Sentence examples for once common from inspiring English sources

Usages frowned on today were once common.

Military experience was once common.

Razorback suckers, once common, are now rare.

Performing opera in translation was once common.

Slaughterhouses were once common in the Bay Area.

Relatives once common in Europe and Asia are extinct.

At once common-sensical and counterintuitive, "Reading Chekhov" is -- how else to put it?

Take marriage payments, a once-common practice.

Even once-common metals are harder to find.

The small skipper and wall brown are two other once-common species which declined drastically.

Once-common species such as lapwings, yellow wagtails, skylarks and kestrels have declined in numbers.