absent-mindedly stuffing a lit pipe on top of a book of matches in his pocket; he was also famous for having once become trapped, flat on his back, between his desk and the rear wall of the classroom, after tipping too far in his chair.

So when he was house hunting recently in the Philadelphia area, he used a new web technology called immersive photography to inspect a $2 million mansion, which he then bought without having once set foot inside.

After two years, she'll be killed, never having once set foot on solid ground or breathed fresh air.

Magee, who's more than 6 feet tall, was a force to be reckoned with in his heyday, having once set a world record with a 1,180-pound 1,180-pound

Keennon had once set it free among some real hummingbirds, and one of them, apparently mistaking it for a real bird, had relentlessly attacked it.

The idea of blowing up the school came from a terrorist he calls Isam who had once set off 11 car bombs simultaneously.

But where such a call might have once set off a political tempest among Communists, nationalists, reformers and Soviet hangers-on, this winter it provoked little reaction.

Another of the men was a pre-med student who had once set his sights on an internship at the Mayo Clinic.

In fine, it is impossible to prevent, and only great simplicity can hope to prevent, human nature doing what it has once set its mind upon, by force of law or by any other deterrent force whatsoever.

In one of the more memorable moments, the Brotherhood began working in court, with the very government that had once set out to destroy it, to stop Maadi's party.

Few of the neighbors had any idea that the frail old woman with no teeth had once set speed record after speed record driving for Bugatti in the 1930's.