How to Use twice in a Sentence
twice
adverb
- The new one costs about twice as much.
- I've been there at least twice.
- He could earn twice his present salary at the new job.
- He must be twice her age.
- He has rehearsals twice a month.
- I only wore it twice.
- He twice lost to younger opponents.
- The population is twice that of Canada.
- We visited them twice in 10 years.
- The dictionary has been twice updated since 1993.
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Still, the Tigers scored more than 80 points just twice in those nine games.
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Tom Green | [email protected],
al,
4 Jan. 2023
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This is a 16-year-old in the Midwest who had been shot twice.
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CBS News,
23 Apr. 2023
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During the fight, the teen was shot twice in the chest and the older man was hit once in the elbow.
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Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
21 June 2024
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Packard drove in three runs and scored a run, while Rivas scored twice.
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Paul Boyd,
Arkansas Online,
17 Sep. 2023
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But the pro season crams in almost twice as many games.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Jan. 2024
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So much more to her than her appearance and played the game (twice) with grit.
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Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
4 Sep. 2024
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Ginn, who has coached Glenville for 25 years, brought his teams twice before to this stage.
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Matt Goul,
cleveland,
3 Dec. 2022
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But corporate greed, in my case, is a snake that bites twice.
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Mahyad Tousi,
The Hollywood Reporter,
28 Sep. 2023
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Tokyo was the first host city to host the Summer Olympics twice; and 2021 was the first time the Olympic Games were held on an odd-numbered year.
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Paris Wilson,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Apr. 2024
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Indeed, Stone served in the ’60s and was twice wounded in action.
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Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
18 May 2024
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Many of them meet twice a week to play for two hours as the rat-tat-tat of gunfire echoes across Port-au-Prince.
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Evens Sanon and Dánica Coto,
The Christian Science Monitor,
19 Oct. 2023
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Tomarchio led with five, and Collins and Trevor Sousa each scored twice with two assists.
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Anthony Maluso,
Baltimore Sun,
14 May 2023
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Case in point: Black men are around twice as likely to die of prostate cancer than white men.
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Erin Prater,
Fortune,
4 Feb. 2023
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And these days, a trip to and from Logan Airport can take twice as long as usual.
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Aruni Soni,
BostonGlobe.com,
18 July 2023
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Soon, Rozman cracked the bot’s code — Martin seemed to have a blind spot for pawns — and beat him, twice, laughing the whole time.
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Reid Forgrave,
New York Times,
8 Dec. 2023
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Willy Flores carried six times for 67 yards and scored twice.
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Don Norcross,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Oct. 2023
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Use it twice a week for the first two weeks, every other night for the next two weeks, and then every night.
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Morgan Sullivan,
ELLE,
18 July 2023
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The helicopter returned to the hut twice to fly out members of the rescue team, the statement said.
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Nick Stoico,
BostonGlobe.com,
12 Aug. 2023
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Dye & Durham delayed the special meeting twice to December.
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Rohan Goswami,
CNBC,
4 Nov. 2024
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Throughout his career, Borrego said he's only worked with two patients who have been bitten by a shark twice — Taschman being the second.
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USA TODAY,
31 Oct. 2024
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