Sentence examples for proved was from inspiring English sources

As one musician remembers, a concert was a "proving ground," even if the only thing being proved was that the locals wouldn't let out-of-towners push them around in the pit.

Which, as it proved, was the case.

The attack, it was eventually proved, was orchestrated by Harding's former husband, Jeff Gillooly.

Fiona comes to this conclusion: "Kindness, the Family Division daily proved, was the essential human ingredient".

Perhaps all they proved was that they could beat Denny Neagle.

The aims and aspirations of the three parties in Palestine appeared incompatible, which, as events proved, was indeed the case.

An Obama partisan might say that all this proved was Republican intransigence; but that's not how it came across.

But as the infamous snapshot of the couple kissing amid the Vancouver ice hockey riot proved – was she injured?

"All he proved was that the anti-Kerry vote was bigger than the anti-Bush vote," Gingrich said.

All that proved was that Dusty Baker, the Giants' manager, was damned if he didn't and damned if he did.

Theft, if proved, is bad, of course.