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Use had in a sentence

Sentences starting with had

Had you uttered your real opinion in the first place, the wine would have tasted better to us both. [10]
Had not the Young Doctor said that Burlingame had written to lawyers in the old land to get information concerning him? [11]
Had the lady you mean a large semi-circular scar just under the hair, exactly in the middle of her forehead? [10]
Had it been you it would not have mattered. [11]
Had a case yet? [5]
Had hell indeed yawned, and were the flames soaring up to the sky through the riven shell of the earth? [10]
Had Mr. Charles Wrexell Allen arrived at Asquith and created a sensation with the man who stole his name I should have been amply satisfied. [9]
Had she never worn that painted robe before? [6]
Had the Old World anything to show more positive and uncompromising in all the elements of character than the Englishman? [4]
Had he any word for me? [11]

Sentences ending with had

How much suffering would have been spared if you had! [10]
It was Euphrasia who took matters in her own hands and killed the fatted calf, and the meal to which they presently sat down was very different from the frugal suppers Mr. Vane usually had. [9]
They never knew whether they had deceived the janitor or not; as they came in a coupe, they hoped they had. [8]
He would take what they had. [5]
And the painters, what a good time they had! [5]
What a time we might have had! [5]
He has a way of gittin' 'em--always had. [9]
My first thought was, "Well, what an astonishing dream I've had! [5]
This occupied every waking moment she had. [5]
I got off very well, considering the opportunities that these other fellows had. [5]

Short sentences using had

I had forgot your state. [9]
If I had your luck--! [11]
What provocation had you? [11]
Denisov had not yet returned. [2]
He had not yet returned. [10]
Mischief had been wrought. [5]
Pierre had a wonderful tongue. [11]
Her eyes had wonderful light. [11]
He had spoken without bitterness. [9]
Lassiter had fired Withersteen House! [13]

Sentences containing had two or more times

He had loved Zoe in a way that in a mother would have meant martyrdom, if necessary, and in a father would have meant sacrifice when needed; and indeed he had sacrificed both time and money to find Zoe. [11]
Never had the zealous magistrate appeared so repulsive as to-day, and when he remembered how the crafty man had outwitted poor Father Anselm in his presence, he felt as if he had himself committed an unworthy deed. [10]
When the fiery youth had performed the task which now claimed all his powers, he hoped to find him more inclined to allow himself to be led farther along the path which he had entered. [10]
A vivacious, eager youth had duped her and had promised happiness to her sister instead of to her; it had been hard to bear--and yet, the Saviour of whom Hellos had told her, had been far more severely tried. [10]
Youth answering to youth had claimed its own; love springing from the dawn, brave and bright-eyed, had waved its wand towards that good country called Home. [11]
I judged from your remark about the diligence and industry of the high Parisian upper crust that it would have some point, but really I had no idea what a gold-mine I had struck. [5]
One man, whom your correspondent spoke to, said that he had had one hundred and fifty head of cattle and one hundred head of hogs. [5]
I don't want your book; my shelves are full of books now," though the reader may remember that it was Carlton himself who had given the frog story to the Saturday Press and had seen it become famous. [5]
A Numidian, the youngest of the legion, a beardless youth, had pinned the terrible conqueror of lions and men to the bed with his spear, and then, with the same weapon, had released at least a dozen of his fellow-sufferers from their pain. [10]
And after the young woman had told with great simplicity and earnestness of the struggle to support herself and lead an honest and self-respecting existence, it seemed to Honora that at last she had opened the book of life at the proper page. [9]

