How To Use Once in a while In A Sentence

Finally she says to me: You could at least clean that damn thing every once in a while.
Once in a while we go to a restaurant but usually we eat at home.
Mostly it was full of anorexic patients, but once in a while I would see this one obese lady in the waiting room. Times, Sunday Times
Everybody makes a mistake once in a while.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently. Tony Robbins

Slowly I settled against him and I listened to his breathing; it was raspy and every once in a while he would cough, but he still held me tight.
Thus he became a tacit assenter in wrong-doing, for circumstances thrust this, once in a while, upon the best of our citizens. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
I have to watch once in a while because its like rubbernecking at an accident; you cant turn away and cannot believe what you are seeing. CNN Poll: Americans mostly agree with Obama on Afghanistan
Beside a good old fashionned blockbuster is good once in a while ... Bang Bang, Bang Bang
But once in a while people are brave and regather their energies in the face of further governmental arrogations of power.
Once in a while the really dense woods, such as boxwood and ebony can fool me, and I really have to work hard to tell the difference between Madasgar and Honduras rosewood.
Likewise. I might add a little oregano, garlic, onions, salt, and butter once in a while.
Once in a while a tennis match will reach its climax with both players convinced they are going to win until the last stroke of the last rally.
How about for every WoW character above level 20, you get an "archenemy", an NPC who appears every once in a while to try and mess with you. Foozles I Have Known, Quests I Have Done
He likes to put the needle in a little bit once in a while. Times, Sunday Times
She laughed a bit and they continued on their way, James whining every once in a while.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Once in a while a student may tip a pot of paint over the head of the life-sized copper statue of the dog by George IV Bridge.
Get a freaking babysitter and go out once in a while.
Every once in a while, a rat-a-tat of heavy rain would pelt the windows, drowning out the demanding drone of wind.
Employed in the mailroom at CBC and called upon once in a while to do part-time stagehand chores, I jumped at the chance to work on Ninety Minutes Live for a week, much of it spent being a gopher for the host.
I wasn't thinking you meant aught by it, lad, and I'd not give two coppers for a youngster as didn't want to see his elders brought down a peg or two once in a while.
Every once in a while they'd know I was having a problem because I punched myself in the leg because I learned about pain deferment.
A real hare once in a while would liven things up, too. Times, Sunday Times
Every once in a while some robo-cop appears in a newsbyte and is said to be ‘a few years away’ but never seem to show up.
Once in a while they would say something about the leader being senile and wanting revenge on me.
Instead, they wake up once in a while, at predetermined times, and blast their data to a nearby mote, which then collects and retransmits that data to another nearby mote, and so on, until finally the data reaches a central collection node or recording computer. Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Military Swarms
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
Once in a while, the numbers fall, the abacus clicks into a pattern.
Likewise. I might add a little oregano, garlic, onions, salt, and butter once in a while.
Once in a while the really dense woods, such as boxwood and ebony can fool me, and I really have to work hard to tell the difference between Madasgar and Honduras rosewood.
Every once in a while, top corporate executives are actually made to pay for doing something not so smart.
With maybe a shovel-nosed snake once in a while, just for variety. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment
Your body needs a rest once in a while. Times, Sunday Times
It's a rare manager who, at least once in a while, isn't firmly convinced that his department's performance would perk up dramatically if one employee or another were quietly throttled.
John deBrun had been muttering about Joginstead and a bath under his breath, while every once in a while Oaxyctl caught the long-off look of mourning in the man's eyes. Crystal Rain
Mr. Billingham's mouth, normally in a fixed smile, was as straight as the ruler Mother uses to whack me once in a while, a ruler facing horizontally.
A lot of the time it's leanan sidhe, although once in a while you might hear something about a pooka. Automatic Typewriter
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I respect your wits, which is why I think I can joke with you once in a while. Think Progress » Let The Cameras Roll
The great serialist monstrosities from the 50's and 60's have kind of been sorted through and the ones that will likely endure are still programmed once in a while. My Prerogative
Her washwoman's family consisted of four children, and a husband who blew in gaily once in a while when in need of funds, or when recovering from a protracted spree, which made a few days 'nursing very welcome. In Times Like These
Once in a while we had a major blowout.
I strongly recommend that everybody treat themselves to a nice evening out once in a while.
He would push or slap her once in a while.
