"once" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The carved white fence that encloses the kitchen garden once encircled the dance floor at Carnegie Hall's 90th anniversary party.
- This ditch would have once encircled the site and most likely dates back to the first foundations of the castle.
- Today most of these developments, which once encircled much of the city, are being bulldozed to make room for sleek residential high-rises.
- This bit of ribbon, gentlemen, was cut from the blue, gold-lettered band that once encircled a sailor's hat.
- They once encircled a burial cairn although this is now barely visible.
- Current visitors will need to muster serious imagination to envisage the great walls and gates that once encircled the place.
- A balcony is thought to have once encircled the top.
- Presently, only the ancient wall of the town, which once encircled it, stands partially.
- The fortress walls once encircled the entire city, but modern urban growth has seen the city spread out far beyond the fortress.
- The walls which once encircled the town have almost entirely disappeared, but much of the fortifications on the neighbouring hill to the west still remains.
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