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Example sentences for "would have been difficult"

  • Assuredly, when on the occasion of the first representation of the ballet of Nina, their Majesties entered their box, it would have been difficult to imagine that the Emperor had already enemies among his subjects.

  • This, indeed, was no wonder; for it would have been difficult to look at the little Princess without feeling happier for it.

  • For a constant companion, it would have been difficult to find any one more delightful than the Lady Emmelina.

  • In truth, it would have been difficult to find an object better worth looking at than "lovely Lettice" at that moment.

  • It would have been difficult to have found two instructors so opposed to the Catholics and to France, or so well suited to the King as teachers of his successor.

  • It would have been difficult to succeed worse, both with the one and the other.

  • Luckily we had just then dropped on a good sheltered camping-ground; otherwise it would have been difficult enough to find one in such weather, where nothing could be discerned.

  • It was easy enough to look only at her body, and it would have been difficult to behold anything more beautiful.

  • It would have been difficult to ask a more indiscreet question, considering that the company was composed almost entirely of Frenchmen and Spaniards in about equal proportion.

  • Indeed, so far as I could judge, the whole staff of the Excellent had reached a standard of efficiency and excellence it would have been difficult to find fault with.

  • It would have been difficult to find fault with the welcome that was extended both to the ship and myself personally.

  • I think, however, that it was just one of those touch-and-go cases where it would have been difficult to convict, for I heard no more of the matter.

  • After that piece of embroidery it would have been difficult to persuade me that Jack took no pride in his ship.

  • It would have been difficult to find models more fitted to inspire a great painter.

  • It would have been difficult to find a better, a more courageous mother.

  • It would have been difficult to count the healths which were drank after the ladies had left us.

  • During the whole of the foregoing scene, it would have been difficult to have traced a single distinct emotion in the lineaments of the captive.

  • A room with more elaborate preparation for order, and less success in attaining it, it would have been difficult to discover.

  • As he stood there, arrayed but in shirt and trousers, pale and trembling, with the cold sweat on his brow, it would have been difficult even to imagine a more distressing and pitiable sight.

  • It would have been difficult to say what the Indians lived on.

  • It would have been difficult to interpret his sigh.

  • Whether he was himself convinced of the man's guilt it would have been difficult to say.

  • It would have been difficult to remember a single week since she had lived in Barnriff which had not witnessed at least one small kindness from him.

  • They had travelled chiefly at walking pace, by rough paths, and through woods where the tracks would have been difficult to find even in the daytime, and impossible at night save to one who knew them intimately.

  • There were probably degrees in the viciousness of these men and women, but, as a whole, it would have been difficult to bring together a more abandoned company.

  • The object which they were removing seemed heavy, and at times the clanking of iron could be heard; it would have been difficult to say what it was.

  • As for the meat, to listen to the Professor it would have been difficult even to imagine anything more exquisite!

  • In truth it would have been difficult to have anywhere found a better.

  • The men shipped by Captain Turcott to work the sails or drive the engine were a picked crew, and it would have been difficult to find a better one.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would have been difficult" 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:
    even worse; should look; would agree; would appreciate; would begin; would burst; would come; would consent; would cost; would find; would follow; would have given anything; would lose; would propose; would rise; would seek; would seem; would sell; would send; would sometimes; would stay; would suffice; would take too long; would tend; would that; would want