Once in a while, order a whole fish from your fishmonger and try cooking it whole, on the bone.
My Pontiac wasn't just fast every once in a while; it was fast every doggone time down the racetrack.
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. Edward Abbey
I lead a perfectly normal life, have dreams and ambitions just like the good children out there, and even realize some of those dreams every once in a while.
Vacuum curtains once in a while and give the sheets an airing as often as you can.
As the parent of two soon-to-be collegians, it has once in a while penetrated my consciousness that a better tuition deal could be a reason to leave the 'law school in Paradise'. Discourse.net: Ten Reasons Why You Should Teach Here -- And Three Why You Shouldn't (v. 3.0)
We have to avert our eyes from the bombs and fires once in a while to look at the other images of this war.
What wives wish their hubbies would do once in a while Ideal first kiss locations in Japan
He likes to put the needle in a little bit once in a while. Times, Sunday Times
This is accessed by clicking on a sword icon that appears on-screen every once in a while.
I saw her in the shop every once in a while.
I do not know -- but someday you and all in the world will see it, when the Earth people are kind to each other -- not once in a while, but every day -- _all the while_ -- Half-Past Seven Stories
The great serialist monstrosities from the 50's and 60's have kind of been sorted through and the ones that will likely endure are still programmed once in a while. My Prerogative
Once in a while a pedestrian stepped off the sidewalk and the traffic swooshed round them like water hitting a weir.
Wash out your ego every once in a while, as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well. Terri Guillemets
Sure it's fun to get rigged up in some flapping strides and dance along to some dire disco every once in a while.
I got out my small stack of exams from my summer class and, looking up once in a while to watch the people pass by, I graded question 1.
Every once in a while it is refreshing to put aside detailed academic monographs in favor of shorter studies that are full of suggestive concepts and ideas.
I like the idea of browsing them every once in a while; and a crate is not really the most suitable way to browse them without damaging them. Whee!
Perhaps some actual variety in broadcast programming would draw older listeners back, or at least have them visit once in a while.
Once in a while you see knuckle bump, also known as daps and then there's what we've been using. CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2008
Every once in a while there will be a fad for something-like the present yuppie cupcake business- trading on some sort of mix of nostalgia and camp, but for the most part, there's that unfortunate association with junkiness. Cake
Once in a while it was broken by chacma baboons that approached the compound in search of a handout. Mission Of Honor
Once in a while while surfing, the browser will do the same thing - the dialog box will ask if I should connect or stay offline.
I've mostly cracked the neurotic hypochondria I suffered from as a teenager, but once in a while it creeps back into my life.
Through the closes the wind ever stalked like something fierce and blooded, rattling the iron snecks with an angry finger, breathing beastily at the hinge, and running back a bit once in a while to leap all the harder against groaning lintel and post. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
Once in a while, a leaf will remain beyond its normal time, or drop off and be pressed for future generations to admire.
Every once in a while, you can see where the guys are hamming for the camera.
Every once in a while, Roger would invite me to join him for a screening of a new film.
Missing a meal once in a while never did anyone any harm.
And if the sound of the surf crashing against the rocks isn't doom-laden enough, Flanders is sure to echo the sound by walking to center stage and intoning "Boom!" every once in a while in a meaningful manner. Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: "Nixon In China!" Olympia Dukakis On A Milkcart! Bloody Ethan Hawke! More!
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
When we got inside, I sat on one of the beds and started stuffing my face with the bread and cheese I bought, once in a while pausing to take a gulp of water.
Once in a while, it would be refreshing to hear these supporters condemn the actions of those few, rather than obscuring their behaviour behind the genuine upset of the innocent others.
Nothing to adventuresome except for once in a while when my mother brought home fresh crab or a coconut. Weird Foods « Colleen Anderson
Directors need to take a step back once in a while and ask themselves: how well are they representing their constituent members?
Even now, once in a while, she -- but, thank heaven, not _once_ since meeting Lord Raygan; she was sure of that. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl
At museums in India people, every once in a while, will put kumkum vermilion and flowers on the sculptures, treating them as objects of worship. Vishnu exhibit brings Hindu holy art to US audiences
However, once in a while, one of those no-hopers turns it around and becomes an unlikely cult hero.
