Sentence examples for once was this from inspiring English sources

"This is not the mom-and-pop sector that it once was; this is big business".

In a large organization as Sears once was, this is a management challenge of enormous consequence, and it all boils down to leadership.

It was a scene that felt ugly and pretty all at once: Was this a portrait of intimacy, two flawed individuals clawing their way toward trust?

Though the Cartoucherie is not the commune it once was, this isn't so much a meal, I sense, as a metaphor for how the Théâtre du Soleil operates.

Just as al-Qahera once was, this new capital is to be built from scratch – in this case by the Emirati businessman behind the Burj Khalifa – on virgin sands to the east of its predecessor.

There once was this beauty from the city And her boobs were so big it was a pity Her boyfriend marveled about her nice chest Then he proceeded to lunge for her breast Soon his mouth was jammed with her left titty.

Measured against the way things once were, this is certainly progress.

(Suggesting that Mr. Brown, who would be the state's oldest governor, is, like many of us, a little less limber than he once was. This reporter included).

"Never once was anything like this discussed in that cabinet.

This once was called progress.

Never once am I told this is an inconvenience.