How to Use have done in a Sentence

have done

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  • Roupp had done more of the former than the latter this season.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 7 July 2026
  • Beyond that, look for someone who has done the work, not just studied it.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Rashford has done enough to retain his place on the opposite side for me.
    Adam Crafton, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • What nation in the same situation wouldn’t have done the same thing?
    Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 6 July 2026
  • And in true Midwestern fashion, that’s what our state has done.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
  • He's been labeled a hoaxer and scammer by some, but that has done nothing to slow him down.
    Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
  • The happy couple has done a lot to keep the details of the wedding under wraps.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 2 July 2026
  • But reports indicate the singer has done a lot to try to keep the details under wraps.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 29 June 2026
  • There are a million people out there ahead of me that have done it, and there’ll be a million more behind me.
    Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 7 July 2026
  • Quiz June hasn’t been a good month for many tech stocks, but one company has done worse than others.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Police said then that he had been known to sleepwalk and had done so early Thursday.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026
  • Rodriguez said those assurances have done little to ease her concerns.
    Lauren Morganbesser, semafor.com, 1 July 2026
  • Only Sosa and Crow-Armstrong have done it in back-to-back seasons.
    ABC News, 8 July 2026
  • For two weeks, Venezuela’s twin earthquakes have done more than bury homes and devastate families.
    Tibisay Zea, Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2026
  • With the advent of a salary cap, the owners are hoping to do legally that which they were found to have done illegally.
    Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • But James has still remained a top-level player into his 40s, something no one else has done.
    Tim Casey, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The strongest argument for connecting all of these cases is that lab-leak activists themselves have done the same.
    Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
  • Each new threat becomes a reason to collect more information from people who have done nothing wrong.
    Susie Violet Ward, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Those exiting have done so for financial reasons, not because their play merited it.
    Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • Solo travel has done more for reducing my anxiety than years of therapy.
    Casey Gueren, Washington Post, 6 July 2026
  • Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Nick Bolton has done well in the state of Missouri.
    Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 29 June 2026
  • But now and then, someone comes up with a perfect jersey ad, and that's what the Wisconsin Badgers have done.
    Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
  • However, any of the billion people who have done driving school will know that the driving instructor sits in the passenger seat.
    Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • Seman had done well in a career in computer technology and retired early.
    Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
  • The 35-year-old right-hander has done it 12 times this season — tops in the American League.
    Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026
  • But joining the Nasdaq index has done little to convince critics, who are dubious about the lofty aims of the company.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 8 July 2026
  • Still, while there’s a lot of offseason left, the Wild have done pretty much nothing this summer other than lose three productive players.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • Judging from the photos and video, Alaskan has done a nice job of turning the tiny interior of its camper into an inviting space in which campers will want to spend time.
    New Atlas, 8 July 2026
  • Balogun, after all, had done and said all the right things, acting with restraint and humility, despite having been harshly sent off.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 7 July 2026
  • But the fact that the protests were peaceful is the wrong framing — and the government’s response has done nothing to address underlying problems.
    Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 1 July 2026

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