Example sentences (8)
Nowadays, magazines, comics and pocketbooks are considered “have-beens,” seldom seen in the streets unlike in their heyday.
His choice to center this story on two has-beens clinging by their fingernails to hold onto their position in Hollywood’s social hierarchy is a poignant one, and it adds to much of the movie’s glorious recreation of the feel of that period.
Unless drastic measures are taken to restore the Ghosts’ lost pride, the once mighty Orlando Pirates will become another club in the dustbin of has-beens.
After all, IIFA celebrates mediocrity like mainstream Bollywood and also massages super egos of stars and has-beens willing to make the pilgrimage to a foreign locale for huge dollops of putrefied reverence from the Indian diaspora.
He’s the king of signing those over the hill gang has beens.
Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda’s set becomes an emotional tribute to that band’s late singer, Chester Bennington, and the weekend’s unlikely smash is the reinvention of the Wombats from indie has-beens into a slick, synthesiser-augmented, funny pop machine.
The school had previously announced that all season tickets had beens sold out for the fourth straight season.
It explores the sexual ambivalence of a happy marriage and tries to equate the importance of sexual dreams and might-have-beens with reality.