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How to use has-been in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word has-been? Here are some examples.

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My pinball skills were no longer celebrated, I was a has-been, a thing of the ancient past.
I still get invites but I feel like a dinosaur and a bit of a has-been now.
The next day, at the audition, Betty has to act the same scene with a lecherous has-been, and suddenly she does it with surprising lubricity.
On Wednesday, TV Land is rerunning an episode of Fantasy Island with Phil Silvers as a has-been vaudevillian.
The judge asks him if he can think of any reason he shouldn't be shipped off to prison and if there's anyone out there who cares about a washed-up has-been.
We don't need any more mockney, has-been Hollywood castoffs in London, they just take up precious space and claim all the freebies so there's none left for us.
They thought he was an old has-been, that the fever had fuddled his wits, that his weeks of near-starvation had starved his brain-tissue into comatose stasis.
I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been.
Unlike the Parliament, the Commission is not elected, but appointed by the member-states, and is frequently used as a sinecure for retired or has-been politicians.
As a writer Shepard is not nearly in the land of the has-been.
Is it better to never be than to be and eventually become a has-been?
Lennox, don't risk losing your reputation and ending up as a stumblebum has-been in the eyes of the English public.
It had become what moviedom dreads most: a has-been.
It is a succinct and sleazy tale about NFL has-been playboy Eric Swift.
Examples from Classical Literature
By the end of the year, they may be calling me a has-been and roasting McRae for getting me on the team.
We have been bombarded with flabby models and the latest has-been to unrobe is 44 year-old Sadie Frost, the one-time wife of Jude Law.
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