How to Use onetime in a Sentence

onetime

1 of 2 adjective

• The onetime soccer star traded in her cleats for a pair of heels at age of 15.
  — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2023
• Hims is an everyday treatment, not a onetime cure.
  — Rebecca Strong, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026
• The onetime life of the party has gone dark, and her husband cannot cope with her isolation and anger.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 3 Feb. 2026
• Allen and Keaton were onetime romantic partners and stayed friends in the years after.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2025
• Wanger knows something about that, being the mother of a teenage daughter and two onetime teens who are now in college.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
• Clements was also often there as the onetime boyfriend of Gatlin’s granddaughter.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
• The Groffies are not onetime ticket buyers — some go eight, 16, even 20 times.
  — Alexandra Starr, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026
• Sweetgreen, the onetime salad giant, has struggled.
  — Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 17 Apr. 2026
• The onetime public school teacher is a fervent believer in education as the key to change.
  — Lisa Fung, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• Neuhardt was a onetime Las Vegas dancer and nightclub performer whom Cole described as the love of his life.
  — oregonlive, 24 Mar. 2023
• But now the onetime insurgent sits atop a sprawling establishment.
  — Jesse Bedayn, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
• That’s where Ed, a onetime costume designer, held his gatherings.
  — Nick Dothée, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
• Ochoa, a onetime Chronicle Bar Star, has been a fixture of the city’s craft cocktail scene for years.
  — Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2026
• Her onetime partner, Dakota Mortensen, recorded the video of the attack on his cellphone.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2026
• In that event, the only survivor benefit that could be paid is the onetime death benefit of $255.
  — Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 7 May 2023
• In an awards cycle where acceptance speeches bounced from sincere to silly to crass, these onetime co-stars stayed the course with wet, wet gratitude.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
• Gimlin, his neighbor and onetime friend — and perhaps the doc’s most charismatic and inscrutable subject — stopped speaking to him.
  — Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 12 Mar. 2026
• The onetime Oscar nominee graced the red carpet in a halter-neck dress covered in copper sequins and fringe.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 14 Mar. 2023
• The onetime military lodging there is available to rent, and Hoeft lives in the house once used by a commanding general.
  — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 21 Nov. 2023
• The building in turn stands on the onetime location of a mansion that reports said dated back to the late 19th century.
  — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
• Carroll is a journalist and a onetime advice columnist for Elle magazine.
  — Ben Protess, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• The onetime iCarly star now thinks of herself predominantly as a writer and is working on a new novel.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
• Like the onetime president, Kennedy's initials are JFK.
  — Dan Raby, CBS News, 20 May 2026
• The building’s infrastructure also is said to need attention which, as is the case with all buildings, would not be a onetime endeavor.
  — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 21 Nov. 2025
• His onetime rival Jay-Z couldn’t touch down in Brooklyn’s Marcy Projects like that.
  — Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2025
• The series was created by Bill Bell, a onetime navy man who because a TV legend.
  — Shinan Govani, Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2023
• While the fate of the defiant mutineer and his fighters remain uncertain, there are signs that his hold over onetime backers may have been weakened by the saga.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 28 June 2023
• His father was a real estate agent, and his mother was a onetime legal secretary at Time-Life who raised six children.
  — Phil Davison, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• The spat is not the first time Khanna has run into headwinds with his onetime allies in Silicon Valley.
  — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 22 June 2026
• The government’s deal with that onetime industry leader makes the feds one of the company’s biggest shareholders.
  — David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025

onetime

2 of 2 adverb

• Indeed, the increase in crowds has pretty much wiped out the onetime less busy spring and fall seasons.
  — Jay Jones, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2019
• But for the actress, fashion is more about the overall beauty and craftsmanship of the piece than just a onetime hit.
  — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 7 Jan. 2019
• The rape charge involves a woman who has not come forward publicly; the other is a onetime aspiring actress who was among his first accusers.
  — Colleen Long, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2018
• The younger of the women, Isabella Pollok—Talia’s onetime best friend—is presented as a true believer.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
• McGrory, a longtime columnist and onetime metro editor, was named to the top post in December 2012.
  — Mark Arsenault, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018
• It was named after onetime ownerJohn Dwight, the founder of the company that created Arm & Hammer baking soda.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2019
• San Francisco neighborhoods like SoMa or streets like Polk, onetime gay linchpins in a city synonymous with sexuality, are more geared toward the influx of tech dollars.
  — Brock Keeling, Curbed, 26 June 2019
• Its downtown Main Street is a modern mash-up — a onetime all-American hub whose great-grandfather storefronts with their big old-fashioned display windows peer warily at the encroaching, hip new spaces spawning countercultures.
  — Andre Vergara, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
• The group includes former star women’s basketball player Andrea Constand, as well as onetime aspiring actresses, a bartender, a schoolteacher, and a reality TV staple.
  — Maria Panaritis, Philly.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• In a demonstration of the sometimes fleeting nature of populist power and political alliances, Ecuadoreans overwhelmingly voted Sunday to limit presidents to two terms, ending the chances of a return to office by the onetime popular Rafael Correa.
  — Chris Kraul, latimes.com, 5 Feb. 2018