Sentence examples for was this once from inspiring English sources

The problem was this: Once I bought the new gadget, I realized that a cheap smartphone app could easily replace it.

And my situation was this: Once a week, for 13 months, I visited my fiancée in prison, where she was serving her time for a nonviolent crime she'd committed 10 years earlier.

The only good thing that happened in Carib Beach was this: once a month, on a Sunday, the congregation of a local church poured out of a coach at the front gates, lined up fully dressed in the courtyard, and then walked into the pool for a mass baptism.

He was, this once-dead Wally, not the strangest concoction of Homo sapiens genetic material ever presented to me, but he was certainly the most complexly pathetic and ill-starred — a wide-eyed, positive-outlook type, ill at ease and conspicuous in his lumpy flesh, but also strangely serene and on occasion pompous and ribald, like the downstate S.A.E. he was back when life was simpler.

What is this once stimulating station giving us?

Not once was this sentence ever understood.

I once was this close to Elvis Presley.

"Last year I'd be doing this once a week.

This was you once, this was us.

This was administered once during the semester.

This was repeated once more.