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Example sentences for "could ever"

  • In a large wooden cradle lay his first-born son--named in memory of one whom neither husband nor wife could ever forget--Philip.

  • To think,' Lucy said, 'that I could ever feel an affection for it, but it is so nevertheless.

  • One felt at a glance that his varying expressions could scarcely fail to reveal all that the young man was now or could ever become, for his face suggested a nature peculiarly frank and rather matter-of-fact, or at least unawakened.

  • While she maintained toward him her polite and friendly manner, he saw that he was forgotten, and that it had not entered her mind that he could ever do anything for her or be anything more to her than at the present time.

  • I wish I could ever do anything that would be what you call kind--that I could ever be of the slightest service to you I fear I shall never have the opportunity.

  • It seemed indeed impossible that any horse could ever so far forget himself in such a place as to remember that he was a horse.

  • I dunno if I could ever get up enough spunk.

  • You're much more forgiving than I could ever be," Anne said, rather crossly.

  • But I knew there was only one man in the world I could ever marry.

  • His own way he would have, however; and finer liars than he could ever stick up to be for a score of years have gone, time upon time, to the land of truth by means of that same view of things.

  • In argument he was so much stronger than I could ever attempt to be that I gave it up, and could only say that if he argued forever it could never make any difference.

  • I then made her, according to certain established regulations from which no deviation, however slight, could ever be permitted, a glass of hot wine and water, and a slice of toast cut into long thin strips.

  • I said I owed him more obligations than I could ever repay, and held him in a higher admiration than I could ever express.

  • But there was Alb at the wheel, looking handsomer and more inscrutable than I could ever look, if I practised for hours on end before a flattering mirror.

  • But I didn't dream then, that the one man I could really care for, could ever be more to me than a dear friend.

  • I don't feel to-night as if I could ever be happy again," I told him.

  • Not the most gifted man that ever lived, in the practice of any art or science, and paid at the highest rate that exceptional genius could justly demand from those who have worked for their money, could ever earn a million dollars.

  • It doesn't seem as if I could ever get up.

  • It was tragical enough with me, for I didn't see how it could ever be made up.

  • You don't think I could ever be unkind to the little soul?

  • On the other hand, she could not believe that he could ever, under any circumstances, turn into the kind of creature who had been held up to her as an example of the habitual drunkard.

  • A violent struggle arose in his thoughts, all at once, without the slightest warning nor even the previous suspicion that it could ever arise at all.

  • I could ever listen to such a proposition?

  • I have so very slight an opinion of human nature that I do not think I could ever be seriously angry with any of its errors.

  • It is surprising that such a by-law (if it deserve the name) could ever be carried into execution, and that the authority of parliament should be requisite to abrogate it.

  • Mr Pecksniff, holding up his hand with something in his manner as nearly approaching to severity as any expression of his, mild being that he was, could ever do.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could ever" 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:
    could bear; could command; could desire; could expect; could form; could give; could imagine; could live; could look; could make; could not have been; could not have done; could not help smiling; could not help thinking; could only; could produce misleading results; could say; could sell; could still; could stop; could succeed; could summon; could swim; could well; couldst thou; nice little