Example sentences for: be--and

How can you use “be--and” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Forbes leveled charges about Dole's record that could be--and were--rebutted.

  • The man who had been the charismatically firm "superego" of the school (as he called himself) during its early years could be--and often was--a brutal id by the end.

  • And while in theory that information could be--and sometimes is--the product of especially dedicated digging or sharp analysis, it's often the product of a phone call to a chief financial officer, or comes from a vice president who lets slip that the fourth quarter is looking especially good.

  • Thus a Dame Jeanne (a big fat-bellied bottle) became a demi-john in English, “God encompasseth us’ became the Goat and Compasses , and the girasole (sunflower) artichoke became the Jerusalem artichoke . The “sparrow grass’ Virginia Howard mentions used to be--and probably still is--common usage in the English Midlands for asparagus .

  • In fact, they should be--and are--concerned.


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