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Example sentences for "has had"

  • He has had a very hard time of it, ever since he began to recover; but, as you see, he is now doing well.

  • Well he may be,' said Jonas, 'after the mad fit he has had.

  • Other people besides me has had a happy deliverance from Betsey Prig.

  • It may sound strange to many ears if I venture to maintain the proposition that a young person, educated thus far, has had a liberal, though perhaps not a full, education.

  • Such an one and no other, I conceive, has had a liberal education; for he is, as completely as a man can be, in harmony with Nature.

  • He has had to resist temptation, not only in the desert at the beginning, or in Gethsemane at the end, but throughout His life.

  • These three different instances of failure in this parable represent to us, first, the seed carried off at the very beginning, before it has sunk into the ground and before it has had time to germinate.

  • And is a monstrous genteel young man, considering the opportunities he has had.

  • Mr. Garrick, I own, has had a piece of mine and returned it.

  • Sa Majest`e Patapanique(721) has had a dreadful misfortune!

  • They were immediately put in arrest; but the learned in the laws of honour say, they must fight, for no German officer will serve with Vane, till he has had satisfaction.

  • But Garrick began to be liberal as soon as he could; and I am of opinion, the reputation of avarice which he has had, has been very lucky for him, and prevented his having many enemies.

  • He has had a fall from his horse, and been much hurt.

  • Percy, notwithstanding all the noise of the newspapers, has had no literary loss[1295].

  • He has had a little scene with his father, a thorough, rough country squire.

  • There was the Earl of Lansmere,--has had many a blue pill from me, sinner that I was.

  • For each time that I have raised it out of the water, its profile has been turned to me, and I have seen with a shudder that it has had only--One Eye!

  • He has had an offer for the property, which is only L1000 short of what he asks.

  • He has had no regular employment for the past eight months.

  • Has had to-day a pen'orth of bread, for minding a cab.

  • A cup of tea and a bit of bread yesterday, and same to-day, is all he has had.

  • In fever, do not be afraid of allowing the patient plenty either of cold water or of cold toast and water; Nature will tell him when he has had enough.

  • If you give him water to drink, there is no fear of his taking too much; Nature will tell him when he has had enough.

  • She put her arm about his shoulder, and looked happy and triumphant, exactly like the district policeman when he has had a successful chase; but he looked like a criminal of the worst kind.

  • Garibaldi has nothing against this; he has had enough of toiling through the world.

  • He has had so many beatings," said Morten.

  • We will then examine the effects which the theory of evolution, and especially the idea of the struggle for life, has had, and naturally must have, on the discussion of philosophical problems.

  • His portrait of Charles (exact as far as he has had opportunities of noting him) is most exquisite.

  • I have never taken, nor indeed did the Deceased offer, any written acknowledgments of the various sums which he has had of me, by which I could make the fact manifest to the legal eye of an Executor or Administrator.

  • My head begins to clear up a little; but it has had bells in it.

  • This French thinker, Ravaisson, has had an important influence on the general development of thought in France during the latter half of the last century, and much of his work foreshadows Bergson's thought.

  • Perhaps there is no period in recorded time in which the thinker, with something relevant to say on the fundamental questions, has had so large and so prepared an audience as in our own day.

  • As he has actually seen Paris he is able, with the help of the original Intuition he has had of that unique whole which is Paris itself, to place his sketches therein, and synthesize them.

  • For some time he had much to contend with in the district; and he has had up-hill work all along.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "has had" 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:
    absolute space; dark eyes; has already been stated; has become; has been already observed; has been already said; has been already stated; has been pointed out; has been said before; has been truly said; has come; has ever; has given; has had; has its; has left; has nothing; has said; hastened back; hasty meal; hasty retreat; introduction from; nearly circular; this man; was afraid; white male