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Example sentences for "but never"

  • But never a single one of his people asked him a question, for they were all too busy with their own affairs.

  • He called, but never one of the Four answered.

  • Purun Bhagat heaped his fire high that night, for he was sure his brothers would need warmth; but never a beast came to the shrine, though he called and called till he dropped asleep, wondering what had happened in the woods.

  • The night noises of the marsh went on, but never a bird or beast spoke to him, and the new feeling of misery grew.

  • This was not the first time that I had faced the ferocious Barsoomian lion, but never had I been pitted, single-handed, against a full dozen of them.

  • My body is covered with the scars of a thousand conflicts, but never in all my long life have I suffered such anguish from a wound, for this time the steel of a woman's look had entered my heart.

  • I have heard of the Temple of the Sun, Dator," replied Matai Shang, "but never have I heard that its prisoners could be released before the allotted year of their incarceration had elapsed.

  • I think this impression was due in a great measure to Wigan's entire absence of affectation, and to his persistent appeal to the 'judicious' but never to the 'groundlings.

  • We caught plenty of trout, but never pricked a salmon.

  • The men's faces fell; but never a murmur, nor a sound.

  • I often met him afterwards, but never to make his acquaintance.

  • Money does harm, too, sometimes; but never, I think, to people who have a good heart and a strong mind.

  • But never mind; let us rejoice by all means.

  • In previous winters he had been wont to undergo a good deal of martyrdom from the London climate, but never in such a degree as now; mental illness seemed to have enfeebled his body.

  • Liberty is at all times dear to the free-soured and ingenuous; but never so much so, as when we wear it in its full gloss and newness.

  • We perceive the person who delivers them, to be perpetually labouring after a meaning, but never reaching it.

  • He may undoubtedly be accused, to a certain degree, of dissimulation, or throwing into shade the thing that is, but never of simulation, or the pretending the thing to be that is not.

  • Another is ravished with the divine excellencies of Homer, or of some other of the heroes of literature.

  • Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

  • It was egotism still: aesthetic disgust at the graceless contour of his conduct, but never a hint of simple sorrow for the pain he had given.

  • Her complexion, her glance, her step, her dusky tresses, may have been seen before in a goddess, but never in a woman.

  • He judged instinctively and passionately, but never vulgarly.

  • But never yet to Heaven it sent, I ween, From its hard bosom purer souls than these, Or braver bodies on its surface bore.

  • They had been instructed theoretically in their religion, but never required to bring it into daily practice.

  • But never mind it, William" (her own cheeks in a glow of indignation as she spoke).

  • I regained my couch, but never thought of sleep.

  • He has imprisoned him, and he has driven him from his birthplace and from his native land.

  • There was no flaw in it, A cunninger man than Martin would perhaps have told a lie too many and raised suspicion.

  • A trembling hand was laid on Gerard's shoulder.

  • Margaret was always fair, but never to my eye so bright as now.

  • The opinions and beliefs of crowds are specially propagated by contagion, but never by reasoning.

  • They are as promptly discouraged as they are exalted, they are subject to every description of panic, they are always either too highly strung or too downcast, but never in the mood or the measure the situation would require.

  • In such a gathering affirmations, invectives, and sometimes blows are exchanged, but never arguments.

  • This is shown by the fact, already thoroughly discussed by Kant, that women are good keepers of their own secrets, but never of the secrets of others.

  • Either I hear none of the clocks in particular, or only for a short time, which results in the ticking's being again lost in the general noise; or I do hear the ticking of one clock, but never of that which I have chosen to hear.

  • The presiding officer of a jury court is in the best instances acquainted with a few of the jurymen, but never so far as to have been entrusted with their ``funded thought.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "but never" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but alas; but before; but few; but finally; but for all that; but have eternal life; but his eyes were; but how; but little; but many; but more; but really; but simply; but some; but the; but they will not; but was; but when they were; but whether; butt joint; butter over; butter sauce; buttered baking; buttered bread; butyric acid; speaking minorities