Sentence examples for have been old from inspiring English sources
They may have been old but they were not good.
Like my paternal grandfather, Ba-sidi would have been old but active.
The phrases thus cast must have been old as Methuselah, if not the hills.
Certainly few would have been old enough to experience it in its heyday.
FOOL: Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.
He might have been old at the time, but he did not feel that way.
Darwin's rhyming couplets may have been old-fashioned but his subject matter was entirely new.
Yesterday, investors piled instead into financial, drug and other high-quality stocks that have been old-economy laggards.
Whereas a number of former chief inspectors have been old-establishment figures who turned native (notably, former army general David Ramsbotham), Hardwick has always supported the underdog.
"See how ashamed you are of yourself?" I endeavored to counter this by saying that the atmosphere might have been old-fashioned, but I had not sensed any nostalgia for the past nor had I heard any innuendos about the present.
He couldn't have been older than 15.
