Example Sentences

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She explained that she had not fully recovered her sense of smell nor taste, but was "well-improved".

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2021

They were married young, and settled upon the hereditary estate of my mother, which consisted of a well-improved Virginia plantation.

From A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren by Charless, Charlotte Taylor Blow

He owed his introduction to court, and the personal favor of Elizabeth, as is traditionally reported, to a fortunate and well-improved accident, which is too familiar to need repetition here.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

On a well-improved station the bullocks, heifers, and weaners will be in separate paddocks, and at a certain season the bulls are taken out of the herd and put in a paddock by themselves.

From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland

And whether flax and tillage do not naturally multiply hands, and divide land into small holdings, and well-improved?

From Querist by Berkeley, George