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Example sentences for "having made"

  • When the Gauls, having made a prompt and bold effort to force the enemy, were themselves repulsed, they break through where a way seemed most open, and fly in consternation to their villages around.

  • Having made one, Methinks it should have power to steal both his, And leave itself unfurnish'd.

  • By this I believe you may well repent of having made mention at all of this matter; for, if I have not all this while won you to this, I have certainly wearied you of it.

  • I supped last night with Rickman, and met a merry natural captain, who pleases himself vastly with once having made a pun at Otaheite in the O.

  • I have said enough; and, like one at your levee, having made my bow, I shrink back into the crowd.

  • I was once extremely fond of my pencil, and it was a great mortification to me when my father turned off my master, having made a considerable progress for a short time I learnt.

  • Having made up her mind to this from the first, when the subject came forward, her open, cheerful look and manner were meant to show that she was not afraid, and that her wish was real.

  • You must have wished for more self-command,' said Albinia, disturbed by Lucy's evident pleasure in having made a scene.

  • Having made a violent attack upon one, who drew out the wretch's sword and dagger, and thrust him through the belly, so that his bowels burst out, and he died most miserably.

  • Having made an abortive attempt to raise a rebellion in his native county of Kent,[90] he and eleven others were made prisoners, tried by martial law, and condemned to the gallows.

  • Now while the forces of Xerxes were sailing in order towards them, the Hellenes kept quiet at Artemision; and the Barbarians, having made a crescent of their ships that they might enclose them, were endeavouring to surround them.

  • Having made this, they caused others to go into the space which had been built round, until they had in this manner numbered them all throughout: and after they had numbered them, they ordered them separately by nations.

  • After that the Thebans, having made an attempt with the alliance of the sons of Aiacos and having been roughly handled by the Athenians, sent again and gave them back the sons of Aiacos and asked them for men.

  • The Portuguese were very much annoyed, having made up their minds that copper is abundant, and still believing it to be so.

  • Having made a voyage or two with Master Hawkins, he obtained the command of the Judith, a bark of fifty tons, one of a squadron under the same Admiral.

  • Having made up my mind to hope no more, I got rid of a great deal of that terror which unmanned me at first.

  • And, having made me pledge him in a bumper, he swallowed in rapid succession several goblets of the wine.

  • Captain Hood, having made a signal to the admiral, continued the chase until he advanced within half musket-shot of the enemy, and then poured in a broadside, which was immediately retorted.

  • Having made a half stitch, bring the needle out at the beginning of the line to be worked, at the lower edge, and put it in 1/8th of an inch from the beginning of the upper edge.

  • Having made a half-stitch entering the material at the upper edge of the work, bring the needle out on the lower edge of it immediately opposite.

  • Moreover, having made a resolve to assist and favour Michelagnolo, he sent for his father Lodovico and asked for the boy from him, saying that he wished to maintain him as one of his own children; and Lodovico gave him up willingly.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "having made" 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:
    bent double; dead kings; disturb them; having arrived; having been; having been the first; having died; having fallen; having first; having heard; having made; having many; having occurred; having once; having power; having previously; having recourse; having returned; having seen; having seven heads and ten horns; having some; having something; having succeeded; mutual agreement; well understood; will instantly