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Example sentences for "ever been"

  • At that she would draw her cold hands across her hot brow, and wonder why she should think so malignantly of one who had been so kind--so much kinder than anybody else had ever been to her, although she had no claim upon him.

  • But she knew quite well that the woman who was chosen by Richard would be loved more beautifully than she had ever been.

  • You see, you get very evasive if you've ever been in a position like mine.

  • Mr. Boncassen would discuss republicanism generally, and the Duke would explain that theory of monarchy as it prevails in England, which but very few Americans have ever been made to understand.

  • Have I ever been haughty, unless in my own defence?

  • Had he ever been enabled to make the same request to Mabel Grex, or had she answered him when he did half make it in a serious manner, he would have been true to her.

  • It is by no means improbable that this superstition, the most irrational and the most unsocial into which Protestant Christianity has ever been corrupted by human prejudices and passions, may still linger in a few obscure farmhouses.

  • Howe moved that an address should be presented to the King, requesting that all persons who had ever been impeached by the Commons might be dismissed from His Majesty's counsels and presence.

  • Footnote 796: I am not aware that this lampoon has ever been printed.

  • In truth, of all the intellectual weapons which have ever been wielded by man, the most terrible was the mockery of Voltaire.

  • The plays of Shakspeare were better acted, better edited, and better known than they had ever been.

  • Ain't ever been out at night before since I was an orphan.

  • Surely no more dissimilar men than these have ever been friends, and that the friendship was sometimes misjudged was one of the clouds on William Wetherell's horizon.

  • She wondered that he had allowed it, for they said that he was the only one who had ever been known to break the Judge's will.

  • I listened for a quarter of an hour, and then I got my coat and went home--went home to try and see a way through just about the toughest proposition I'd ever been up against.

  • Tis the hardest proposition I've ever been up against, and sure I don't know what to do at all.

  • This morning he was perfectly normal, and just as cheerful and loving as he'd ever been.

  • I think I was mair nervous aboot my first appearance in New York than I'd ever been in ma life before.

  • I've picked up business for my songs everywhere I've ever been.

  • Happier than you've ever been in your life?

  • I don't know what it is, but I've never felt like it before, and it makes me more frightened than I've ever been.

  • Had he ever been happy at The Roundabout except during the first year, and afterwards when Stephen came?

  • Her little figure looked helpless and appealing in its deep black; she was prettier than she had ever been in her life before.

  • I'm afraid we are awake--wider awake than we've ever been in our happy life these last three years.

  • Has it ever been right in any of the great settled controversies which are now beyond the reach of Party argument?

  • I confess that I cannot, nor have I ever been able to find anybody that could do so to my satisfaction.

  • It was a great year of changes all around and the League teams taken as a whole were stronger than they had ever been before.

  • Has it ever been said of him that he sent others to seize the booty, and stayed at home to think how it should be spent?

  • Has it ever been said of him that he took less share than his due of your danger, and more of your guineas?

  • Gentlemen, has it ever been said of Paul Lovett that he heard of a prize and forgot to tell you of his news?

  • Just because it's so make-shifty, this is the most interesting kindergarten I've ever been in.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ever been" 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:
    contemporary chronicler; ever before; ever being; ever dear; ever devoted; ever existed; ever knew; ever ready; ever since; ever were; ever will; evergreen trees; everlasting doors; everlasting glory; everlasting happiness; everlasting punishment; everlasting righteousness; everything considered; everything else; everywhere present; given substance; local affairs; nothing for; one instance; thou only; would only