If she does it once in a while, I don't see a problem with it ... girls dont you hate this! when you call your bf and hes playing vid games and he dosent listen to you ...? en Español Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
21: 48 Listening: Link Wray-Link Wray (Polydor, 1971, vinyl) Once in a while a slab of swamp stomp is just what a feller needs to hear. Tweets I have known
I feel the need to comment on the dementedness of the human species every once in a while.
It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.
Everybody makes a mistake once in a while.
Though he strongly disagreed with it, Undran had been known to explode once in a while towards petty matters such as scratches on car doors or streaks on the windows.
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.
It wouldn't be such a big deal if it happened just every once in a while, but this has been going on for some time… and you're feeling cruddy about it.
Her attempts to manage her own dark straight hair consisted of keeping it cut short and stabbing at it with a curling iron every once in a while.
I do get a little anxious once in a while.
Once in a while a singer new to Glyndebourne gets the house tingling. Times, Sunday Times
There are two kinds of talents, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while. Pearl Bailey
Every once in a while a boxer dies in the ring or a soccer player collapses on the field, and such tragedies make us acutely aware of our own frailty.
His arm was wrapped around me and every once in a while his lips would brush my cheek.
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
Once in a while, an artist comes along that completely revolutionizes rap music.
For once it was not an exploration of gluttony (as say the absolute * need* once in a while to flambe some bananas with butter, sugar and brandy) but of ritual, nostalgia and a homage to my fast fading mother. Archive 2008-06-01
The bathroom needs a good wipe once in a while, but not a full out, gloves-on scrub fest.
Generally the secret to reading lots of books is *consistent reading* eg I cannot say I have watched a movie end to end this year, I just sped forward through several I tried but bored me quickly, I have no clue what's on TV except from online headlines and gaming is something I help my son with once in a while with but never play for myself - so if you think of all the TV/gaming/movie time translated into book reading time and you will see that 2-4 hours of reading daily is achievable and consistent with family, work... and good book selection/mix so you always have books that fit your mood, you do not get burned out on one genre... Liviu's Top Books of 2009
Every once in a while it is refreshing to put aside detailed academic monographs in favor of shorter studies that are full of suggestive concepts and ideas.
Every once in a while Spade is able to raise a few smirks with his off-the-cuff zingers, but because the plot feels so ‘sitcom-y’ and forced, all the laughs are diluted.
Again Im with OTM do it yourself with mentors there is always the option to sit in with a pro once in a while to get the best of both worlds. Are You a DIY Dog Trainer?
Now, every once in a while, one of these New Englanders that owns the earth, especially that little stone portion called Plymouth Rock, which we never begrudged them, gets up at a great dinner and reads a fine speech and talks about civil and religious liberty which the Puritan came over to cause to flourish. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
Missing a meal once in a while never did anyone any harm.
After 25 years of perfect attendance, Ed Batka , 59, a compounding specialist at the company's Los Angeles facility, says I get razzed once in a while. 26 Years on the Job and Not One Sick Day
My classroom blog is more of a classroom management/organization blog where I post assignments, worksheets and a link every once in a while and it's URI is hogg.wordpress.com Vicki D. How I started in wikis, the Flat Classroom and Second Life
Once in a while pilots would actually penetrate Soviet airspace, intentionally or unintentionally.
The essay as a whole is rather critical of the Bush administration, and I’m all for saying something nice every once in a while, but that point kind of muddies the broader picture. Just A Little Patience, Mmmmmmmmmm Yeah | ATTACKERMAN
The horses were out there, chewing on grass or napping, and every once in a while, we could hear a playful whinny and would see a few of the animals running around with their heads held high.
OK, she calls for tofu once in a while; but her pasta with tomato "pesto" is the best homemade dish taking five minutes (apart from boiling the capellini) you'll ever prepare. BEANS 'N' GREENS GO GLAMOROUS
Your body needs a rest once in a while. Times, Sunday Times
But every once in a while, the images become a source of awe and wonder, thought and anticipation.
Hopefully it will be a place to find new voices, divergent thoughts, and something worth thinking about or laughing at once in a while.
Once in a while the right dress, fancy footwear and a stylish hairdo takes care of that.
The train passed through bright sunlit gardens and dark tunnels as it rattled over the tracks, stopping every once in a while and blowing its long low whistle.
The nice thing about kapok is that you can refluff it every once in a while to keep its original floatation.
