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Example sentences for "been used"

  • It’s likely you’ve been used to a more equal temperature?

  • Syrup Leptinol is prepared from the root of a species of Leptotaenia (a plant belonging to the parsnip family) which grows in Nevada and which has heretofore not been used in medicine.

  • But the Samaritan Vau may have been used, as the Jews did the Chaldaic, both for a vowel and consonant.

  • This short measure has seldom, if ever, been used alone in many successive couplets; but it is often found in stanzas, sometimes without other lengths, but most commonly with them.

  • But the Samaritan Vau may have been used, as the Jews used the Chaldaic, both for a vowel and for a consonant.

  • And I think I should be something of a relief if I was n't like what she's been used to hearing called a gentleman; she'd prefer me on that account.

  • I haven't the sort of turnout you've been used to, but I want you to drive with me.

  • The huge stationary flammenwerfer had recently been used by Major Livens and his company against a strong point in front of Carnoy in the assault of July 1st.

  • Think of its strategic and psychological value had it been used on a scale and front twenty times larger.

  • I've been used to fending for myself in the house--I can learn, I can learn.

  • That was not what she had been used to see in her own father, who was the soberest and best man in that country-side, only a little hot and hasty now and then, if things were not done to the minute.

  • It's a different sort of life to what she's been used to.

  • What low people you must have been used to!

  • I can't live any way but the way I've been used to all my life," wailed she.

  • Mildred and I aren't like the women you've been used to.

  • A canoe of this design was seen by Adney at North Bay, Ontario, in 1925, indicating that the design may have been used in some degree outside the Lake area in later years.

  • Some of the western umiaks were navigated with paddles only; with others, before the appearance of the Russians in the area, both oar and sail may have been used.

  • All eastern kayaks appear to have been propelled with the double-blade paddle, but folklore suggests that the single-blade kayak paddle may have once been used.

  • We are evidently dealing with a writer who introduces many Persian words, with no consciousness that they could not have been used by Babylonian kings.

  • Daniel now speaks in the first person,[487] whereas throughout the historic section of the Book the third person has been used.

  • This cliff house could only have been used as a place of refuge in a time of need.

  • He is believed to be right in a number of his identifications; but still the characters might have been used in a phonetic way.

  • Re merely fashioned the stones which happened to be within reach in the shallows of rivers as they were wanted, throwing them away after they had been used.

  • She says she's been used to playing cards, and you know how we were brought up about cards--to think they were wicked.

  • Before this date a coronet had not (as has been already stated) been used heraldically or in fact by barons, who, both in armorial paintings and in Parliament, had used a plain crimson cap turned up with white fur.

  • I know of no other case where the label has been used by a woman as a mark of difference.

  • The ermine spot has also sometimes been used in British armory as the difference mark granted under a Royal Licence to assume name and arms when it is necessary to indicate the absence of blood relationship.

  • I should say that place hadn't been used, even as a chicken coop, in a long while.

  • However it was, the thing petered out, and the old shack hasn't been used since.

  • It's a couple of files, and they've been used lately.

  • I've been used to going my own way ever since I was short-coated, and it wasn't hankering to be put back into leading-strings that brought me across the ocean.

  • If you'd been used to it all your life, it would be a jar to step down.

  • If I hadn't been used to horses all my days we might have been in kingdom come by this time.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "been used" 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:
    another section; been born; been committed; been decreed; been discovered; been doing; been employed; been engaged; been found; been guilty; been havin; been having; been killed; been looking; been lost; been made; been making; been murdered; been sitting; been talking; been telling; been through; been told; been wondering; critical position; wild animal