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Example sentences for: has-been

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in an attempt to regain some of their vanished fame," was on his way to becoming a has-been himself.
The man who had once come up with a "has-been corner" skit, in which, as Zmuda recalls, forgotten performers "would be sent out to flounder in front of an audience ...
Tellingly, the "has-been corner" routine is not in the movie.
(The Journal 's style sheet calls for referring to the recovering has-been as "Mr.
At 10 PM, ABC proudly presents Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People of 1998 . Yes, the queen of celebrity interviews is a pompous has-been whose primary aim is to reduce her interviewees to tears, but there's a guilty pleasure in seeing just who will succumb to one of those famous crying jags.