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Example sentences for "being once"

  • Anacharsis, being once at the assembly, expressed his wonder at the fact that in Greece wise men spoke and fools decided.

  • The service of the foot, Being once gangren'd, is not then respected For what before it was.

  • Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent; For women are as roses, whose fair flow'r Being once display'd doth fall that very hour.

  • This he effected, though not without considerable difficulty, being once or twice compelled to have recourse to the butt of his musket, to drive back unauthorized intruders.

  • This he effected, though not without considerable difficulty, being once or twice compelled to have recourse to the butt of his musket to drive back unauthorized intruders.

  • Every animal system necessarily exists under a duplex character, being once in the service of the vegetative systems and once for itself; or it exists as trunk and as blossom.

  • That matter belongs only to the Inflammables, which, being once kindled in exposure to the air, continues to burn of itself.

  • Being once solid, it can no more coagulate into a globe.

  • And if such is the importance of the help secured, no less is the charge following: "And thou, being once converted, confirm thy brethren.

  • But supposing that the vulgar reading is the true one, Peter's being once placed by S.

  • Being once at Chatham, to view a ship just finished, on the stocks, he asked the famous Killigrew, if he did not think he should make an excellent shipwright?

  • An Hibernian officer, being once in company with several who belonged to the same corps, one of them, in a laugh, said he would lay a dozen of claret, that the Irishman made a bull before any other of the party.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being once" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being about; being acted; being boiled; being born; being bound; being composed; being connected; being covered; being deprived; being destitute; being elected; being given; being killed; being known; being late; being like; being now; being once; being one; being seen; being shot; being smaller; being thus; being true; drew back; the cattle