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Example sentences for "having been"

  • Here Bazzard awoke himself by his own snoring; and, as is usual in such cases, sat apoplectically staring at vacancy, as defying vacancy to accuse him of having been asleep.

  • Besides, again; having been accustomed to a very short allowance of land all my life, I thought I'd feel my way to the command of a landed estate, by beginning in boxes.

  • A gloomy house the Bower, with sordid signs on it of having been, through its long existence as Harmony Jail, in miserly holding.

  • I might even,' he reflected, 'be apprehended as having been concerned in my own murder!

  • The ungainly piece of honesty beamed and blushed as he said it, quite enraptured with the remembrance of having been serviceable.

  • And this I can tell, if any one can, having been myself in the thick of it.

  • I had seen the Baron de Whichehalse before, and was not at all afraid of him, having been at school with his son as he knew, and it made him very kind to me.

  • There was the coat in its usual place, but exhibiting, on a close inspection, evident tokens of having been worn on the preceding night.

  • I need not acquaint you with what has been my condition for some time past; and how, having been at the edge of the grave, I am, by the unexpected and undeserved mercy of Heaven, restored again.

  • He said, yes, he had, but this had confirmed his opinion, and he was fully satisfied now of my having been injured.

  • His proper name was Louis Bennett, the name "Deerfoot" having been given to him for his prowess in running.

  • When the woman was found by her husband she was hanging from the top of a door, having been driven to suicide on account of his abuse and intemperance.

  • It was easily removed, having been situated in a small depression at the junction of the floor and external wall of the nasal cavity, 22 mm.

  • Varicella, Measles, Pneumonia, and even Malaria are reported as having been transmitted to the child in utero.

  • Levi Silliman Ives, formerly Protestant Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina, who, having been converted to Roman Catholicism, had become a layman and head of a protectory for Catholic children.

  • The paper thus continued to grow and, having been published in New York by Messrs.

  • Such a thing as any special answer to my prayer never entered my mind, having been converted by faith, but still being most undoubtedly saved.

  • That is true," said Don Quixote; "but my squire values them at the rate he says, as having been given me by the person who gave them.

  • These gentlemen want direct refutations, in order that, if they are beaten, they may have, at least, the selfish consolation of having been spoken of.

  • Then the authority passes to another; and, having been re-established by force, it is again maintained by habit.

  • The absurdity of the phalansterian economy is so gross, that many people suspect Fourier, in spite of all the homage paid by him to proprietors, of having been a secret enemy of property.

  • He was half irritated, half depressed; he had an insufferable feeling of having been placed in the wrong, in spite of his excellent cause.

  • For Gloriani he professed a superb contempt, and, having been once to look at his wares, never crossed his threshold again.

  • All this, to Rowland, was ancient history, but his perception of it stirred within him afresh, at the sight of Roderick's sense of having been betrayed.

  • We all suspected her of having been in the dead woman's confidence; we all tried to make her speak; we all failed.

  • The earliest known traditions describe the stone as having been set in the forehead of the four-handed Indian god who typifies the Moon.

  • He was not aware, it is true, of my having been a witness of that scene.

  • Returning to his own residence, he found a letter waiting for him, which was described as having been left a short time previously by a boy.

  • Find out (third) how the person can account for having been in this room, and smeared the paint, between midnight and three in the morning.

  • I know very well, having been invited to one of them to fill a vacant place, when I saw at once that these repasts are very superior to the common run of entertainments for which the humbler sort of J.

  • Probably from the fact of "Richmond" having been added to the date at the end of the preface to "Pauline", have arisen the frequent misstatements as to the Browning family having moved west from Camberwell in or shortly before 1832.

  • Undeniably it is, having been written in the poet's maturity.

  • Ashamed of having been born in the greatest city of the world!

  • There is no reason why it should not have been in nine or eleven parts; no reason why, having been demonstrated in twelve, it should not have been expanded through fifteen or twenty.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "having 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:
    acquired character; grievous punishment; having already; having become; having done; having failed; having faith; having finished; having great; having killed; having made; having nothing; having only; having reference; having regard; having returned; having sent; having seven heads and ten horns; having something; having the; having three; having written; inner surface; interior lines; pale buff; she meant