How to Use once and for all in a Sentence

once and for all

phrase
  • Ready to solve your plantar fasciitis woes, once and for all?
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 22 July 2026
  • Both parties must eradicate the socialist virus once and for all.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Confront it once and for all, and make the practical adjustments.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Think of this as your comprehensive guide for how to organize your kitchen cabinets once and for all.
    — Kelsey Mulvey, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Alia Shawkat is setting the record straight about those Brad Pitt dating rumors once and for all.
    — Sameen Chaudhry, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Demolition is required to address flare ups and extinguish the fire once and for all.
    — City News Service, Daily News, 4 July 2026
  • From choosing different mulch to planting ground covers, read on to learn how to stop mulch from washing out of your flower beds once and for all.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 10 July 2026
  • Celebrities started tweeting, revealing once and for all that many of them were deeply average humans.
    — Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 14 July 2026
  • Outdoor Storage Organizers Get your deck into tip top shape once and for all.
    — Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2025
  • From the wilderness beauty to the diverse cuisine to the chance to hunt Sasquatch down once and for all, the country has something for everyone.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 30 July 2026
  • Gu-cheon must travel to the Realm of the Gwi in order to vanquish the ak-gwi that the Crown Prince has become once and for all.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 17 July 2026
  • This boot’s shaft circumference is a godsend for women with wider-than-average calves, doing away with that constricting feeling once and for all.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 20 July 2026
  • The new-to-Target pick from the retailer’s in-house brand A New Day has the potential to end your work-dressing woes once and for all.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • And maybe most surprisingly, good at showing us, once and for all, the profound importance of intention behind our aesthetic choices.
    — Valerie Monroe, Allure, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Working within such a coalition, activists can now feel more emboldened to do the truly necessary work of helping liberate Palestine once and for all.
    — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
  • Well, Nielsen, the company mostly known for measuring television ratings, attempted to answer this question once and for all.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Until the Galileo spacecraft photographed Ida and Dactyl, astronomers suspected some asteroids could have their own moons, but Galileo proved it once and for all.
    — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Read on to find the 12 best petite deals worth snagging from brands like Hanes, Lee, and Gap, and bid farewell to dragging hemlines and ill-fitting clothing once and for all.
    — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The world's greatest criminal mastermind has not, however, so Lex Luthor comes out of retirement to defeat the Man of Steel once and for all.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 28 June 2026
  • King’s character discovers dark family secrets that plunge the Owens family into a crisis, and the women must confront the dark curse that threatens to unravel them once and for all.
    — Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Between heat stress, environmental conditions, and common lawn care mistakes, several factors could be causing your grass to turn brown, and identifying the right one is key to fixing the problem once and for all.
    — The Spruce, 25 June 2026
  • Gruinard’s contamination was now headline news, and just a few years later, the government sent a major taskforce to the Highlands to tackle the islands’ unwelcome visitors once and for all.
    — Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The first of several films, the story primarily focuses on Marnie, the eldest daughter, who must help her grandmother fight evil threatening to destroy Halloweentown once and for all.
    — Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The inability of conservatives to break the opposition once and for all persuaded the establishment to try to cut deals with Thaksin’s Pheu Thai Party instead.
    — Duncan McCargo, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2026
  • In an unforgettable main event, Roman Reigns beat Seth Rollins once and for all in a Shield tribute match that had US Bank Stadium in shambles in the best of ways.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • The earliest of the Roman Romance novels dates from the first century CE, just as the first emperor Augustus ended the Republic once and for all and gathered the whole Roman empire into his own grubby little hands.
    — Literary Hub, 30 June 2026

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