Sentence examples for once lacking from inspiring English sources

Cromwell, for once lacking resourcefulness, could provide no answer.

Now he was trying to do it again, although for once lacking the support.

Has her relationship with Apatow – professional and personal – given her the confidence she once lacked?

American musicians once lacked labor rights and worked in very similar conditions without complaining, because complaining got musicians fired.

Saturday by Ian McEwan 279pp, Cape, £17.99 It's odd now to think that Ian McEwan once lacked confidence as a novelist.

"We are with it, not against it," he said, speaking forcefully and deliberately, with a confidence he once lacked.

As immigrants put down deep roots in America, villages in Oaxaca that once lacked young men are becoming utterly depopulated.

Revived once again for the touring company, this time by Paul Higgins, it has now acquired some of the humanity it once lacked.

Clark's youthful Terriers, average age 22, for once lacked bite up front, despite starting as the more incisive of the teams.

This is typical of the so-called "long-tail" phenomenon: books that once lacked a market can be shifted at any time off Amazon's virtual shelves.

At the same time, Mr. Cain — having never held elected office and having run for it just once — lacks the credentials of a traditional nominee.