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Example sentences for "has been"

  • It has been done by a scientific experiment.

  • Mrs. Medlock stops in our cottage whenever she goes to Thwaite an' she doesn't mind talkin' to mother before us children, because she knows us has been brought up to be trusty.

  • It has been shut up so long things have grown into a tangle perhaps.

  • Now, first of all, I want to tell you about how the practice has been going on.

  • His mind runs rather on naval architecture at present, and he has been devising an ingenious method of preventing wooden-sided vessels from being crippled by artillery fire.

  • I speak of a man as I find him, and to me he has been an excellent friend.

  • It is in far worthier hands than ever it has been in before.

  • It is not very dark when the lightning has been gone a bit.

  • He has battled bravely with the difficulties and discouragements that beset him in early life, he has been faithful to the charge which he voluntarily assumed, and his father's memory is free from reproach.

  • She's taken a wonderful fancy to the young scamp, and has been as obstinate as could be ever since he has been here.

  • Indeed, it has been already, for I have just thought of a place which I can obtain for you.

  • By the blessing of God, he has been prospered in business and become rich.

  • Let me tie together two of the prettiest tails of the squirrels that he and I killed this morning, to show to the Great Mystery what a hunter he has been.

  • It has been said, and I think it must be true, that they have larger families than we do.

  • This phase of their character is well understood by those whose fortune or misfortune it has been to live among them day in and day out at their homes.

  • And that shall be better for thee belike than it has been for me; though for me also the world has not gone ill after my fashion since I drank of that water.

  • She was silent a while, and then she said: "He is so evil that it might be deemed that he has been brought up out of hell.

  • He has been so VERY kind to me through it all!

  • He has been so good in letting me go," she resumed.

  • You are glad, of course, that he has been!

  • He is better than he was; but it has been a long, weary time!

  • But it has been known a long time that it is his plan.

  • But as for murders, I do not find that there was ever any proof of the facts in the manner as it has been reported, except as above.

  • The location was high and dry, and it has been only a short time.

  • But it has been packed in moth preventives ever since and out only four times a year to air, as you told me.

  • Besides, I was born and reared here, and while it has been a garden of bloom for the past six years only, it always has been a picture; but one forgets to say much about a sight seen every day and that requires the work this does.

  • It has been stirring me up morning and night like the voice o' the charmer, and I be to follow it though I ken well enough it isna leading me in the paths o' peace and pleasantness!

  • He has brought this letter for you from our son Thomas; and he has been so kind as to take charge of some fine horses, and sell them well for him in San Antonio.

  • I have watched them faithfully, though for many good reasons it has been best to appear indifferent.

  • As he persisted in wearing arms, he has been taken to the Alamo and disarmed.

  • Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.

  • Since this sector is small, it has been unable to absorb the large numbers of the unemployed.

  • He was rather reluctant to speak, but a friend who was present contributed the following: "Perhaps I can tell you why it is that he has been a lucky man all his life.

  • He has been called a "medicine man" and a "dreamer.

  • The westward pressure of civilization during the past three centuries has been tremendous.

  • Here is his speech as it has been given to me, delivered at the great council on the Powder River, just before the attack on Fort Phil Kearny.

  • The hydrate of lime should, not be dried over a heat, as has been supposed by many, for in that case the hydrogen is expelled and it returns to a carbonate.

  • Dust flying about the room is injurious, if allowed to fall on the plate, either before or after it has been coated, as it causes black spots which cannot be removed.

  • The use of fats, oils, or greasy substances, has been one of the most emphatic prohibitions about the Daguerreotype plate.

  • The manner of judging correctly of the time is by the appearance of impression after it has been developed by the mercurial vapors.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "has been" 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:
    arrived there; cases treated; has already been remarked; has already been said; has always; has been already mentioned; has been already observed; has been already remarked; has been said above; has come; has ever; has given; has got; has had; has left; has not; has said; has seen; hasty meal; hasty movement; hasty pudding; much interest; photo above; several different; under color; when informed