Sentence examples for was once common from inspiring English sources

Military experience was once common.

Performing opera in translation was once common.

Torture was once common in Europe's market squares.

The ferruginous hawk (Buteo regalis) was once common to the grassland areas of Washington State.

It was once common, but now reproduces in only about a dozen wooded areas.

The Anegada iguana was once common on Puerto Rico and throughout the Virgin Islands.

It was once common to portray Liberty, personified in female form, on our coins.

Haggling was once common before department stores began setting fixed prices in the 1850s.

Gonococcal conjunctivitis, invasion of the conjunctiva by gonorrhea organisms, was once common among newborn infants, who became infected during delivery.

(It was once common to fight with a sword in one hand and a dagger in the other, for example).

It is the kind of building that was once common across Silicon Valley during the 1980s and even the 1990s.