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[ US /ˈhæzˌbɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who is no longer popular

How To Use has-been In A Sentence

  • The team is largely staffed with ancients and has-beens.
  • Exactly how many stories are you going to run about this has-been loser in one day? the truth Republican: Palin is another Huckabee
  • There is no denying that this is an odd moment captured forever - the curious intersection of a revolution and a dissipated Hollywood has-been.
  • Within a few years of having that gigantic show that’s actually been studied in sociology classes in universities for the impact it had on our culture—that show that was a training ground for people who learned enough to go on to massive careers—within a few years of that, I actually started to hear the word has-been whispered behind my back! Roseanne Archy
  • I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been.
  • 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.
  • Players will play an aristocratic descent, has-been invited to participate in "Dou Dezhu, " World Tour, four aristocratic daughter to accompany you to Doude Zhu.
  • The Labour backbenches are now stuffed with the disappointed, the thwarted, the fired, the has-beens and those that were never likely to amount to anything in the first place.
  • I still get invites but I feel like a dinosaur and a bit of a has-been now.
  • On Wednesday, TV Land is rerunning an episode of Fantasy Island with Phil Silvers as a has-been vaudevillian.
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