Sentence for been | Use been in a sentence

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• Has a spy been caught? (9)
• She has been very unwell. (10)
• She had been seeing George. (8)
• She had been very queer lately. (8)
• It would have been more regular. (9)
• The question had been strangling him. (12)
• He would consider she had been insulted. (8)
• The thing had been worked very cleverly. (8)
• His revenge would have been complete indeed. (4)
• Neither of them had been near her for weeks. (8)
• Emma knew it to have been very much the case. (4)
• I have been longing for you, looking forward. (10)
• The intimacy had been formed before our marriage. (4)
• But I really had been engaged the whole day to Mr. (4)
• If she had been silent I should have pardoned her. (10)
• They have been and are more to me than I can tell. (14)
• Your peace will not be shipwrecked as mine has been. (4)
• But not so horrible as it would have been in real life. (8)
• She had never been admitted before to be seriously ill. (4)
• For she had never been in love, not even with her husband. (8)
• Without it, he would have been useless in this case of need. (10)
• This man has been haunting the office for the last three days. (9)
• I have been looking for you every day, and you did not return. (18)
• If he had remembered even less he would have been more at ease. (8)
• Never had his wit been directed in a manner so little agreeable to her. (4)
• If she had lived she would have been thirty-two next June; not a great age…. (8)
• He would right heartily have called her comrade, if he had been active himself. (10)
• Rabelais and La Fontaine are recorded by their countrymen to have been reveurs. (10)
• How the delicacy, the discretion of his favourite could have been so lain asleep! (4)
• The idea struck at his heart colder than if her damp little feet had been there. (10)
• A tall woman, over fifty, she moved as if she had been tied together at the knees. (8)
• The winter passed, and in the spring he was not so well as he had been in the fall. (9)
• He spared me a scene: There had been threats, and yet the sky was clear, or seemed. (10)
• If in her voice there were tears, they had been shed by those who would weep no more. (9)
• Cases where Associated Press papers have ceased publication have not been infrequent. (16)
• Clelia Guidascarpi, according to his statement, had first been slain by her brothers. (10)
• When he returned from Richmond, he would have been glad to see Mrs. Rushworth no more. (4)
• This, the captain himself very soon informed them, had not been the kernel of the truth. (10)
• What are outward forms and social ignominies to him whose heart has been struck to the dust? (10)
• It had been serviceable in deadening the first shock, without retaining any influence to alarm. (4)
• He had, indeed, you see, been very fortunately, if not considerately, liberated by Miss Durham. (10)
• The telegram had not been addressed directly to the person in question, but to an intermediary. (12)
• They had been sitting there nearly two hours, but latterly little had been said. (13)
• He persevered in this, after all novelty had been exhausted, from an intuitive dread of weariness. (10)
• This point had been established before by different persons who had been examined. (13)
• That I have been a help to you is a help to myself, and I thank you for telling me of it so frankly. (14)
• When all is said, however, the defection of the daily press has been a staggering blow to democracy. (16)
• She had been too far withdrawn from fashion since her marriage to know whether it was still so or not. (9)
• The great cannon whose muzzles stared grimly from the battlements had been woven into Indian legends. (19)
• But those bronzes and the mantelpiece had not been there when she was, only the fireplace and the wall! (8)
• Cyriax raved as if he had really been seized with the lunacy whose pretence helped him to beg his bread. (5)
• I will make her very happy, Mary; happier than she has ever yet been herself, or ever seen anybody else. (4)
• Everything had been said that was right and proper to be said, in the way that we such things should say. (8)
• She was now in an irritation as violent from delight, as she had ever been fidgety from alarm and vexation. (4)
• Derek winced; it was said as if he had been disabled in an affair in which Gaunt had neither part nor parcel. (8)
• It ought to have been a habit with him by this time, of following his duty, instead of consulting expediency. (4)
• Moreover, the Graves Construction Company was no longer the weak enterprise that it had been five years before. (13)
• Intelligent men have been walking here daily for ten or twenty years without a rag of business or a shilling of reward. (2)
• We were only in anxiety and distress during the last two hours, and previously there had been a great deal of enjoyment. (4)
• If you had come yesterday, I should probably not have been able to give you as complete satisfaction as I can do to-day. (12)
• She has not been out on horseback now this long while, and I am persuaded that, when she does not ride, she ought to walk. (4)
• I should have been willing to ask them or any one where the Peerage lived, only my mind was quite full, and I did not care. (10)
• He had been born reticent, and great, indeed, was the emotion under which he suffered when the whole of his eyes were visible. (8)
• To doubt her truth or good intentions was impossible; and yet, during the whole of their conversation her manner had been odd. (4)
• With it, instead of receiving his inspiration from without, as had been the case with the preceding operas, it came from within. (3)
• After the house was nearly emptied, those mourners who had been in the dining-room appeared, to take carriages for the cemetery. (13)
• Consulting the memorandum-book in which she had been noting the case of Mrs. Hopkins, she slightly preceded Shelton to the house. (8)
• He had not, however, been instructed to apply for an adjournment, and in default of such instruction he conceived it his duty to go on. (8)
• His sophomoric style was the object of sneers and jeers from the men who had been trained in the school of actual practice at the desk. (16)
• If he had so chosen, every street upon the northern slope might have been a noble terrace and commanded an extensive and beautiful view. (2)
• Unlike Hucbald and Otger, he seems to have been more than a secluded monk, for he visited Rome and was a well-known figure in the church. (3)
• Two or three had tried to come in, and been caught, so that they seemed to be clinging there with the intention of being devoured presently. (8)
• Vernon had been driven off by Dr. Corney, who further recommended rest for Mr. Dale, and promised to keep an eye for Crossjay along the road. (10)
• Had not Rockney been given to a high expression of opinion, plain in fervour, he would often have been exposed bare to hostile shafts. (10)
• His looks and speech unconsciously discouraged it, so that if Cecilia had been at all that way inclined, she must long ago have been healed. (8)

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Definition of been:

• been, bn, pa.p. of be.(0)

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