How to Use at one time in a Sentence
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Never had that on the ice at one time.
—Michael Russo, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
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Yeah—at one time in my life his work was very close to my heart.
—Corey Seymour, Vogue, 20 June 2024
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Don’t harvest more than a third of the plant at one time.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2026
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Nobody should have to bury a child, much less four at one time.
—Charmaine Patterson, People.com, 26 July 2025
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That is, how many razor blades a laser beam could cut through at one time.
—New Atlas, 17 Jan. 2026
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So many kids and so many of the grandkids, all in one place, at one time.
—Alex Gonzalez, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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Was that really a thing at one time?
—Judith Martin, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2025
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The project was at one time expected to open next year.
—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2025
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My mother held down three jobs at one time to support us.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2025
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At most, children might get five or six vaccines at one time.
—ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
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Avoid cutting more than ⅓ off your plant at one time to avoid stressing the plant.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2026
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When mowing the grass, never cut more than one-third of the grass blade at one time.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2025
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The odds of a combination of risks at one time may be very low.
—Ryan Weissmueller, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
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It was just announced yesterday to the field all at one time.
—Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
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So many of these kids come from poverty and may have been happy with chump change at one time.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
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But at one time, the South was just considered the third coast.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2024
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Taking too much at one time can disrupt sleep rather than improve it.
—Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 19 Nov. 2025
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How many people could go up against me and Meek Mill at one time?
—Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2023
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Countries feared our exports at one time and put high tariffs on our goods.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2024
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Hendry at one time patrolled the streets as a patrolman.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2026
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My wife was, at one time, a very beautiful woman.
—Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
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That’s the hardest thing with having so many great football teams at one time.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2025
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And the brand shared that the stand mixer is large enough to mix up to five dozen cookies at one time.
—Toni Sutton, People.com, 25 Jan. 2025
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Whether that means at one time or over time in temporary housing has not been made clear.
—Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
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The space station also has enough docks for up to eight spacecraft to be docked at one time.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
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And all of them, at one time or another, question whether they’re cut out for this job.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
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But keep in mind, females can have up to 100 babies at one time.
—Sierra Leone Starks, Parents, 10 Feb. 2026
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This is the byproduct of playing so many kids and journeymen at one time.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2025
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Most people have thrown a flying discs at one time or another.
—Nate Heinold, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
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Even your favorite author was a debut writer at one time.
—Ashlee Conour, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
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