bust
noun
a sculptured, painted, drawn, or engraved representation of the upper part of the human figure, especially a portrait sculpture showing only the head and shoulders of the subject.
had bust
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past perfectof bust.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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“And his mouth—he had bust his lip. But he was still happy and everything.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 29, 2015
The owner of the parrot bird was a left-over soubrette who had bust in Havana with a road production of The Sillies of 1492.
From Lady Luck by Hugh Wiley
Why, the night of the fire I threw your suit case out of the window, and when I went down to get it, it had bust open and was full of swell silver-backed things.
From The New Boy at Hilltop by Ralph Henry Barbour
The dry years had bust him, and the most of his friends too.
From Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch by Horace Annesley Vachell
By which token there never was any sheep what had bust in the head sold in our court.
From Sybil, or the Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