History shows that once in a while even a so-called gadfly has been able to effect change. Clone Cindy's Pelosi Strategy In Your Backyard
While I've been known to egosurf my own name online every once in a while, setting a Google Alert on my name means I don't have to do it so much. GigaOM Network
Every once in a while, my brain would clear enough to do some mindless chore, like fill the water pots or fold the blankets, but otherwise, I felt numb.
Later, our contact became more sporadic but we still had occasion to work together every once in a while.
He has much in common with the teacher of writing, as well - a certain presumptuousness that is inevitably tempered with a dose of humiliation every once in a while.
Old men, young men, college youths, some well dressed, some dirty and ragged; delivery men hailed him from their wagons and motormen clanged their bells at him as they went by; once in a while a lady [there were "ladies" in those days] would tell their coachman to stop as they drove past and would bow and speak to him. Some Memories of Daddy – Jack London
He would push or slap her once in a while.
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. Edward Abbey
Once in a while, the funnel of air drops from the sky - it can be as narrow as a few metres across or as wide as two kilometres.
Every once in a while acyclovir is given to employees avert the infection from coming back. Enter the Bibliomancer: A new career for the CodePoet
My guess is Mike just sits and laughs when he sees you posting taking the time to reply every once in a while just for the lulz.
‘Once in a while I allow myself a Philly cheesesteak, which they call French dip down here,’ he says.
We're growing up and we smoke some blow once in a while to get happy.
Susie and Sara - both brunet and share a weird love hate relationship to Calvin and Jeremy not saying it all adds up 100% but every once in a while when i read Zits i think .... i bet this is Calvin 10 years later. steven Calvin and Susie get it on, displeasing stuffed tigers everywhere | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
This really ticked off Lisa and she turned around without saying anything else except for a groan or a whine or a sigh every once in a while.
Mama is usually very meek and mild, but every once in a while, her true strength surfaces.
Why not try and be nice about it once in a while? STUART: A Life Backwards
Every once in a while, particularly when I take out clothes that I haven't worn since our move, I find a cat whisker or a dog hair.
Rain poured down and every once in a while lightning streaked through the sky.
Every once in a while I philosophize — yet what kind of philosopher am I anyway? November « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
Perhaps now that the election is over and things are slightly calmer around here, we can take questions from readers a little more often - or even do a "mailbag" column once in a while. NYT > Home Page
Every once in a while, usually for pickup notes, the tempo is either faster or slower than the rest of the piece.
As I often point out, I appreciate how difficult it is to choose words carefully in the hurly-burly of live commentary, but I feel Clive would give himself more chance if he were to pause for breath once in a while. Feeling the tug and pull of nonstop talk | Martin Kelner
The fact that his wife worked on the fields meant that Bandia could absent himself every once in a while to conduct his commercial activities.
The only difference between a Democrat coming down south and a hemorrhoid is at least the hemorrhoid will go back up once in a while. xrocketeer DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible'
I really don't know why, but I every once in a while I got hold of information I could use to blackmail people.
Whereas Ana was a very beautiful girl in her own right, Sophia often overshadowed her, which got on the younger girl's nerves every once in a while, but she had learned not to show it.
It's perfectly ok with me if Jonathan Yardley has philistine tastes in fiction, but one would swear that he has been given prominence in the Washington Post for all these years because he represents the similar philistine tastes of most of those who write for and edit American newspapers, and can be counted on to give those artsy-fartsy novelists (the "literati" more generally) a good smack in the face every once in a while. Book Reviewing
Once in a while, I will have to make a speech to the nation.
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
Every once in a while a building comes along that fulfills your faith that architecture can be a noble profession, not just a parade of street-walking 'starchitects' who strut their signature styles around the globe.
March 4th, 2010 at 12: 51 am even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while. somehow, someway, broder finally writes something of merit. Matthew Yglesias » Credit Where Due
‘When I got to Canberra and started flying choppers, I played but it was a once in a while,’ he says.
Obviously, if you are on the radio everyday, saying things like, "The Tutsis are cockroaches and should be attacked with machetes and killed by the thousands, immediately," it's a lot less murky than that time you used a gunsight-looking thing on a poster or talked about the tree of liberty needing the blood of patriots every once in a while. TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
He likes to put the needle in a little bit once in a while. Times, Sunday Times
Saxon, on the contrary, delighted in the logomachy, though little enough she understood of it, following mainly by feeling, and once in a while catching a high light. CHAPTER IX
But once in a while one comes along that drills itself so far into your head you cannot forget it. The Sun
Once in a while, the funnel of air drops from the sky - it can be as narrow as a few metres across or as wide as two kilometres.
