has-been
Example Sentences
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It's up to the player, manager, or has-been like myself to make a judgement call in the moment.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
For those who think of late-career Elvis Presley as only a plump has-been, a gaudy Las Vegas crooner slinging schlock in the 1970s, Baz Luhrmann’s new movie is a bracing corrective.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026
Among other things, he has called you a fraudster and a failed political has-been, but you’re not responding in kind.
From Slate • Oct. 15, 2025
The former president and California governor was a Hollywood has-been until Spencer came along and turned him into something compelling and new, something they called a “citizen-politician.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2025
“I mean, I might not even be at Hogwarts next year, what’s it matter to me if some fat old has-been likes me or not?”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
