Sentence examples for once would have from inspiring English sources

Once would have been plenty.

Force once would have scoffed at such an idea.

I once would have said that it wasn't particularly important.

A defensive battle once would have favored Philadelphia.

Those women once would have laughed at him.

The very idea once would have been unthinkable.

Such revelations once would have been startling and subversive.

Two high-performance mainstays, Porsche and Ferrari, will show models that once would have seemed unthinkable.

Dr. Flanagan said soldiers are surviving injuries that once "would have killed them for sure".

Today's version is closer to accents that once would have been termed plebeian.

Increasingly America is turning a blind eye to measures elsewhere that it once would have excoriated.