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Example sentences for "once found"

  • I once found a wren family inside a hollow iron hitching-post in a city street.

  • He once found a family of young blue jays who seemed to be in trouble.

  • I once found a young blue jay who had come to the ground while trying his first flight.

  • I once found a Red-wing's nest and a Yellow-throat's home within a few feet of each other.

  • Merrill, of Spokane, believes that he once found a nest of the Bohemian Waxwing on the headwaters of the Little Spokane River near Milan.

  • I once found a nest which contained only a lusty Cowbird, while three proper fledgelings clung to the shrubbery below, and one lay dead upon the ground.

  • On the Columbia River I once found a family of Magpies occupying the basement of a huge Osprey's nest, and had reason to believe that the thrifty pies made efficient, if unwelcome, janitors.

  • They build in the months of February and March; but I once found a nest of young Indian Grey Tits so late as the 10th November.

  • I once found in July three nests all attached together in a sort of triangle, but whether built by separate pairs of birds I cannot say.

  • Aitken writes:--"I once found a nest in Bombay, not many feet above the level of the sea of course.

  • Once found, the type may be ameliorated according to the local conditions [96] and needs, and this is a question of improvement.

  • I once found in a meadow such a form of the meadow-buttercup (Ranunculus acris), and succeeded in keeping it in my garden for several years, but it did not make seeds and finally died.

  • A variety of the evening-primrose with small linear petals was once found by one of my sons growing wild near Amsterdam.

  • We once found an unusually tiny biguttatus vainly trying to drag a large Epeirid which her sting had reduced to helplessness.

  • We once found a Sphex ichneumonea at work storing her nest, and thought it would be interesting to pursue Fabre’s method and find out whether she were equally persistent in following her regular routine.

  • We once found a nest of this species in process of construction.

  • I once found a cocoon on the lower rail of a garden fence.

  • Wilkes (1773) states that he once found a caterpillar near Richmond Park, but the moth was not reared.

  • The olive brown, clouded greyish eggs are laid in neatly arranged batches around the stems or twigs of plants; I once found a batch in North Devon on a loose piece of rock.

  • I once found a nest of this bird with eggs about the middle of March.

  • I once found one of their nests in an old tin kettle, which had become fixed amongst the branches of a holly.

  • I once found a rather strange variety of this species.

  • I once found in abundance on the primrose (O.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "once found" 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:
    beautiful voice; doubly serrate; excellent wife; individual property; once agreed; once asked; once became; once before; once for; once knew; once made; once opened; once perceived; once recognized; once resolved; once started; once that; once told; once turned; once wrote; parted from; profound peace; shall miss; sound philosophy; three eyes; will engage