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Example sentences for "had loved"

  • I had loved, laughed, and wandered away with the stroller's happy liberty; but I had never cared.

  • He had loved one 'too fair for earth,' and she had reciprocated 'with all the sweet affection of her pure and noble nature.

  • He looked round at the place he had loved so well, and knew that he was looking at it now for the last time.

  • She understood that he wanted to tell her that he had loved her.

  • He had loved her in his way; she had been one of a series.

  • But in the days when he had loved dishonestly, he had never slipped from Poppy Grace's side with such a sense of misery and solitude and shame.

  • Yet how he had loved it; how he had given himself up to it; how it had soothed him with its suggestion of immortal things.

  • He gripped the hammer in his hand joyfully, eager to smite featureless the face which had so misled him, brought such tragic sorrow to those he had loved.

  • Surely he had loved Silencieux[1] more since he had found for her that beautiful name.

  • The sweet flesh he had loved so tenderly became an offence to him, as a medium too gross for the embodiment of so beautiful a face.

  • And," asked Mimi, "what did he do on leaving the room we had occupied, what did he say on abandoning the room in which he had loved me so?

  • Her mind turned sometimes to the ideal father of her child, evoking visions of the Minor Canon whom her soul had loved.

  • On a shelf apart stood the books that he had loved when he was a boy, the Annuals, the tales of travel and adventure, and one or two school prizes gorgeously bound.

  • He had loved her, and she had cast him from her, and sent him to his sin.

  • She remembered all he had said in the past and how desperately he had loved her.

  • He remembered how passionately he had loved her, and he wondered why now he was entirely indifferent to her.

  • He found it strangely tragic that he had loved her so madly and now loved her not at all.

  • He wondered if he could ever care again for all the things he had loved.

  • And as he was struggling a light flashed upon him in the middle of the night, the image of Hassler, the great musician whom he had loved so much when he was a child.

  • He had loved for so long without knowing whom!

  • These Lieder were written to poems of old Silesian poets of the seventeenth century that Christophe had read by chance in a popular collection, and whose loyalty he had loved.

  • But he had loved Ada so much, he had consumed so much faith, force, and illusion in that passion that there was not enough left for a new passion.

  • There is a horror in her mind--the horror of hearing again that he--he had loved Marian.

  • If I had loved another, would I have cared with whom you were happy?

  • She--the woman he had loved for so long--is in his arms; he forgets everything.

  • And now he was lying among those southern mountains, and she stood in the spot where he had loved to think of seeing her; and with Philip by her side.

  • Lily Dale he had loved; and he now declared to himself that he could have continued to love her through his whole life.

  • And so we will let poor Johnny Eames ride back to Guestwick, suffering much in that he had loved basely--and suffering much, also, in that he had loved nobly.

  • He was thinking almost hourly of a girl whom he had loved, whom he did love, but whom he had so injured, that, under no circumstances, could he be allowed to speak to her again.

  • He had loved Rosalie so well that when she left him the sun seemed absolutely withdrawn from his life.

  • I had loved my mother most passionately; but I was jealous.

  • Mrs. Bell, too, had loved Lydia, and Lydia was bright and happy, and looked forward to a home of her own some day.

  • And this was the woman whom he had loved!

  • How had it gone with that woman whom a few weeks ago he had loved so well that he had regarded her as his wife?

  • Till he lay in my arms I had loved nothing.

  • She was still the woman whom he had loved; and, over and beyond that, was she not the woman who had saved him from a terrible downfall by rushing herself into utter ruin for his sake?

  • I had loved a girl whose existence I had imagined, and of whom I had seen merely the outward form, and had known nothing of the inner self.

  • If he had loved as she had loved how could he live without her?

  • He had loved her so entirely; and she to his outward eyes and outward ears had been so fit to be loved!

  • How different must she have been from that creature whom he had fancied that he had loved, when she would have willingly consented to be the wife of such a man?

  • In the first moment he had a brave impulse to tell her everything and be a man, even if he ruined the woman he had loved so long, as well as the brother who bore his name.

  • He had loved her, Veronica; they had known it, and had taken advantage of it.

  • She felt that it would have been easier, after all, to have killed Veronica Serra, than it had been to part with the one thing she had loved in her life.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had loved" 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:
    could form; domestic life; good service; had become; had been; had before; had gone; had grown; had hoped; had met; had much; had never heard before; had not been able; had observed; had once; had picked; had rather; had scarcely; had some; had such; had suffered; had the greatest difficulty; had written; had you; obtain possession; plain words