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
So you'll get one loud slurper every once in a while, better than feeling like an earthquake is hitting with people eating popcorn. Movie Popcorn is As Bad For You As Ever… Well, Mostly | /Film
Once in a while we eat out.
He likes to put the needle in a little bit once in a while. Times, Sunday Times
If you want others to be game, you've got to also be game yourself once in a while.
Once in a while, try to alternate the way you fold your garments in order to prevent creases from setting in permanently.
I'm polite, educated, have good table manners and a stash of preppy clothes for work purposes, and once in a while, I even tell a clean joke.
I talk to him every once in a while, and I went to his birthday party, but we never talk like we used to.
But they're not puritans, and like to let their hair down once in a while.
The Big Corrections come around every once in a while and remind us how much "in charge" we really are, butwe soon forget them. Archive 2006-09-01
The Avn Bn. did not provide assistance to any villages, other than dropping off supplies once in a while or taking in medical assistance. Charles Allen Lewis aka Chuck
One pump of the atomiser transports wearers from dewy English gardens to Sicilian lemon orchards, and every once in a while, a scent such as Feuilles de Tabac entices them to linger in a smoky brasserie off Saint-Germain. Vanity Mirror: Society and Style
Mr. Sher promised a "dreamlike" production, and once in a while, generically "surreal" things happen. The Real Offenbach
I'm fortunate not to have a lot coming up on the chin, but once in a while you get a few, and they have to be tweezed out.
Most of the time Carson's wider view was blocked by the tors and rock faces, though every once in a while a sight of the valleys below him and the summits above him would peek through.
Once in a while, anodyne comment emerges in the mainstream about the ‘dumbing down’ of news.
Once in a while, later in the evening, when alcohol seems to have worked some reanimation charm, some of the zombies will start to emulate human beings, leaving only the most inanimate standing vacantly in front of the band. Modern Bands and Zombies « Colleen Anderson
Do you stay away from alcohol or allow yourself to indulge once in a while?
Every once in a while there are certain companies that capture the minds of easy influenceable teens and create a kind of faction following.
Every once in a while a player emerges who has an unquantifiable aura. Times, Sunday Times
Once in a while, a heart-rending cry would pierce the buzz of conversation.
I like to give people lots of independence and just check on them every once in a while.
Everyone has seen the sitcoms where the older brother gives the younger brother a friendly punch in the arm once in a while, or a "noogie" here and there. Celebrating the Pity Of Brotherly Love
Once in a while a singer new to Glyndebourne gets the house tingling. Times, Sunday Times
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. Edward Abbey
And that was ok too, because, who didn't, every once in a while, nick themselves shaving?
Every once in a while there is a page of text with extremely conversational, seemingly unedited commentary.
Once in a while, I get mail which makes me feel that the world is a very beautiful place full of smart intellectual beings.
We know the megastar is a private person, but we'd like to see his handsome face just once in a while! X17 Online
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
Once in a while, the funnel of air drops from the sky - it can be as narrow as a few metres across or as wide as two kilometres.
But every once in a while, an elected representative elevates himself above “teh stoopid” and cravenness that makes our eyes glaze over, and really fights the good fight in a way that leads his waffling brethren to do the right damn thing. Archive 2008-01-01
Once in a while a pair of mounted men jog-trotted slowly here and there among them. The Killer
We need time to indulge in the things that we like doing purely for our own gratification once in a while to remind us that we, too, exist and need to quench certain desires.
But what you do get, once in a while, are ‘R’ rated films that show up unrated, or other similarly censored films in uncut form.
I wasn't thinking you meant aught by it, lad, and I'd not give two coppers for a youngster as didn't want to see his elders brought down a peg or two once in a while.
Once in a while, think about why you are cooking, serving and eating together as a family.
Except that once in a while she has too much to drink, and embarrasses him in public.
`Once in a while, Louis produces a masterwork ," he began care-fully. COMPULSION
Once in a while you see sadness, but people try to hide that; it's either unprofessional or unfair to show it. FROM THE TEETH OF ANGELS

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