Sentence examples for once lively from inspiring English sources

They're at once lively and lifeless: pharaohs in hard hats.

The once lively hotel has seen only a trickle of guests in the last year.

It is at once lively and bluesy, hopeful and tragic, fabulously virtuosic and as plain as a cast-iron skillet.

In the streets of this once lively industrial neighbourhood, two out of three houses are for sale.

The once lively and affectionate young woman had been demanding more and more paid days off, regularly threatening to quit and growing increasingly inattentive.

Just across the broad arched pedestrian bridge on Damplein -- the main square -- stands the Speeltheatre, an 18th-century building that recalls the town's once lively cultural life.

The light filtering through a punctured ceiling lent the once-lively boxing ring a noirish cast.

These are the kinds of issues he hopes the once-lively Ethical Culture Society, woefully quiet in recent years, can tweak New Yorkers to ponder.

Centralia sits on one of the largest coal reserves in the world, but the once-lively and industrial town is dying out slowly due to sulphurous fumes and sink holes appearing in weakened roads.

Now that the war between north and south has abated, Sri Lanka is seeing a resurgence in a once-lively tourist business.

"Were the once-lively little animals who were ground into pizza toppings shot, strangled or snared?