sunder
verb (used with object)
have sundered
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present perfectof sunder.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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Our foes they have been, and have sundered us; but now are they our friends, and have brought us together.
From The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men by William Morris
Written biography, fiction which truly represents life, and individual memory are full of conscience have sundered those who truly loved and wrought irremediable pain and loss.
From Problems of Conduct by Durant Drake
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 E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
The scientific spirit turns from the legends and the superstitions that in the past have sundered men, have inflamed the religious wars, have filled the realm of imagination with good and evil spirits.
From English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice by Frederick William Roe
Taheia, heavy of hair, a foolish thing have we done, To bind what gods have sundered unkindly into one.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
