How To Use Might-have-been In A Sentence
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There was no mileage in retracing memories to the lost land of might-have-been.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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A letter from an old flame fluttered to the welcome mat this week, tinged with the rosy glow of nostalgia and giving off a faint melancholy whiff of might-have-beens.
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One is left to reflect on the many might-have-beens and the extreme narrowness between victory and a severe setback.
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Looking at the might-have-beens of stylistic variation is a way of making the elusive quality of good writing open to inspection.
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This is a fascinating might-have-been, a six episode script for the first season of Doctor Who telling the story of a murder conspiracy against Alexander the Great, by Moris Farhi.
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Iceland is a sobering might-have-been for the Greeks.
The Euro's Tribulations
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The other might-have-been concerns the 1990 World Cup finals in Italy.
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A subtle gesture, a quick flight into rage, that sassy line of dialogue - all these might-have-beens can keep bit-players from becoming stars, or stars becoming legends.
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Just what would have happened if Rommel's staff car had not been strafed by the RAF, thus putting him out of action four days before the assassination attempt, is one of the great might-have-beens of history.
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Bear also does a great job of rewriting history here, with a dark version of 1938 that fits perfectly into might-have-been territory … Bear provides plenty of political intrigue, some tension and enough mythic conversation to make readers long for a mystical library collection of their own.
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He had his share of abandoned projects, what the author refers to as ‘Leonardo's might-have-beens.’
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The might-have-beens preoccupy us as a random natural disaster never can.
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Bangazi provided a glimpse of a glorious might-have-been, something we both want.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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Still, there are few might-have-beens that taste as good as this one.
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So to answer your question, yes—there are zero points in time wherein we could have changed a might-have-been to an is.
The Dragon’s Apprentice
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You could say this was a match about might-have-beens.
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Counterfactual history - the history of might-have-beens - then becomes much more than an exercise in subjective speculation.
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Bacon's history is open to the world, from his boyhood to his death in old age -- a history consisting of known facts, displayed in minute and multitudinous detail; _facts_, not guesses and conjectures and might-have-beens.
Is Shakespeare Dead? from my autobiography
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Would-be, wannabe, might-have-been, Moss is an incarnation of that combination of boulomaic modality and subjunctivity level so common in Crime and Realism, that of failure, of events that "should have happened, but did not".
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Given the ethical dilemmas, the future scenarios of many of the movies discussed here have been consigned to the realm of might-have-been sci-fi.
Could Never Let Me Go give human clones a good name?
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But the shoulders have widened and the appetite for victory sharpened by a few years' reflection on the might-have-beens.
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The main theme rounded out, speaking of loss, reminding of might-have-beens.
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In some cases, a might-have-been can even be viewed, as this one once was, by Masters Wells, Verne, and Sigurdsson.
The Dragon’s Apprentice
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This opens up a lost world of might-have-beens.
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If so, a duo that could have created so much, and yet created so little, is just another might-have-been.
Blair's job was done by 1997: to numb Labour, and to enshrine Thatcherism
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Maybe the glimpse (s) of suburban Manchester he got in the early 1950s were quite enough to feed his fantasies of that “provincial” might-have-been life.
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