EVER in a Sentence

Learn EVER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

420 example sentences for EVER, such as:

1. Once a use, for ever a custom.
2. Nothing ever happens in this town.
3. A true friend is for ever a friend.
4. That's why she wouldn't ever use it.
5. They won't ever legalise the drugs trade.

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 Meanings and Examples of EVER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ever
 ad.  at all times, always, at any time
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Watching Mattie whirl down the floor from hand to hand he wondered how he could ever have thought that his dull talk interested her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  "I wouldn't ever have it said that I stood in the way of a poor girl like Mattie marrying a smart fellow like Denis Eady," Zeena answered in a tone of plaintive self-effacement.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
3  That's why she wouldn't ever use it.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  The sight of Mattie going about her work as he had seen her on so many mornings made it seem impossible that she should ever cease to be a part of the scene.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
5  That was the first time the twins' interest had ever diverged, and Brent was resentful of his brother's attentions to a girl who seemed to him not at all remarkable.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  Not that India ever reproached him or even indicated by look or gesture that she was aware of his abruptly changed allegiance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  True, he never made love to her, nor did the clear gray eyes ever glow with that hot light Scarlett knew so well in other men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  No one could ever tell what he was thinking about, Scarlett least of all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  That he would propose some day she had never doubted, for she was too young and too spoiled ever to have known defeat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
10  No one would ever have the temerity to think of Gerald O'Hara as a ridiculous little figure.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
11  The Wilkes are different from any of our neighbors--different from any family I ever knew.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
12  No wife has ever changed a husband one whit, and don't you be forgetting that.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  Nor had she ever seen her sit down without a bit of needlework in her hands, except at mealtime, while attending the sick or while working at the bookkeeping of the plantation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  Coastal Georgia was too firmly held by an entrenched aristocracy for him ever to hope to win the place he intended to have.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
15  Nothing could ever make Gerald feel that he was inferior in any way to anyone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  In the election of a wife, as in a project of war, to err but once is to be undone for ever.
17  The police officer said the attack was the most horrendous he had ever seen.
18  This is the most popular ball game ever devised.
19  Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
20  Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home.
21  They've been good mates ever since they were at school together.
22  With the old wish that is ever new,may the greeting do its share toward making your Christmas a pleasant one.
23  Yesterday the town reached its highest ever February temperature.
24  Nothing ever happens in this town.
25  They won't ever legalise the drugs trade.
26  A true friend is for ever a friend.
27  Once a use, for ever a custom.
28  The police had had to deal with some of the most ferocious violence ever seen on the streets of London.
29  Some of the best lessons we ever learn from our mistakes and failuresThe error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
30  Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.