Sentence examples for once functioned as from inspiring English sources
In fact the gardens and the butterfly ponds once functioned as part of the waterway in which rice was grown.
The Emancipation Proclamation was drafted here, and the rooms downstairs once functioned as a stopping point along the Underground Railroad.
This was the cover of "Chapter Two," and while, to me, the singer looked inviting, the birds thought differently and moved on to a room that once functioned as a milking parlor.
A charismatic Tuareg aristocrat who for years had been alternatively leading rebellions in the desert and helping tamp them down, he once functioned as a liaison for European governments seeking to pay huge ransoms to release kidnapped tourists.
Mountain and hill areas more generally, which extend widely in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Asia and Africa, once functioned as indigenous "regions of refuge" though they have become subject to major impacts and spatial integration involving national and global forces.
It was about 10 miles south of Captain Cook, not far from Lucky Farm, that we found Puuhonua o Honaunau, a "Place of Refuge" that once functioned as the oceanside home of Hawaii's royal chiefs and as a safe haven for women, children and noncombatants during times of war, and for lawbreakers hoping to evade a death sentence.
In a team that once functioned so well as a collective unit, Reus was indeed the beating heart of any passion or enthusiasm this team purposely portrayed through its love for beautiful soccer, while Neustädter and Dante formed the collective spine that held it together.
But in the process we've lost entirely the romance of neurosis, as well as its physical embodiment — a restless, grumbling, needy presence that once functioned in the collective mind as an early warning system, an inner voice that hedged against excessive optimism.
Once learned, however, they appear to function as well as alphabets.
Once the action gets going, we're off in a dreamy, layered land where dialogue functions as signals.
Charnel houses once again function as hospitals.
