Sentence examples for it once was something from inspiring English sources

Or so at least used to be the case, before our collective relationship with the idea of home changed — gradually at first, as is the way of all such cultural shifts, and then ever more strikingly — into something other than it once was, something charged with an almost sexualized power, suffused with an insatiable quality of appetite.

Tom Brady wants a contract extension, and while he isn't holding out, his relationship with the team has been categorized as less positive than it once was, which is something that can be said of most of our human relationships.

The story of ballet in America also began as a devotion to ballet as it once was; it was seen as something from across the ocean.

While not the rarity it once was, gay parenting is still something that few people have direct experience of, and it is only natural that they ask questions.

With the new JMSN album, Berishaj unapologetically pushes the envelope of modern day soul music to something it once was in previous generations.

The siesta is no longer nearly as prevalent as it once was, but it still stands for something.

Once more it was something of a dampener that the mid-table visitors intended to play.

So when The Brilliant Club came to my attention a few months before I began my doctoral studies, I recognized at once that it was something I wanted to pursue.

As Joe Elliott of Def Leppard once put it: "There was something so … northern about Saxon.

In other words, the information was all there, but the method for viewing a lot of it at once wasn't something a layman could do.

In its early years, the SPSL's purpose was neither overtly political nor generally humanitarian: it was something at once more specific and more rarefied.