sneeze
verb (used without object)
to emit air or breath suddenly, forcibly, and audibly through the nose and mouth by involuntary, spasmodic action.
have sneezed
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present perfectof sneeze.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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"If we'd have sneezed, we'd have gone bankrupt," he remembers.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has to tell you whether something happened in the past, the present, the future, or some combination of times: sneeze, sneezed, will sneeze, would have sneezed, and so on.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
As a consequence we partook of a grand dish that no inmate of Olympus would have sneezed at.
From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Joseph Dommers Vehling
Catching Laura's eye, he applied a handkerchief with renewed presence of mind, affecting to have sneezed, and stared searchingly over it at Corliss.
From The Flirt by Booth Tarkington
I asked sixty, but wouldn't have sneezed at forty.
From The House 'Round the Corner by Louis Tracy
