TWICE in a Sentence

Learn TWICE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

277 example sentences for TWICE, such as:

1. Once bit, twice shy.
2. Once a man and twice a child.
3. He lives twice who lives well.
4. Hear twice before you speak once.
5. A work ill done must be twice done.

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 Meanings and Examples of TWICE
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twice
 ad.  to double the degree
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I have a respect for you, but if you were alone in this business I'd think twice before I put my head into such a hornet's nest.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
2  Finally he decided to be content with the first four letters, and used to write them out once or twice every day to refresh his memory.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
3  To rebuild the windmill, with walls twice as thick as before, and to finish it by the appointed date, together with the regular work of the farm, was a tremendous labour.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
4  Moreover, the walls were twice as thick as before.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
5  The pigs had sent out a large bottle of pink medicine which they had found in the medicine chest in the bathroom, and Clover administered it to Boxer twice a day after meals.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
6  She tapped twice very distinctly on a door.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
7  Well, sir, every day, ay, and twice and thrice in the same day, there have been orders and complaints, and I have been sent flying to all the wholesale chemists in town.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
8  He inherited a fair fortune from his uncle, but owed it all before he came into it, and spent it twice over immediately afterwards.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
9  After he had been summoned twice by sound of trumpet, and proclamation of the heralds, it became necessary to name another to receive the honours which had been assigned to him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  They were compelled to make several long halts, and once or twice to return on their road to resume the direction which they wished to pursue.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
11  No longer a serf, but a freeman and a landholder, Gurth sprung upon his feet, and twice bounded aloft to almost his own height from the ground.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
12  He crossed himself twice, as doubting whence arose the unwonted softening of a heart, which on such occasions used to resemble in hardness the steel of his sword.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  Because I have twice or thrice noticed the glance of a motion from amongst the green leaves.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
14  It's the living together from day to day, not the sleeping together once or twice.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
15  In vain was her "Pray, sir, don't; pray, Mr. Crawford," repeated twice over; and in vain did she try to move away.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence: (67 in 5 pages)
16  Letters were delivered twice a week only.
17  Millions follow this hospital drama twice a week.
18  He lives twice who lives well.
19  They that reckon without their host are to reckon twice.
20  A work ill done must be twice done.
21  If things were to be done twice all would be wise.
22  Hear twice before you speak once.
23  Once bit, twice shy.
24  The car sputtered once or twice and then stopped.
25  Once a man and twice a child.
26  You can't make the same mistake twice.
27  The doctor told him to bathe his eyes twice a day.
28  He miskicked the ball twice at the edge of the penalty box.
29  He that deceives me once, shame fall him, if he deceives me twice, shame fall me.
30  It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.