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Example sentences for "even when"

  • Turner's landscape, even when it presents familiar scenes, does not show them in the familiar light.

  • With it will vanish that habit of periodic calm, which, even when it has become so largely void of conscious meaning, is, one may safely say, the best spiritual boon ever bestowed upon a people.

  • The topography throughout, even when professing to accord with Blunt's Lunar Chart, is entirely at variance with that or any other lunar chart, and even grossly at variance with itself.

  • Even when a cannon is fired over a corpse, and it rises before at least five or six days' immersion, it sinks again if let alone.

  • Of our experiences during the night she said no word to me, even when we were alone.

  • Even when I lay asleep in the coffin you began to love me, but until you dreamed a certain dream you would not admit it.

  • But who could have thought that he would run so cunning, even when he knew my sentiments towards the lady?

  • The mother refused to leave her little one however, and still continued to wheel round it continuously, even when it had reached dangerously shallow water.

  • They never seemed to break their ranks; even when swimming, one beheld the same level brownish mass on the surface of the water.

  • Fortunately the tide was in our favour, and we were rapidly swept inshore, even when we floated listlessly on the surface of the water.

  • The laws of physics, it may be urged, are apparently adequate to explain everything that happens to matter, even when it is matter in a man's brain.

  • Even when we confine ourselves to relations between two terms which are both imaged, it may be impossible to form an image-proposition in which the relation of the terms is represented by the same relation of the images.

  • Even when he had left the churchyard, Mr Pecksniff still remained shut up; not being at all secure but that in his restless state of mind Tom might come wandering back.

  • Even when I have had the anguish of discovering that I have nourished in my breast on ostrich, and not a human pupil--even in that hour of agony, they have soothed me.

  • I wish to pay as I go, even when I buy of you.

  • And for the rest, the sea has its hours of dulness and monotony, even when it is not wholly calm.

  • Even when he confines himself to one manner, the result (even if it be in itself decent) is made horrible by vicinity to the work of a rival who has been dabbling in some other manner.

  • There was nothing, by the short way, that was pleasant to any of the five senses.

  • Unless you call Edward company, which he certainly is not, even when he is here, and still more certainly is not when he is away at Naples or in Sicily.

  • Even when I wanted any little sum of money for my personal expenses, I could not obtain it without collision--and I, too, a man whose character it is to govern!

  • I am thankful for beauty, even when 'tis thrown to me like a bone to a dog.

  • He had by this time grown used to being in love; the passion now startled him less even when it tortured him more, and he felt himself adequate to the situation.

  • This is my cousin whom I wish to entertain, even when to do so it were necessary to turn the house out of windows.

  • Yea, even when it commandeth itself, then also must it atone for its commanding.

  • A girdle of spines is their praise unto me: it scratcheth me even when I take it off.

  • And this most upright existence, the ego--it speaketh of the body, and still implieth the body, even when it museth and raveth and fluttereth with broken wings.

  • Even when we went into Bargo, or some of the other country towns, they did not seem so much brighter.

  • There was only one horse that carried himself like that, even when he was pulling double.

  • Father was a man that, even when he was drunk, never let out what he didn't want other people to know.

  • Everywhere there is a class of men who cling with fondness to whatever is ancient, and who, even when convinced by overpowering reasons that innovation would be beneficial, consent to it with many misgivings and forebodings.

  • The French have doubtless shown an energy and an intelligence which, even when misdirected, have justly entitled them to be called a great people.

  • Such a class will doubtless abuse its power: but mental power, even when abused, is still a nobler and better power than that which consists merely in corporeal strength.

  • In the New Testament there was little indeed which, even when perverted by the most disingenuous exposition, could seem to countenance the indulgence of malevolent passions.

  • I was marvelling if their friendship would be allowed to subsist at home, even when they, poor fellows, were lying side by side in their French grave.

  • In effect he did not know what he wished, even when he found that the Queen had decided against going across the sea, and that therefore all the ladies would remain with her at Shene or Windsor.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "even when" 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:
    beloved children; court card; even although; even because; even before; even break; even for; even greater; even now; even number; even then; even thou; even till; even until; even unto; even unto the end; even were; even where; even while; even whilst; even worse; even years; evening parties; guinea pigs; take note; white hands