Sentence examples for once held that from inspiring English sources

Shaquille O'Neal once held that title, but his appeal as a jumbo footwear salesman has fizzled.

The myth once held that heroic cavalrymen rescued distressed homesteaders from howling savages.

Comolli, a Frenchman, once held that power at Tottenham, though it is notable that the Spurs' revival came after Comolli departed.

Whisenhunt and Russ Grimm, who is now Whisenhunt's assistant head coach but once held that job for the Steelers, were widely considered the leading candidates to succeed Bill Cowher after the 2006 season.

There were a few tweaks: Miranda said in an interview that he'd rewritten a joke about the Vice-Presidency for a British audience that might not know that John Adams once held that office.

In an Op-Ed article in The New York Times on Sunday, the director, Jacob J. Lew, gives three examples of those calls: proposed cuts for programs that support community organizers, a job the president once held; that clean the Great Lakes; and that finance community development.

Napkin rings once held napkins that were reused, but are now merely decorative.

The second, from philosophy, refers to an un-forgetting; the rediscovery of an innate or inherited knowledge once held but that has been lost.

Mrs. Clinton said she was honored to be seeking the same Senate seat that he once held, one that her supporters often invoke as having been won by a non-New Yorker.

The empty space of which the sand now resides once held a mechanism that allowed us to know the precise moment of the present time.

The subway roared from beneath the sidewalk grate as he pointed to buildings that once held this business or that one, which closed down this year or that.