Sentence examples for once if only from inspiring English sources
Just once, if only for a moment, I wanted to be in his arms again.
In my experience, drivers will stop at once — if only because their deprivation has a time limit, the length of the cab ride.
It was not like living in two worlds at once, if only because imagination alone will not place you at the heart of a firestorm like the one that was burning then.
Iraq pays a bounty of $25,000 to the families of suicide bombers and $10,000 to the families of other Palestinian intifada casualties.He has raised a special force, the al-Quds army, to liberate Jerusalem, and says it would march on the holy city at once if only some other Arab country opened its borders to let it through.
But just for once, if only for the prestige element, couldn't a Larry Ellison make a phony announcement about donating $115 million, followed by a press release stating that the $115 million gift has been withdrawn?
Anyone can sell something once, if only to a parent.
Now, far from home, Mr. Trump is a loser once more, if only because a man he had cruelly and publicly bullied has emerged as a surprise winner.
Homemade mayonnaise is so different from anything you can buy in a jar that it's worth making at least once – even if only to see what all the fuss is about.
Officials at the House of Humor and Satire, a relic of a vanished regime, on more or less the margins of Central Europe, talk wistfully about becoming a more popular destination once again, if only they could come up with the money and a good plan.
You might want to find an actual diner, for example, where the faded imprints of the nighthawks' elbows can still be observed in the Formica countertop, or at least know the hallowed ground on which the diner once stood, if only to have a place for pilgrimage, a place to point at and say, "There it was".
I'm not sure jokes will be appropriate, but in one of his letters to Engels (written in May 1868), Marx recalled that his mother once said: 'If only Karl had made Capital instead of just writing about it.'" It is not clear whether she ever used the line.
