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Example sentences for "once they"

  • At once they began to close up from each side to block his way.

  • Like as an electric shock these words acted upon these queer little dogs, and at once they seemed to forget all about the cold and most vigorously set to work, and in a very few minutes had discovered another kitchen.

  • At once they lifted up their voices and shouted words of cheer and encouragement to the imprisoned Pasche.

  • Lord, how delightful 'tis to see A whole assembly worship thee, At once they sing, at once they pray!

  • For though the pope has lost his interest here, And pardons are not sold as once they were, No papist more desirous to compound, Than some grave sinners upon English ground.

  • Once they did, and I had Milton's example for it, not disapproved by Addison.

  • Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

  • Once they made a cruise of considerable length to Bar Harbor and elsewhere.

  • Once they fired a volley at a row of mullen stalks, waving on the brow of a hill, and once a picket shot at his own horse that had got loose and had wandered toward him in the dusk.

  • Once they passed a saw-mill, set and buzzing; once they had to wait in the woods while a string of cattle stampeded by; once they saw a man in a skiff far down the Di.

  • And as they stood there, all at once they heard a sharp and angry bark that seemed to come from some dog running loose in the forest.

  • All at once they seemed to see an island rising up out of the sea.

  • At first they were as chummy as could be; then all at once they got to quarrelling about something, became very much excited, and raised their voices.

  • Once they attempt to rush us, however, we will let them have a volley and drive them back.

  • At once they took to their paddles, and were urging their craft into the centre of the Sarebus when a long, dark object which had been lying in close to the bank shot out behind them and came racing in their wake.

  • Becoming silent at once they leaned as far towards the bank of the river as the undergrowth would permit, and watched the spot where the prahu had moored beside the boom.

  • All at once they beheld a light twinkling in the distance like a star.

  • All at once they heard a voice resounding on the hills above them as it were from the clouds.

  • Once they opened as if to call him back with a cry of anguish and love; but Eliza, pressing her hand violently upon her mouth, forced the cry back into her heart, and gazed down on Ulrich's receding form.

  • Illustration: "Once they came to the very edge of the trench to be slain there"] "But a black night would oppress me less than the ghastly whitish glare of the snow.

  • Once they came to the very edge of the trench to be slain there, and the body of a German fell in at John's very feet.

  • Once they overtook a sailing schooner that was speeding along with a fair breeze.

  • This said, three fierce assaults at once they give, The hardy soldiers all would die or win, And on three parts resistance makes the king, And rage gainst strength, despair gainst hope doth bring.

  • And now they say if I do not pay up at once they'll expose me to the doctor and my folks.

  • Once they passed a man on horseback, wrapped up in furs.

  • Once they crossed a split in the rocks several feet wide and of great depth, and it made Dave shudder to peer down into the dark and forbidding depths below.

  • Now placed in order, the Phaeacian train Their cables loose, and launch into the main; At once they bend, and strike their equal oars, And leave the sinking hills and lessening shores.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "once they" 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:
    called attention; expose them; human sympathy; much delighted; ninety days; once again; once asked; once began; once came; once found; once heard; once knew; once ordered; once proceeded; once recognized; once said; once sent; once that; once took; once went; promoted over the trees; reveals himself; ships subject; there would; usually propagated; what estate