All at once example sentences

Ah, how well I remember it, that last lesson! All at once the church-clock struck twelve.The bolls, which carry the cotton in them, do not burst open all at once so it takes several days to harvest the cotton.She could not get away from the idea all at once, and that was why she had interceded for the vagabond.Then all at once it hit me— the new school, the fire, my cat— I broke down in tears and cried and cried.All at once he recalled his thoughts about the world and the rattrap.Therefore he did not want to undeceive him all at once.