The light and air that had once characterized these rooms seemed permanently gone.

But what once characterized their judgments was a split between generations.

It was a short, hand dug channel cut across one of the many oxbows that once characterized the river in the 18th and 19th century.

The exclusivity that once characterized the most talked about and desirable parties has long been for sale.

The village, which was once characterized mainly by agriculture, has changed its outlook considerably over the last few decades.

Neither courts nor students or parents today will accept the intrusive control over personal morality that once characterized college life.

But Donchez had once characterized him as a snake.

Tyson spent with the type of aggressiveness that once characterized his early round knockouts.

Oberstaufenbach was once characterized by agriculture, but has undergone a shift to a residential community.

It focuses on the canals and the windmills that once characterised the area.