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Example sentences for "what had been said"

  • He cast himself upon painting, when his great fancy for chemistry had passed or grown deadened, in consequence of what had been said upon it.

  • He loved passionately all kinds of sumptuosity at his Court; and he who should have held only to what had been said, as to the folly of expense, would have grown little in favour.

  • Duc d'Orleans summed up a part of what had been said, and agreed that the Marechal de Villeroy must be got rid of.

  • After a very short pause, as if to reflect on what had been said, he resumed the discourse.

  • The interpreter informed his chiefs of what had been said, who spoke together in earnest consultation for a moment.

  • He had been a little ruffled by what had been said, and now exhibited his temper.

  • It was equally futile to explain to him that the man's last act had been in no degree caused by what had been said in Parliament, but had been the result of his continued failures in life and final absolute ruin.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what had been said" 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:
    what amount; what belongs; what can; what concerns; what constitutes; what did; what difference; what doth; what effect; what followed; what follows; what goes; what has gone before; what made; what people; what period; what pleaseth; what really; what right; what seemeth; what use; what woman; what you have said; whatever thou; whatever you; world community