Sentence examples for uses only once from inspiring English sources

Which means that when Julie is talking about transporting the gravy boat -- which she uses only once a year, at Thanksgiving -- during the move to Thailand, she's really talking about all the angst involved in making such a huge change.

He's not guileless (he uses some marmalade to stick a customer's wrongly shorn hair back onto his scalp), but he's without malice; the closest thing to fury that he's got is what he calls his "hard stare," which he reserves for "when people forget their manners" and which (as in the first film) he uses only once — here, at a prison cook whom he considers impolite.

He tells us when a word is a hapax (used only once in that canticle), or a triple hapax (used only once in each canticle of the Comedy), or an "absolute hapax" (used only once in Italian literature).

The lot is used only once a year now.

One such is syringes that can be used only once.

By this process, the mold can be used only once.

Yet each will be used only once next season.

It was used only once, to print the coronation album.

Each DVD stores about 4.4 gigabytes of files and can be used only once.

But the F.D.A. estimates that the new rule might be used only once every three years.

One woman offered her wedding dress — used only once — for whatever you have.