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Example sentences for "she might have been"

  • With such eyes and such hair, she might have been as simple as she appeared and he would never have known it.

  • Why, she might have been murdered--if I hadn't made her give them up.

  • She might have been half a mile distant when the gleam of her stern windows swung slowly round and went out.

  • She might have been coming up with us, or else we had just passed her--I couldn't tell.

  • She might have been back in half the time," murmured the family sage, who sat on the carpet, flattening her small features against the glass.

  • Still she was frequently far from amiable, and upon more than one occasion he found her not precisely as polite as she might have been.

  • She might have been anywhere in the later twenties, but Joy learned afterwards that she was thirty-two.

  • She might have been a Courtenay to hear her speak," said his wife.

  • She might not have been excellent, Blakiston; she might have been bad-tempered, she might have attempted to rule you.

  • She might have been guilty of some crime, her bearing was so strange.

  • She might have been surrounded by a dozen people without her eyes even hinting that a soul was there.

  • She hesitated; she might have been frightened by the noise that was going on below.

  • She did not answer; she might have been asleep, and he sat in a stillness born of his disturbance at her nearness, her pale smooth skin, her smooth brown hair, the young curves of her body.

  • She might have been a youth scorning passion because she feared it.

  • Such a nice girl as she might have been, too, if she'd been brought up in Figtree Court!

  • She might have been pretty, I think, but for the one fault in her small oval face.

  • She chaffed her companions, she chaffed the room; she might have been a very clever little girl trying to personate a more innocent big one.

  • She might have been a civilised ogress, estimating from long habit the tender flesh of a child.

  • She might have been a phonograph that contained some record important to him, for all the consciousness of her personality in his blank stare.

  • She might have been great," he declared, "if she hadn't had haemorrhages of the imagination.

  • Had she known how he had often talked to Michael, she might have been of a different opinion.

  • She might have been said to be in a coral cave under the sea, as far as young Blair was concerned.

  • Still, he mused, "she might have been a little nicer about it.

  • She might have been Emma, Lady Hamilton, because perfectly beautiful, perfectly talented, she could risk severe simplicity, having in herself the fire and the art and the seduction.

  • Yes, she might have been twenty-five, and it was a short time for that to have taken.

  • She might have been a large, fair, rich, prosperous person of twenty-five; she was at any rate near enough to it to put me for ever in my place.

  • She might have missed her way and gone too near the sea, and have fallen in; or she might have been entrapped by some lawless gang of sailors and taken to one of their haunts.

  • She had been present at that process as personally as she might have been present at some other domestic incident--the hanging of a new picture, say, or the fitting of the Principino with his first little trousers.

  • She had spoken thoughtfully, with her eyes on her friend's; she might have been talking, preoccupied and practical, of someone with whom he was comparatively unconnected.

  • She might have been his--" She checked herself; she even for a minute lost herself.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "she might have 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:
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