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Example sentences for "but has"

  • At once offered me passports to any frontier town, but has no authority to do more.

  • Our mail has just arrived, but has brought me no letter.

  • I have engaged a passage to New-York for your daughter in a pilot-boat that has been out privateering, but has come in here, and is refitting merely to get to New-York.

  • He is a mountebank that is always quacking of the infirm and diseased parts of books, to show his skill, but has nothing at all to do with the sound.

  • He despises the present age as an innovation and slights the future, but has a great value for that which is past and gone, like the madman that fell in love with Cleopatra.

  • He is excellent at voluntary and prelude, but has no skill in composition.

  • Keith for a time operated with antiseptic precautions, but has now (1883) entirely given up the use of the spray, which he believes has especial dangers in abdominal surgery.

  • The word rendered 'walketh' in our text is not merely a synonym for passing through life, but has a very striking meaning.

  • The word that properly describes the act of faith has come to mean the courage which is the consequence of the act, just as our own word confidence properly signifies trust, but has come to mean the boldness which is born of trust.

  • Must it not be, that the innumerable sum of God's mercies has not to have subtracted from it, but has to have added to it, the sum which also at intervals appears to us innumerable, of our sorrows and our burdens?

  • But there is a worse state than that, and one or other of the two states belongs to us.

  • A superficies is that which professes to have principle, but has no consistency.

  • The Japanese legislator when disgraced invariably rips up his bowels; the English legislator is invariably in disgrace, but has no bowels to rip up.

  • At the same time he is not oppressed by his materials, but has sagacity to estimate their real value, and he has combined with scholarly power the facts which they contain.

  • The pestilence which has its natural home in India, but has journeyed so far from its birth place in these later years, took her father and mother away, suddenly, in the very freshness of their early maturity.

  • The shell is fine, but has only a faint gloss.

  • The shell is fine and soft, but has only a moderate amount of gloss.

  • The shell is fine, but has only a little gloss.

  • The shell is fine and close, but has only a faint gloss.

  • The shell is thin and fragile, but has generally a decided gloss, and the eggs are typically elongated ovals, obtuse-ended, and more or less pyriform or cylindrical.

  • Her manner is gentle; she is prodigiously learned, but has no enthusiasm, which, considering my ignorance, has not electrified me.

  • Born in Lima, New York, but has lived so much in California that she is identified with that State, and especially with San Francisco.

  • Born in New Jersey, but has lived in New York, where she studied at the Art Students' League under Carroll Beckwith.

  • It resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass.

  • Or, in other words, it is an erroneous view of something which exists indeed, but has by no means the qualities or attributes ascribed to it.

  • It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face.

  • It is sometimes cultivated, but has become a pestilent weed in fields from New York to Virginia.

  • What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works?

  • If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can't stand, but has an end.

  • It is often exhibited by the giraffes in the Zoological Gardens in London, but has not, I believe, been recorded by a series of instantaneous photographs.

  • The drunkard craves drink, in fact, far more than he did in this life, but has no stomach which can contain liquor and cause chemical combustion necessary to bring about the state of intoxication in which he delights.

  • It may be between two and three hundred years old; but has suffered no injury.

  • The present is a fair, nice copy; but has something of a foggy and suspicious aspect about it.

  • The present copy is severely cropt at top and bottom, but has a good side marginal breadth.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "but has" 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:
    but always; but because; but don; but few; but first; but for; but found; but her eyes were; but its; but just; but nothing; but perhaps; but she; but such; but they; but they could not; but they were not; but those; but when they came; but while; but without; butter and; butter sauce; butter size; butter them; largely developed