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Example sentences for "once thought"

  • I once thought I should never get back to the Towers, but here I am!

  • I once thought of speaking to you before I left, and confiding it all to you.

  • I once thought I should have liked to have been a king amongst money changers, and own railroad and steamship lines, and dominate men by sheer power.

  • I've come to see that that our failure hasn't been as much your fault as I once thought, as much as you yourself declare.

  • I once thought I could stand alone, that I had solved all problems for myself, but I know now how foolish I was.

  • I don't know why marriage should suddenly have become such a mockery and failure in our time, but I know that it is, that ours hasn't been such an exception as I once thought.

  • I once thought it should be read, Lust is but a cloudy fire, but Sir T.

  • I once thought it should be read, O that all were, as all would seem to be.

  • I once thought it should be inquisition, but the present reading is probably right.

  • I was then frugal of my mirth] By breaking this speech into exclamations, the text may stand; but I once thought it must be read, If I was not then frugal of my mirth.

  • During all question of the gentle truce] I once thought to read, During all quiet of the gentle truce.

  • I once thought it should be read, you into him; but, perhaps, it is a familiar phrase, like do me this.

  • And all to all] I once thought it should be hail to all, but I now think that the present reading is right.

  • He once thought to follow him and beg his pardon; but the contempt with which he had been treated, more than all the anger, with-held him.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "once thought" 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:
    another story; but will; just like; metrical form; morally certain; more probable; once apparent; once asked; once established; once for; once found; once knew; once made; once more; once observed; once ordered; once proceeded; once recognised; once started; once taken; once told; once wrote; rich woods; somewhat resembling; tell tales; three leaves