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Example sentences for "might have been the"

  • And though that bronze block, were it hurled at King's head, might have been the death of him, she was not once in doubt as to the end of this conflict.

  • Also, it might have been the job to hang you, Honeycutt.

  • But this was not enough for the young gentleman who 'might have been the Saviour of the World.

  • It might have been the face of a man of sixty years, though it would have been hard to tell wherein lay the semblance of age, so smooth was the skin and so brilliant the eyes.

  • When they knelt upon the turf beside some crystal brook, and drank of the water which seemed red wine or molten gold according to the nature of the trees above it, it might have been the water of Lethe.

  • A month ago Georgia, for all I knew or cared, might have been the property of our former George the Fourth, or still the prize of victory for Saint-George and the Dragon.

  • He might have been the lion of a season if he had liked, with his romantic history and noble appearance.

  • I might have been the lion of the season, if I liked.

  • Something--it might have been the sigh or the loneliness in which he found her--imparted to him the idea that the sleep was a rest from sorrow rather than fatigue.

  • Something in the utterance attracted his attention; it might have been the tone, it might have been the wish.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "might have been the" 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:
    body guard; inch square; might bear; might fall; might feel; might happen; might know; might make; might not; might prove; might require; might say; might serve; might speak; might still; might think; mighty arms; mighty blow; mighty king; mighty monarch; mighty nice; mighty pretty; mighty wind; natural process; receive from; small metal