Sentence examples for known at once from inspiring English sources
Gardley's ear for the sound of theatrical speech makes itself known at once: MISSIONARY: Lord, it's hot.
The old Madonna (that is, the young Madonna) would have known at once that this was a rubbish idea.
Enver Hoxha's censors must have known at once that this surreal dystopia vividly conjured up, in carefully deflected form, the secret-police apparatus of modern Albania.
Welles, with his sense of the dramatic, would have known at once what a sensational idea a movie about Hearst was.
He was a proud American, as well as a Jew; a robustly bloody-minded talent, such as his, would have known at once that fiction insists on freedom: indeed, fiction is freedom, and freedom is indivisible (hence, later on, his passionate support for the writers of Czechoslovakia).
Giselle makes her first entrance to the music of a waltz, and the audience would have known at once that the ballet was set in Germany.
Twenty-seven years later she said of me, on stage at the Harrogate crime writing festival, that she knew "at once" that I "was absolutely trustworthy, honourable and honest".
I knew at once it was perfect.
She knew at once how much he had paid.
Hamilton knew at once that the wound was mortal.
