Sentence examples for phrase at once from inspiring English sources

"Junk food" is a phrase at once grotesque and appealing.

The phrase at once recalls the millions of capacitors Sprague produced and presents an irony that the factory's former employees can surely appreciate just as much as, if not more than, the SoHo crowd mass moca hopes to attract.

When the piece opened with a clanking burst of percussion and pianos, for example, the bride fretted about the tresses of her hair in phrases at once agitated and elegiac.

Sadly, a majority of those in the widowed community have heard this phrase at least once during their Healing Journeys.

The sad reality is that a large majority of people coping with loss or life-challenge have heard this phrase at least once during the Healing Journey.

Both of these paragraphs are full of delightfully constructed phrases that at once tantalize with the possibility of discovery and cover for potential informational deficiencies.

In recent years, the phrase "American exceptionalism," at once resonant and ambiguous, has stolen into popular usage in electoral politics, in the mainstream media, and in academic writing with a profligacy that is hard to account for.

Any article about New York's "filthy, libertine" late-1970's music scene, especially one that makes reference to the film "The Blank Generation" and the book "Please Kill Me," should mention the iconic author of these phrases at least once.

The aria gives a gorgeous sampling of what Ms. Kasarova has to offer: an unmistakable dark, ruby timbre capable of a thousand exotic refinements, keen dramatic instincts and phrasing that seems at once born on the wing and thoroughly authoritative.

A jolly, grey-bearded cleric proud of his smattering of English phrases, he explains at once that although Qom is not a place for political decision-making that is the job of the government—"theoretical" decision-making that relatisnship withepolitics takes place freely.

It's an apt phrase, suggesting someone who is at once in the thrall of and subordinate to our mortality.