once in a while

Example Sentences

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All we can do is hope to find someone we like, who makes us laugh and helps us feel, even just once in a while, that there’s magic in the world.

From Los Angeles Times

You think they’d fall overboard and get clean once in a while.”

From Los Angeles Times

Yet what makes this potentially the most important new opera of the year is not Huang’s agreeably efficient — and once in a while inspired — score, which incorporates Western and traditional music.

From Los Angeles Times

“We expect things like this to occur once in a while due to the volume of tests.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“I watched him in action and learned from him, and he handed me books once in a while,” Mayer says.

From The Wall Street Journal