More example sentences with the word had in them

It had no Zulu clicks in it; and it seemed to have no angles or corners, no roughness, no vile s's or other hissing sounds, but was very, very mellow and rounded and flowing. [5]
But as the zigzag flash of lightning had just been followed by the peal of thunder, she clung to him, earnestly beseeching him not to leave her. [10]
Bagration had sent Zherkov to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat immediately. [2]
With his usual zeal he had gathered facts concerning the scene, which put my fictions all to flight. [4]
He had hurt you--you went to him.... Good! [11]
You are pleased, you've had a good time.... [2]
A handsome, agile youth, to her sincere regret, had just fallen, but swiftly recovered his elasticity, and, springing to his feet, belaboured his opponent, a clumsy giant, so skilfully and vigorously that the bright blood streamed down his ugly face and big body. [10]
As for that youth, Clement Lindsay, if he had not taken himself off as he did, Murray Bradshaw confessed to himself that he should have felt uneasy. [6]
We had a youth living with us by the name of Jim Wolfe. [5]
Himself in early youth had felt the austerity of a Cavalier father turned a Puritan on a sudden, and he wished no such experience for his daughter. [11]
The roll the youth had brought to the camp contained two letters. [10]
A noble, promising youth had addressed them to her sister, his betrothed bride. [10]
I think you yourself realized that my wish to wait a year before giving a final answer was proof that I really had not that in my heart which would justify me in saying what you wished me to say. [11]
Trying to play yourself for a stranger and an innocent!--why, I knew you before you had spoken seven words; and I made up my mind to find out what was your little game. [5]
If I had yours to put up alongside of them, I believe the combination would bring more souls to earnest reflection and ultimate conviction of their lost condition, than any other kind of warning would. [5]
But dread of your uncle drove me on, and I had debts to frighten me. [9]
You have had your trials, you have them still; but every gift of man is yours, and every opportunity. [11]
I passed through your town at a certain time, and received a deep offence which I had not earned. [5]
You had only your sword and my poor fortune and me then--that is all; but you were a man. [11]
I didn't know your own Snodgrass, but have had glimpses of him from time to time, and I heard about him all the time. [5]
I knowed what your notions of right and wrong was--your--your mother had them. [9]
She had seen your name in the papers--English and Jamaican. [11]
I had read your letters to my wife--" "Your wife once on a time! [11]
You said in your letter that you had news. [11]
When I read your letter first, a flood of fire seemed to run through my veins; then I became as though I had been dipped in ether, and all the winds of an arctic sea were blowing over me. [11]
Just think of your having had our head translator for a model. [8]
At sight of your face I took one big gulp, for I had no notion of getting you back to her. [9]
If I had your face and neck and figure I'd die before I'd live in Rivington. [9]
I saw that your eyes were not opened, but I think I had a certain presentiment, for which I do not pretend to account, that they would be opened. [9]
You could rest your elbow on its eaves, and you had to bend in order to get in at the door. [5]
But you had your chance with me, and you threw it down like a piece of rotten leather. [11]
When you had your armor on, to-day, it gave one a sort of notion of it; but in these pretty silks and velvets, you are only a dainty page, not a league-striding war-colossus, moving in clouds and darkness and breathing smoke and thunder. [5]
Men would call your acts treacherous if they knew what you had done; and so indeed they were; but yet I have seen you do things to others--not to me--which could rise only from the fountain of pure waters. [11]
I only made your acquaintance after I had rescued you, and I opposed the mob, not for the sake of any particular man, but for that of law and order. [10]
They were not youngsters, either of them; but they had the spring of youth in them, and a deep basis of strength and force; and they knew the veld and the veld people. [11]
What romps we youngsters had about the old place whilst our elders talked their politics. [9]
But when the youngest went, she commenced the work as soon as she reached the lodge; although it had always been occupied, still the Indians never could see any one. [5]
Pyrrhus and his youngest son were just pushing a boat into the water to release from the sands another which had run aground in a shallow near the neighbouring island. [10]
She was the youngest of five maiden sisters, and had arrived at the mature age of eighteen. [4]
Two of the younger men Honora recognized with a start, but for a moment she could not place them--until suddenly she remembered that she had seen them on her wedding trip at Hot Springs. [9]
But he, my younger brother, had five little ones, while I, you see, only left a wife behind. [2]
If I were younger and very strong I would dearly love to spend a season in London--provided I had no work on hand, or no work more exacting than lecturing. [5]
She seemed still young, but poverty had marked her with unmistakable signs. [9]
In one so young, and so unused to the scenes in which she had lately moved, this sinking of the spirit was not surprising. [12]
She was so young, and she had shown kindness to a Hebrew surely they might listen to her. [10]
Some one person--some young woman, it must be--had produced a singular impression upon him since those earlier perilous experiences through which he had passed. [6]
Perhaps no handsome young woman had ever looked at him so in his life. [6]
I remember a young wife who had to part with her husband for a time. [6]
He was a young undertaker, who had just succeeded to a thriving business. [6]
He was too young to die, but he had gold, and the captain of the citadel needed money. [11]
Go to the young surgeon who had accompanied them, ask him who she was, and so learn the clue to the mystery concerning her lover? [11]
Agne, Marcus, the young soldier--nay, even Gorgo, were loftier and nobler than she or her people, and she was conscious for the first time that the dangers from which Marcus had longed to protect her were not the offspring of his fancy. [10]
This one, a young soldier, his face deadly pale, his shako pushed back, and his musket resting on the ground, still stood near the pit at the spot from which he had fired. [2]
He had a young sister with a remarkable voice--he was giving her a musical education, so that her longing to be self-supporting might be gratified. [5]
Turning to the young reporter, Mr. Hill, who had finished his writing, he said: "Bob, a little air will do you good. [9]
