How to Use once in a while in a Sentence

once in a while

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• But once in a while, as in Boyle Heights, things go blooey big time.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
• Sure, his characters could catch a break once in a while, but where’s the fun in that?
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026
• Yeah, this sort of thing happens once in a while to certain actors.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 31 July 2026
• Even once in a while, from under the ocean floor, hot magma erupts through the gaps and then cools down to form new planetary crust.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 9 July 2026
• Universal constants arise often in math problems, and even the square root of log(N) rears its head once in a while.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026
• Islands are decoupled from each other, and synchronizing knowledge between them happens once in a while.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2026
• Wake up from your woke world and read the Daily News once in a while so you can be informed of that 3-year-old on the playground who had their brains blown out, or that subway rider who was pushed onto the rails.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 20 July 2026
• The [Team sometimes called the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball] is the SAVANNAH BANANAS, who compete in the Banana Ball Championship League to enormous audiences and even lose once in a while.
  — Caitlin Lovinger, New York Times, 11 July 2026