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Example sentences for "been made"

  • You will be proud, as a New-Yorker, to see that the first attempt to create a taste for painting and sculpture has been made in our city.

  • My cahier orders me to protest against the motion that has been made to you.

  • The legitimate criticisms that might have been made on their work find no place in the diatribes levelled against them; their enemies content themselves merely with calumnies and abuse.

  • And yet, from whomsoever the quotation may have been made, if only it has been given rightly by Hippolytus, it is a strong proof of the antiquity of the Gospel.

  • But when once this assumption has been made, another set of considerations comes in, which also carry with them an important inference.

  • A more upfortunate selection could not have been made; the true-hearted fellow having so much self-confidence, and so little forethought, as to believe the gates impregnable.

  • It added mortification to regret, also, when he remembered that this great loss had been made without a single blow having been struck in defence of his precious family, and his lawful rights.

  • The major thought some disposition had been made, however, by which the inmates might pass and repass by the half that was suspended, making a tolerable defence, when all was closed.

  • Two Statements in the Fourth Book of the Annals that could not have been made by Tacitus.

  • Two statements in the Fourth Book of the Annals that could not have been made by Tacitus.

  • Boats propelled by poles might be guided up the tedious channels, but the use of steam was impossible until improvements had been made.

  • Not even in the heyday of State sovereignty had any serious attempt been made to prevent the movement of unobjectionable free people from one State to another.

  • The argument for the South had been made by the venerable and learned Chief Justice.

  • The argument for the North had been made by Justice Curtis.

  • A few words as to the domestic and personal side of Edison's life, to which many incidental references have already been made in these pages.

  • Eames had asked of his friend, when the suggestion to go and dine with Dobbs Broughton had been made to him.

  • Then Mrs Dobbs Broughton drew herself back, remembering some little attack which had been made on her by Mrs Van Siever when she herself had had the real lord to dine with her.

  • Inasmuch as He, the sovereign Lord of all, hath willed to reveal His sovereignty in the kingdom of names and attributes, each and every created thing hath, through the act of the Divine Will, been made a sign of His glory.

  • Behind the trench system attempts had been made to obviate this drawback by the erection of long lengths of camouflage screens, which were a great feature of this part of the front.

  • Our hopes sank, for we realised how much depended on all the careful preparations which had been made, and that the time left before the attack would be all too short for us to get the damage repaired.

  • Attempts had, therefore, been made by us to sink shafts and take counter measures, but these had proved unavailing owing to the bad nature of the ground.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "been made" 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 able; been away; been committed; been described; been destroyed; been doing; been established; been for; been killed; been murdered; been obliged; been pleased; been possible; been removed; been saying; been sent; been taken; clear liquid; each instant; her dark; international service; just sense; legal marriage; nicely browned; other regiments; the valley