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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"No," said Albano, very warmly, "no hell-conspiracy could have sundered us had she only stayed with me, or even on the earth."
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
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
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 Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
But for the child, mere poverty, he said to himself, should never have sundered them.
From New Grub Street by George Gissing
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
