Sentence examples for once succeeded from inspiring English sources

"once succeeded" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to say that something happened or was achieved at one time in the past, but may not currently be true. For example: "He once succeeded in winning the lottery."

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He had not, for once, succeeded in doing what he set out to do.

But Republicans, having once succeeded in pushing through a big tax cut against the odds, are equally determined to go to the well a second time.

(From the New York Sun, in 1898: "When a negro once succeeded in hiding there he was as safe from recapture as if he had gone to Canada, although he might be within sight and sound of his master's home").

Yet to this day she regretted not having completed the course and received her diploma — "just to prove," as she had told a friend, "that I once succeeded at something".

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On the other hand, it has often been noticed that if a Korsakoff patient can once succeed in learning an item, he may be able to reproduce it correctly after an appreciable interval of time.

The handsome and likable Cory Stearns tries his best to inject ardour into Balanchine's "Duo Concertant", but finds no answering echo in Paloma Herrera, and Benjamin Millepied's "Everything Doesn't Happen at Once" succeeds only in contradicting its title.

This is assumed to be because proficient participants can utilize their brain resources besides bottom-up processing for higher language processing to comprehend the content, which can also help accelerate the processing speed once succeeding in automatizing the lower language processing.

There is, so far, no "scalable" solution that once succeeding in one part of the country, can be successfully exported to classrooms around the country.

Despite his ultimate failure to keep the Tyneside club out of the Championship last season, Townsend impressed greatly once Rafael Benítez succeeded Steve McClaren at St James Parkk.

By following up the Cegetel deal with news of more investment in Vivendi Universal Entertainment, Fourtou has once again succeeded in making his overall strategy a bit of a mystery.

In the match against Eton at Lord's, MacLaren once more succeeded when others struggled, and he scored 76 on a difficult pitch.

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