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Once in a while   /wəns ɪn ə waɪl/   Listen
Once in a while

adverb
1.
Now and then or here and there.  Synonyms: at times, from time to time, now and again, now and then, occasionally, on occasion.  "Open areas are only occasionally interrupted by clumps of trees" , "They visit New York on occasion" , "Now and again she would take her favorite book from the shelf and read to us" , "As we drove along, the beautiful scenery now and then attracted his attention"






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"Once in a while" Quotes from Famous Books



... laugh at this. The reputed exaction of his executive chamber was a sore spot to him. "How you robbers, young and old, would like to fleece me," he said. "And if I didn't turn to defensive stone once in a while you'd pull out ...
— An Arkansas Planter • Opie Percival Read

... There are men in coves distant from the railroad who are living on land to which their ancestors drove up their cattle from the low country three or four generations ago. These men are a law unto themselves. They have no opportunities for educating their children, and once in a while you hear of a family that never has ...
— A Tar-Heel Baron • Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton

... "I was in a pretty state! I saw rats running all over the floor and the walls, and you were calling me, and I saw all sorts of horrible things! But I am all right now. Once in a while I have a bad dream, ...
— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola

... observed, dryly, "I know. I get that same feelin' every once in a while. I should rather like to walk a deck ...
— Fair Harbor • Joseph Crosby Lincoln

... to Mary once in a while. I believe," she continued, after a pause, and with a faltering voice and feeling of faintness that she could not account for, "I believe you are in love, Thomas." She had heard that day that Captain Kelson was making furious love to a sea-nymph in B——, the ...
— An Old Sailor's Yarns • Nathaniel Ames


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