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Example sentences for "ever lived"

  • They were good-hearted girls as ever lived, but they were human, like the rest of us, and women, like some of the rest of us.

  • Our Landlady is as good a creature as ever lived.

  • You're a good soul as ever lived, but a great fool into the bargain.

  • As great an old smuggler as ever lived,' said the other; 'and a pretty penny he's made of it.

  • We are putting cases of men as upright as ever lived, differing on theological questions of the highest importance and avowing that difference, are yet priests and prelates of the same church.

  • No writer, perhaps, ever lived, whose talents so precisely qualified him to write the history of the great naval warrior.

  • We shall not be suspected of regarding either the politics or the theology of Collier with partiality; but we believe him to have been as honest and courageous a man as ever lived.

  • Not a farden, and wouldn’t take un; he bin a good maister to me as ever lived.

  • So as I warned un about thic Sergeant; the artfullest man as ever lived, Nancy.

  • If Lily Norris isn't just the most provoking child that ever lived!

  • I was so called after an old Lancashire relation of mine, as worthy a man as ever lived, Mr. Ottiwell Wood, of Liverpool.

  • It is Roger Leigh, as kind-hearted a man as ever lived, with an amiable and benevolent smile ever playing upon and irradiating his huge countenance.

  • A shrewd, sagacious man of business is he, as ever lived; and many were the stories which used to be told of his sayings and doings and somewhat sharp practice in his money transactions.

  • One would think that instead of desiring to please as excellent a man as ever lived, her one object was to annoy and disgust him.

  • Following every uncertain step, with her nose as close as if she had been a spur upon either boot, and yet escaping contact as a dog alone can do, was his favourite little black spaniel Jess, as loving a creature as ever lived.

  • Had he ever lived there, he hazily wondered?

  • Now Ned Hayward, I have endeavoured to impress upon the reader's mind, was a brave, bold, determined fellow as ever lived.

  • Bill was as kind-hearted a man as ever lived.

  • The little boy ran up to him directly; for Tim is very fond of him, as well he maybe, for he's a kind, good gentleman as ever lived.

  • Who was the greatest man that ever lived, Grandfather?

  • Grant was the greatest general that ever lived.

  • John Trott acted for your good in leaving, and I should not have saddled on you myself, the greatest failure among men that ever lived.

  • She is the most patient little mother that ever lived.

  • They all say, judging from her looks, that John's wife was as decent a country girl as ever lived, and that if her father had met you the day he came loaded for bear he would have put daylight through you.

  • I have a great regard for him, I assure you: a gentleman-like, good sort of fellow as ever lived.

  • He is as good-natured a fellow as ever lived; a little of a rattle; but that will recommend him to your sex, I believe: and how do you like the rest of the family?

  • You would not wish to disappoint and mortify the Coles, I am sure, sir; friendly, good sort of people as ever lived, and who have been your neighbours these ten years.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ever lived" 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:
    ever beheld; ever dear; ever done; ever existed; ever lived; ever more; ever said; ever saw; ever seen; ever since; ever stepped; ever they; ever wrote; everlasting covenant; everlasting doors; everlasting happiness; everlasting life; everlasting love; everlasting punishment; every man; everybody knew; everything considered; everything was; gallinaceous birds; must endeavour; separate school