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Example sentences for "one time"

  • She was the daughter of an Englishman, at one time a public official in a small way in Dublin.

  • The questioning of Kostolo drew from him the admission that he had had a number of mistresses all at one time.

  • Here also he had had doubts of the nature of the malady; at one time he had suspected pregnancy, a suspicion for which there were good grounds.

  • Bailli, at one time a clerk to Boursier, said he had helped his patron to distribute arsenic and rat-poison in the shop cellars.

  • A friend of mine menthioned him to me at one time.

  • Simple as the toilets were, there was a great deal of running up and down, laughing and talking, and at one time a strong smell of burned hair pervaded the house.

  • Tuesday Eve Had a lively time in my seminary this morning, for the children acted like Sancho, and at one time I really thought I should shake them all round.

  • I thought at one time that he was about to shake his head in sign of refusal; but no, he looked once more at the pitcher, and the temptation was too strong.

  • The interior of the walls was blackened, as if by fire; fire also appeared at one time to have raged out of the window-holes, for the outside about them was black, portentously so.

  • I became very sorrowful and despondent, and at one time I had almost resolved to plunge again into the whirlpool of dissipation; it was a dreadful resource, it was true, but what better could I do?

  • A school for little children had been often in her thoughts; and, at one time, she had begun a review of her early studies in the New England Primer, with a view to prepare herself for the office of instructress.

  • At one time, her eyes chanced to rest on Alice Pyncheon's harpsichord.

  • It is divided into the old and new town, the latter of which was at one time probably a mere suburb.

  • Coruna was at one time a place of considerable commerce, the greater part of which has latterly departed to Santander, a town which stands a considerable distance down the Bay of Biscay.

  • I stumbled on amongst ruined walls, and at one time found I was treading over vaults, as I suddenly started back from a yawning orifice into which my next step, as I strolled musing along, would have precipitated me.

  • I have been accustomed to bookselling," he continued, "and at one time possessed a small shop of my own in this place.

  • The church hath authority to establish that for an order at one time which at another time it may abolish.

  • As much thread as is used in a needle at one time.

  • As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time.

  • At one time it seemed like something wanting in HER: at another, like something wanting in myself, which hindered me from understanding her as I ought.

  • Dinas, trough at one time a place of considerable importance, if we may judge from its name, which signifies a fortified city, is at present little more than a collection of filthy huts.

  • It stands some miles below Caerlleon ar Wysg, and was probably built when that place, at one time one of the most considerable towns in Britain, began to fall into decay.

  • The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.

  • Learners should not be too much crowded with a heap or multitude of documents or ideas at one time.

  • And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.

  • These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.

  • And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.

  • My shape never stays the same, and my aspect is twofold: at one time it contrasts its outstretched limbs, at another shoots them out when closed; now disentangling the members and now rolling them back into a coil.

  • Apparently, at one time, judging from Frode's law, only chiefs and warriors were burnt.

  • The island of Saint Catharine, as it may be remembered, was at one time captured by Mansvelt, Morgan's master in his trade of piracy.

  • Each governor, at one time, was free to do almost as he pleased in his own province.

  • She told them that she had at one time been a "costume reader.

  • Condy's desertion of them was often spoken of by the men of his club with whom he had been at one time so intimate, and the subject happened to be brought up again one noon when Jack Carter was in the club as George Hands' guest.

  • At one time I thought I would follow the whole party, and kill them in the darkness with my stiletto when opportunity offered.

  • I concluded that this in itself would strike terror into the hearts of our opponents, who were accustomed to see the whole force engaged at one time, and knew nothing about troops held in reserve, or tactics of any kind whatsoever.

  • The blacks told me that at one time it had been one of the most important penal settlements in Australia, but had to be abandoned on account of the prevalence of malarial fever arising from the swamps in the neighbourhood.

  • A closer examination convinced me that the cairn had been built by some European--possibly a castaway--and that at one time it had probably been surmounted by a flag-staff as a signal to passing ships.

  • At one time I had it in my mind to make him go naked like myself, but on consideration I thought it advisable to allow him to retain his shirt, at any rate for a time, as his skin was not so inured to the burning sun as my own.

  • At one time needles of ice were encountered settling abundantly with a crackling sound upon their notebooks.

  • Arban was at one time on a level with the highest point of Mont Blanc, the top of which, standing out well above the clouds, resembled "an immense block of crystal sparkling with a thousand fires.

  • Forty aerial scouts, it may be said, are hardly needed for purposes of outlook at one time; but it appears that this was not the consideration which stood in the way of M.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one time" 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:
    ninety feet; observe them; one case; one direction; one great; one half; one hand; one has; one hundred and twenty; one knows; one may; one night; one sees; one sense; one single; one that; one thousand; one was; one whom; one would have said; one years; ont pas; she stood; this type; whose authority; wood spirit