Sentence examples for once was not from inspiring English sources

This eagerness to transform everything at once was not just youthful ambition.

I walked all around, but once was not enough, so I went three times.

"I'm not as mobile as I once was, not like when I was a player.

Yet the mutiny, for once, was not that of the fans in black and white.

Bryant finished with 34 points and 10 rebounds, but for once was not the flashiest guard in the arena.

Of recent throwback soul, it's the album most likely to confuse a listener who knew how it once was, not how it was imagined to be.

Once wasn't enough.

Biden, for once, wasn't smiling.

"What once wasn't literature," Garber writes, "is now at the heart of the canon".

(As if once wasn't enough).

Killing the well once is not enough.