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.
• This is a 16-year-old in the Midwest who had been shot twice.
  — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2023
• Packard drove in three runs and scored a run, while Rivas scored twice.
  — Paul Boyd, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2023
• But the pro season crams in almost twice as many games.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
• But corporate greed, in my case, is a snake that bites twice.
  — Mahyad Tousi, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Sep. 2023
• Many of them meet twice a week to play for two hours as the rat-tat-tat of gunfire echoes across Port-au-Prince.
  — Evens Sanon and Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023
• Tomarchio led with five, and Collins and Trevor Sousa each scored twice with two assists.
  — Anthony Maluso, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2023
• And these days, a trip to and from Logan Airport can take twice as long as usual.
  — Aruni Soni, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
• Soon, Rozman cracked the bot’s code — Martin seemed to have a blind spot for pawns — and beat him, twice, laughing the whole time.
  — Reid Forgrave, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• Willy Flores carried six times for 67 yards and scored twice.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
• Use it twice a week for the first two weeks, every other night for the next two weeks, and then every night.
  — Morgan Sullivan, ELLE, 18 July 2023
• The helicopter returned to the hut twice to fly out members of the rescue team, the statement said.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
• The Lakers and the Nuggets met four times during the regular season and each club won twice.
  — John Scheibe, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• Hank Hansen had 107 yards total offense and scored twice.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2023
• Swift initiated the club and has earned the honor four times, while Drake has done so twice.
  — Gary Trust, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2023
• Our job would be half as hard and twice as joyful if all our sources were Texas bee boosters.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• To make: Trace the shape of a wooden Christmas tree ornament on a scrap of fabric twice.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 23 Apr. 2023
• That happened twice on Utah’s third scoring drive alone.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
• Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince made Grammy hip-hop history twice.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2023
• Trump has already been rejected by the voters once and impeached by the House twice.
  — The Editors, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023
• The safe sleeping site has been evacuated twice in the last five months because of rain.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024