Sentence examples for once beautiful from inspiring English sources

The phrase "once beautiful" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that was beautiful in the past, but is no longer in its present state. Example: "The once beautiful garden was now overgrown and neglected."

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once-decent and once beautiful country.

Rumors circulated that the warden's wife was once beautiful.

A once beautiful, then pathetic, lost and heroically stupid boy.

The vista from the top of the building is overwhelming at once beautiful and terrifying.

Without overreaching she delivers line after line that can be at once beautiful, casual, wry, offbeat.

To share, that once beautiful verb, has become an awful emotional splurge.

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The once-beautiful town was vulgarised, vandalised, ruralised and 'censored' by the state under various labels and excuses.

A once-beautiful farm now resembles the Canyon of Heroes after a victory parade.

Trash is scattered everywhere, in a once-beautiful seaside city with no central electricity, water, police or schools.

Since the 1990s, nearly 3,000 factories have been built on the once-beautiful shores of the lake.

Almost all of the once-beautiful Tatra Mountain valleys are now self-sufficient housing districts with employment provided by their own factories.

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