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Example sentences for "always been"

  • Not something new and wildly exciting, but something old that I had known always and that had always been with me.

  • Considering the confinement to the house that her life had always been, this was such a declaration of independence as those walls had never encountered before.

  • Live and let live,' 'as always been my motter, and a very good one too.

  • What I mean to say is that it's always been there.

  • You know what that cabin has always been: dark and dirty and not a comfortable chair to sit down in, or a book or magazine or anything?

  • I believe you're my friend, just the way you've always been.

  • No, I ain't noticed nothing wrong with him that ain't always been wrong.

  • I fear I've always been dull at these camp-meeting metaphors.

  • Serves her right, I say, for the sort of mother she's always been, doing her best to educate all the decent feeling out of Cally, and then trying to break her when she was doing the best thing she ever did in her life.

  • It's just as if it's always been, and every minute it seems fresh.

  • You've always been hard on me, and you don't understand.

  • And as you've always been so fond of her--!

  • I've always been so fond of you, Rachael," Florence went on.

  • You've always been so beautiful, and so much admired.

  • Well, in three days it seemed as if I'd always been there.

  • He had, always been an absurdity; posturing, phrase-making, repellant.

  • It's always been a hobby of mine, hunting around in queer places for something I can give to my Art.

  • It's always been a hobby of mine--this working with the earth.

  • I've always been so--afraid, until to-day!

  • I've always been a pipe-smoker, pure and simple, but I ought to remembered for kind of an occasion like this.

  • I've always been curious to know what would happen when he found out the kind of thing Eldon Parr is doing every day in his life, making people stand and deliver in the interest of what he would call National Prosperity.

  • And yet it cannot be said that he sought solace in religion, so apparently steeped in it had he always been.

  • Under all his incalculableness there had always been a hard foundation of reliability: it seemed to be a matter of choice with him whether he let one feel that solid bottom or not.

  • That's why she's always been so nasty to me.

  • Of course I've always been keen on machinery.

  • But my only fear and dread is that you've always been accustomed to think of me as so much older than you are.

  • You've always been up against the employer and you've never lost a chance to poison the minds of the employed.

  • Bridport won't be Bridport without you, and you've always been a true and valued friend to me, and such a helpful and sensible creature that I shall only know in the next world all I owe you.

  • I've never, furthermore, had every year anything to eat with you; but you've always been in the way of sending me things.

  • But you've always been prone to anger, and now, as a matter of course your spleen is larger than ever.

  • Don't cry; be the brave little trick you've always been.

  • I wouldn't talk to just any stray person this away, Alf, but me and you was boys together, and you've always been my friend.

  • It's always been my opinion that everybody spoke American while the tower of Babel was building, and that the Lord let the good people keep right on speaking it.

  • It's always been my policy to give a little extra courtesy and consideration to the men who hold the places that don't draw the extra good salaries.

  • I've always been ready to stake my last dollar that you'd never do that.

  • But he's always been keener on his lordship's company than I've thought advisable.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "always been" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always accompanied; always been; always best; always carried; always provided; always ready; always remember; always represented; always right; always seemed; always seems; always the; always think; always thinking; always told; always used; always well; always will; call them; just one; light buff; ordinary language; that great; things indifferent; vital principle; walk before