all at once


All at the same time, as in We can't get inside all at once, so please wait your turn. [Late 1300s]

Words Nearby all at once

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How to use all at once in a sentence

  • Fryberg left behind a dense record all-at-once ordinary and disturbing, that leaves more questions than answers.

  • Then the flagship hauled home every rope by the silent ‘all-at-once’ action of one hundred men.

    An Orkney Maid | Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
  • And Joan, somehow or other, was aware of this, for she saw things all-at-once and all-over.

    The Promise of Air | Algernon Blackwood
  • The story of the nursing situation conveys the "all-at-once" as well as the unfolding.

    Nursing as Caring | Anne Boykin
  • For my part, I hardly knew whether to sing or say what I had to reply to these all-at-once attacks upon me!

    Clarissa, Volume 7 | Samuel Richardson
  • That's what she means by saying she's an all-at-once and an all-over person.

    The Promise of Air | Algernon Blackwood