once in a while

Idioms  

1. Occasionally, not very often, as in Once in a while I enjoy going fishing. [Mid-1800s] Also see every now and then; from time to time.

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Example Sentences

Every once in a while a poem would appear from the Sweet Singer.

From Literature

You see them every once in a while.

From Literature

The remedy, he points out, is right there in front of us: “Let light come in once in a while.”

From Salon

All we’d been eating were the few fish we’d managed to poach from Cunningham’s stream and once in a while a wild onion or an old potato.

From Literature

“Every once in a while you might have one,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal