have sundered
- present perfect of sunder.
Example Sentences
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A blind, willful girl, struggling in imaginary bonds, I thought only of myself, and madly rent apart the ties which death only should have sundered.
From After the Storm by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
The breach between him and his nearest relations was still unhealed; late events seemed, indeed, rather to have widened it, to have sundered them still more completely.
From Under a Charm, Vol. III. (of III) A Novel by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
With the old insatiable hunger, With the old unquenchable thirst, Are you longing, as in the old years We have longed so often in vain; Fellow-toilers still, fellow-soldiers, Though the seas have sundered us twain?
From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop
Through sorrows deep her path has led, And tender ties have sundered been; Bright hopes were buried with her dead, And love has kept their memory green.
From Gleams of Sunshine Optimistic Poems by Chant, Joseph Horatio
Its lines are the last plaintive notes which wintry winds have wakened from an Lolian harp, the strings of which rude hands have sundered.
From History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra by McGlashan, C. F. (Charles Fayette)