How to Use once in a lifetime in a Sentence
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This is the kind of thing that happens once in a lifetime.
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Jim Farber,
Vulture,
6 Feb. 2024
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And to be sharing the stage with Lang Lang will be a dream come true; a once in a lifetime performance.
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Adrianna Freedman,
Good Housekeeping,
8 May 2023
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And to be sharing the stage with Lang Lang will be a dream come true; a once in a lifetime performance.
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Adrianna Freedman,
Good Housekeeping,
8 May 2023
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So the first trip is that wish trip, and that's just a once in a lifetime experience that's week long.
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Taylor Wilson,
USA TODAY,
15 Jan. 2024
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These kinds of things might happen to mortal programs once in a lifetime, if that.
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Bryce Miller,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Apr. 2023
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Henry is a high school kid who believes true love only comes once in a lifetime.
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Kori Williams,
Seventeen,
20 Jan. 2023
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This is resulting in more people booking these ‘once in a lifetime’ trips.
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Judy Koutsky,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2024
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Sip mocktails and learn about this once in a lifetime event, in partnership with The Cincinnati Observatory.
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Luann Gibbs,
The Enquirer,
7 Apr. 2024
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As our world warms, extreme weather that used to happen once in a lifetime are becoming more frequent occurrences.
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Jessie Yeung,
CNN,
16 Sep. 2023
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Getting to dive deep into the emotion behind it and having the honor of portraying that through music is a once in a lifetime experience.
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Lily Moayeri,
Variety,
6 Mar. 2023
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Just like life cycles, these stages are logical and everyone goes through them, typically about once in a lifetime.
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Ray Dalio,
TIME,
25 June 2024
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People are describing the whole night of migration as part of a once in a lifetime thing … (but) this still is an unacceptable intrusion by humans and their architecture.
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Todd Richmond,
Fortune,
7 Oct. 2023
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But also very excited first this once in a lifetime opportunity.
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Lawrence Yee,
Peoplemag,
22 May 2024
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So incredibly grateful for this once in a lifetime experience!
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Alexandra Schonfeld,
Peoplemag,
22 June 2023
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As Cathy McCahill noted, this really is a once in a lifetime opportunity.
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Hartford Courant,
4 Feb. 2023
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However, Nina, who is currently on a sabbatical from her job as a project manager, stresses that such road trips are expensive, particularly when traveling as a foursome, and this may just have to be a once in a lifetime adventure for her family.
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Tamara Hardingham-Gill,
CNN,
8 Feb. 2023
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On social media, particularly youtube, prominent influencers promoted the settlement as a once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire valuable land in Ghana, a country marketed as a prosperous African nation on the rise.
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Emmanuel Akinwotu,
NPR,
25 Feb. 2024
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