Once-in-a-lifetime
"Once-in-a-lifetime" in a Sentence (12 examples)
A home is a once-in-a-lifetime purchase so you don't want to make any snap decisions.
About the wedding ... It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be the main attraction, so instead of doing it on a shoestring, why not pull out all the stops and make a great show of it?
He wasn't about to pass up that once-in-a-lifetime chance.
He resolved to embark on a once-in-a-lifetime enterprise.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for Jamal.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance.
I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.
We can't pass up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
This was my once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel the world
With Trump in office, they see what one Gulf official called a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to achieve his country’s objectives.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.