Example sentences for: once

How can you use “once” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Once the designbuild contract has been awarded, changes to owner requirements will generally incur heavy penalties to the project cost and schedule.

  • Today, the television and the mall do the job that once was the purview of parents.

  • The cliché is that traders and investors move as a "herd"--once the bears reach a critical mass, the entire market panics.

  • Not long ago, I was listening to an NPR talk show on which the moderator and his guest bemoaned the passing of the well-beloved family doctor, whose kindly manner and personalized attention once graced the healing arts.

  • Cells were washed once with ice-cold PBS and lysed in 1 ml of Extraction buffer (50 mM HEPES, pH 8, 50 mM NaCl, 10 μM β-mercaptoethanol, 1% Triton X-100, 1% sodium cholate, 1 mM PMSF, 2 μg/ml leupeptin, and 2 μg/ml aprotinin).


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