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Example sentences for "been known"

  • Since first settlement the location has been known as "New Fort.

  • On his return trip he wrote the name Nawaoga; on old maps it is Canawadage, and has since 1635 been known as the Nowadage or Fort Plain Creek.

  • In local nomenclature the hill has long been known as Snake Hill, from the traditionary abundance of rattle-snakes on it, though few have been seen there in later years.

  • It is certainly so tightly closed that not a drop of the liquid blood within has ever been known to ooze out.

  • Mr. Yorke’s warning was well-timed, for the event proved that Father Rasle would scarcely have been allowed to leave the town without molestation had it been known that he was going.

  • In the hot, moist climate fresh meat will not keep and even salted meat has been known to spoil.

  • How long the Domestic Fowl had been known to the Jews is extremely uncertain, and we have very little to guide us in our search.

  • A bird so conspicuous and so plentiful would certainly have been mentioned in the Law of Moses had it been known to the Israelites; but, in all its minute and detailed provisions, the Law is silent on the subject.

  • Even had it been known to them, and tolerably common, there seems to be no reason why it should have been reckoned among the list of unclean birds.

  • And its tusks are so sharp and powerful that they have been known to rip up the body of a horse at a single stroke.

  • The bucks are very quarrelsome creatures and fight most savagely with one another, while more than once they have been known to attack human beings and to inflict severe wounds before they could be driven away.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "been known" 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:
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