Uncle Jonas died last night, and I haven't been able to get sorry.
She didn't look like a tramp woman, but like one who had once been able to take proper care of herself, and she was still young.
Claude returned the slip of paper to Victor as they left the dining-room after supper, telling him he hadn't been able to get any.
He was so angry with Gladys that he hadn't been able to bid her good-night.
During a stay of four months she has not yet been able to gain admittance into the Temple, to visit or see her son, who perhaps expired in tortures, or died brokenhearted before she came here.
Our intriguers may have deluded his understanding, but our traitors would never have been able to seduce or shake his fidelity.
Thus all these deceptive chimeras after which she had run, love, passion, poetry, were already hers; she had held them in her hands and she had not been able to perceive it.
Three doctors have been in consultation there for the past hour, and I haven't been able to hear a word of what they said.
He accused a poor devil as innocent as you or I, who might have been condemned to death if he hadn't been able to tell where he was on Wednesday night.
He keeps quiet, because he hasn't been able to get up a plausible story.
But she had loved it, and she had, or thought she had, been able to understand it.
He was certain that she was able to understand something of what he was feeling, that on the night of the storm she would not have been able to understand.
You remember my saying that our thoughts had never been able to separate those twin sisters, and that, in our fancy, whatever Pet was, the other was?
Beautifully kept, it was ugly in itself, and had little but cleanliness and air to set it off; for what embellishment she had ever been able to buy, had gone to her father's room.
I haven't been able to sleep all night," she said, her hands fluttering nervously in her lap.
And we haven't been able to get hold of that motorcyclist," mourned Mollie.
Mollie was crying distractedly when the girls themselves burst through the underbrush, crying despairingly that they had not been ableto find water, that there was not a house anywhere for miles around.
I haven't been able to work any for over two years but my wife makes us a living.
Nobody ain't been able to do nothin' since they passed the stock law.
I ain't been able to git out for the last year or two.
But how had he been able to penetrate during the night into Granite House?
In fact, the canoe probably would not have been able to contain the articles possibly enclosed in the chest, which doubtless was heavy, since two empty barrels were required to buoy it up.
At this point the examination of the banks of the lake was considered finished, and yet the engineer had not been able to discover how and where the waters were discharged.
French homes are rarely open to birds of passage, and visitors leave us with regret that they have not been able to see more than the surface of our civilization or to recognize by experience the note of our inner home life.
From the first lessons they are taught to compose and to reduce to order the musical suggestions which may come to them, and in this wise the school has sometimes been able to recover the songs of the immigrants through their children.
They've been able to lay the butter so thick on every exquisite mouthful.
I like to fancy that Stroud himself would have given it to me, if he'd been able to say what he thought that day.
There are one or two places where men may have been able to keep their heads above water if it has not filled the drift, and that is what I am going to see," said Keith, preparing to descend.
As for Keith, he found himself suddenly the object of universal attention, and he might, had he been able to distribute himself, have slept in half the shacks in the camp.
Keith had long been trying to persuade his father to accompany him to New York on some of his visits; but the old gentleman had never been able to make up his mind to do so.
But again they were just the right odds and ends, the odds and ends that every one in that neighbourhood wanted and had never been able to obtain under one roof.
Not since I can remember has he been able to take a personal interest in the store, except from a distance.
They talked about Miss Child, and Petro related his adventure at the Hands, which he had not, until the luncheon hour, been able to describe in detail.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "been able" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
