Sentence examples for of time only to from inspiring English sources

He often disappears for long periods of time only to pop up seemingly from nowhere to score the winning goal.

Seeing something once, for a passing moment of time, only to move on and forget, is no longer the standard form of experience.

Or the student who sees English as a waste of time, only to come across a book that hooks her on literature for life.

Marable worked on the book for an ungodly amount of time, only to die the week before it was published, earning my writerly sympathies.

Some jurisdictions used the funds to provide one-time raises; others retained employees for a short-period of time, only to lay them off later.

And many have dropped off the map for long stretches of time, only to resurface looking awful, with bags under their eyes and shoulders hunched under the weight of so much responsibility.

Always hazardous, open at the best of times only to a small proportion of affluent Muslims, the pilgrimage brought a taste of high Islamic civilisation to a provincial trading town.

Preston Shumpert and Damone Brown each had 23 points for host Syracuse (17-3, 6-2 Big East), which seemed to have this rivalry game in control a couple of times only to see the Hoyas (17-3, 4-3) get within 4 points twice in the late going.

Eubank then goes down a couple of times - only to the knee, but neither were knockdowns, more slips/Eubank almost swinging himself off his own feet with big punches that don't connect.

We've seen these things get whipped out a handful of times, only to be quickly stowed.

She came so close a number of times only to bounce back and surprise the doctors.