Sentence examples for once fun from inspiring English sources

Yes, children, sex really was once fun.

Shopping, as old-timers may remember, was once fun.

A once fun night of national celebration, seems to have become an annual gathering of people in "wacky" hats, confiding in each other that they "don't really get Guinness".

Once the offspring hit adolescence, whatever was once fun about the weekend house — and that includes the people whose names are on the deed — is now de facto a big bore.

There is grandfather Fraser, chief squanderer of the large family fortune, who runs off with a fast woman and then returns to live out the rest of his life under the unforgiving ire of his wife, an Anglo-Irishwoman who was once fun but has been turned hysterical by a disappointment she cannot face or describe.

-- so for once fun is guaranteed for all.

Henry's daughter describes the once fun-loving man she knew, who used to sing every chance he got, encouraging his children to sing along, even stopping sometimes to sing and swing around poles.

Padded swings, padded slides, padded gyms, padded seesaws and go-wheelies: all the once-fun equipment had gotten upholstered by the city in this red loony-bin foam".

"Adulting" is often shouted about quasi-ironically on Instagram as a hybrid of once-fun experiences that now have a bittersweet coating of responsibility; "getting boozy at our Saturday bottomless brunch, but talking pensions!

The first is that having a baby often makes once-fun couples boring.

This builds confidence and makes the once not-fun activity fun.