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once in a lifetime
happening only once in someone's life
If something is once in a lifetime, it is so unusual or special that it may happen only once in a person's life.
Hear it in real life
Would you go back to Antarctica?
Absolutely, but the first trip felt once in a lifetime.
Swimming with whale sharks was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for me.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: It was an once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Say: It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Use "a" because "once" begins with a consonant sound.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
a once-in-a-lifetime experience; happen once in a lifetime
Your turn: say it out loud
Swimming with whale sharks was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for me.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
once in a lifetime
happening only once in someone's life
“Swimming with whale sharks was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for me.”
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