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Example sentences for "been committed"

  • From the footprints in the ground, it was plain that the murder had been committed by two men and a boy between twelve and fourteen years of age.

  • In 1777, after the first Indian outrages had been committed, the neighboring settlers met, and resolved for their better protection to build a stockade fort somewhere near the river.

  • Now he denied all connection with the murder, and said that the crime had been committed by Emerson, saying that Emerson and Turner had quarreled, and that Emerson killed Turner in the fight.

  • He, however, determined to keep his eyes open for developments and to lend whatever aid he could to the apprehension of the criminal or criminals, if indeed the foul play suspected had been committed.

  • The suspected men had disappeared, and it was shown that the crime had been committed nearly a week before it was discovered.

  • An entry was soon forced, and then they discovered that the house had evidently been taken solely for the purpose of effecting the outrage which had recently been committed in it.

  • A minute examination of the house of the deceased then took place; and from the appearances which presented themselves, it became evident that the murder had been committed in the most savage manner.

  • So far your committee has presented to the view of the House the aggressions which have been committed, under the authority of the British Government, on the commerce of the United States.

  • Since that time other injuries have been committed; and it has been justly observed that the burning the Impetueux was an insult to the sovereignty of this nation scarcely less than the affair of the Chesapeake.

  • The head of the shepherd was fixed on Tuam market-house, and the bodies of the others gibbeted within sight of the house where the murders had been committed.

  • Mr. O'Connell spoke against Don Carlos, dwelling at length upon the atrocities which had been committed by his partisans.

  • He had not been in Brighton on the day on which Morris was brought before the police-court magistrates, and the news had reached him in London after his young friend had been committed.

  • This evidence was purely circumstantial, but of a sort which left no reasonable doubt that the murder had been committed by the prisoner in the manner suggested.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "been committed" 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:
    been allowed; been committed; been decreed; been discovered; been doing; been employed; been engaged; been for; been guilty; been havin; been lost; been made; been placed; been pleased; been saying; been shot; been thinkin; been thinking; great adventure; highly polished; letter writer; should strive; social success; trance state; vehicle carrier; when present