Sentence examples for once was it from inspiring English sources
And he played down the notion of a resurgent mob, saying that while it had been weakened, and "is probably not nationwide in its scope, in its impact, as it once was," it remained a continuing major threat "to the economic well-being of this country".
When the island airport changed its name from Coolidge Field, after the US base it once was, it became Vere Bird International.
But whatever the value once was, it is far less since the Reagan Administration, as part of its push at the Tokyo summit for stronger sanctions against Libya, decided to order the oil producers out of that country by June 30.
You can see that the staircase is a shadow of what it once was; it was once much wider.
(While hardly the haven of experimentation that it once was, it is still a mystifying choice for such conventional work).
Its appeal was all-consuming, often dangerously so: more than once was it cited in divorce cases.
Once -- was it just over two months ago?
It is not what it once was.
That isn't how it once was.