A party of young Puan bucks had decreed it to be their pleasure to encamp in Mr. Brady's yard, to peer through the shutters into Mr. Brady's house, to enjoy themselves by annoying Mr. Brady's family and others as much as possible. [9]
The other day young Princess Irina Vasilevna came to see me; she was an awful sight--looked as if she had put two barrels on her arms. [2]
Indeed, an audacious young praetorian had put out his hand to pull away her veil, but an older officer stopped him. [10]
She begged the young persons who had travelled to tell something of their experiences. [6]
I recognized the young officer who had put a hand upon Alixe. [11]
There was a young novelist present whose first story, "The Girl I Left Behind Me," had made a hit the last season. [4]
In fact, the young mother had waited from early dawn with increasing anxiety for her husband. [10]
Among the many young men who frequented her house every day, Boris Drubetskoy, who had already achieved great success in the service, was the most intimate friend of the Bezukhov household since Helene's return from Erfurt. [2]
Of all the young men she knew, not one had ever ventured into anything of the sort. [9]
Of the other young men of the village Gifted Hopkins was perhaps the most fervent of her admirers, as he had repeatedly shown by effusions in verse, of which, under the thinnest of disguises, she was the object. [6]
One of their young men had stayed away, and, in endeavoring to overtake them, came to the place where the head was hung up. [5]
He gave the young men a pretty fight indeed, and long before they had him conquered the elder guests had made their escape through door and window. [9]
On seeing the young master, the elder one with frightened look clutched her younger companion by the hand and hid with her behind a birch tree, not stopping to pick up some green plums they had dropped. [2]
He took the young Marylander to task for going to the Church of the Galileans, where he had several times accompanied Iris of late. [6]
A very interesting young married woman, detained at home at the time by the state of her health, was bitten in the entry of her own house by a rattlesnake which had found its way down from The Mountain. [6]
He was a young man, very spare and very burned, with bright red hair and blue eyes that had a kind of laughter in them, and yet were sober. [9]
While still a young man, he had a manner of folding his hands and smiling which is peculiar to capitalists, and he knew the laws concerning mortgages in several different states. [9]
Dorothea received the young man with warm sympathy; she had heard that his father had fallen in the fight, and how nobly he too had distinguished himself. [10]
He was a young man with a praiseworthy ambition to get on in the world, and during his apprenticeship in the office of the Honourable Hilary Vane many letters and documents had passed through his hands. [9]
Here was the young man whose life she had saved, at least for the moment, and who was yet in danger from the disease which had almost worn out his powers of resistance. [6]
This was the young man who had made the faux pas which had caused Mrs. Ferguson so much consternation, and who had so manfully apologized afterwards. [9]
He still a young man but no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather important post in Vienna. [2]
Oliver was a young lawyer, fresh from the schools, who had gone out to the deserts of Nevada to begin life. [5]
He was a young lawyer turned actor, and he had lived in Montreal before he went on the stage. [11]
Another, a mature young lady of fifteen, who waited on the table, in the leisure after supper asked the Friend for a light for her cigarette, which she had deftly rolled. [4]
But perhaps the young lady had the reason. [8]
Here were this young lady and his friend, who had known each other for three days, perhaps, in the most casual way, and her friends had her already as good as married to him and off on a wedding journey. [4]
There were literary young ladies, who had read everything of Dickens and Thackeray, and something at least of Sir Walter, and occasionally, perhaps, a French novel, which they had better have let alone. [6]
Even as a young lad, his father's notable place in the colony, and the freedom and gaiety of life in Quebec and Montreal, had drawn upon him a notice which was as much a promise of the future as an accent of the present. [11]
It was the young hipparch who had studied in Athens and accompanied the commandant of Pelusium to Tennis the year before. [10]
No one but young Hillyer had been intimate with Flint Buckner; no one had really had a quarrel with him; he had affronted every man who had tried to make up to him, although not quite offensively enough to require bloodshed. [5]
These were adventurous young gentlemen of family, some of them lawyers and some of them late officers in the Continental army who had been rewarded with grants of land. [9]
More than one young gentleman of family had been known to ride through the Place du Vier Prison, hoping to get sight of her, and to offer the view of a suggestively empty pillion behind him. [11]
But the sturdy young fellow knew how to defend his liberty, and had already released himself from his assailant when other servants grasped him. [10]
She liked the Young Doctor, as who did not who came in contact with him, except those who had fear of him, and who had an idea that he could read their minds as he read their bodies. [11]
Without heeding the young Burgrave Eitelfritz or Sir Boemund Altrosen, who were just approaching her, she forced her way nearer to her father, He still maintained his self-control, but already the veins on his brow had swollen and his short figure was rigidly erect. [10]
He concluded that young Brice was not the type to acquire the money which his father had lost. [9]
And for the young bloods, whose greatest regret was that they could not send forth a daughter of joy into the Champs Elysee in her carriage, she had ever sent them about their business. [11]
Moreover, of the young birds hatched from the eggs of the common geese, only four were pure, the other eighteen proving hybrids; so that the Chinese gander seems to have had prepotent charms over the common gander. [1]
He knew that young and old wolves were there, that the hounds had separated into two packs, that somewhere a wolf was being chased, and that something had gone wrong. [2]
Pretty Pierre and Young Aleck had talked together, and the old man had heard his son say: "Remember, Pierre, it is for the last time. [11]
If we had, you'd have waited till the Gulf of Mexico freezes over before you got any coupons paid. [4]
Can I tell you?--I almost had five minutes of envy that evening. [4]
I looked for you; but you didn't come, and I thought you had forgotten me. [11]
We have recognized you," he now seemed to hear the words she had uttered and to see before him her eyes, her smile, her traveling hood, and a stray lock of her hair... and there seemed to him something pathetic and touching in all this. [2]

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