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Example sentences for "ever was"

  • When he came to Mrs. Stowe, he was as large as he ever was, and apparently as old as he ever became.

  • I can't con-ceive of any spotted Painter in the bush, as ever was so riddled through and through as you will be, I bet.

  • I would rather pass my life here with you, and go out daily, working for our bread, than I would have the greatest fortune that ever was told, and be the greatest lady that ever was honoured.

  • So Clennam thought, when he sometimes observed him of an evening looking over the models and drawings, and consoling himself by muttering with a sigh as he put them away again, that the thing was as true as it ever was.

  • Here, let me get firm hold of you; you know you are as weak as ever was a rat!

  • Get a broom or something of that sort, and dress it up with a mask and wings: and he is as scared over it now as he ever was.

  • This will do more than the best lecture that ever was delivered.

  • Cibber grants it to be a better poem of its kind than any other that ever was written"--Pope cor.

  • This will do more than the best lecture which ever was delivered.

  • I loved him dearly, and well I might, most kind he ever was to me, and I felt all his excellent qualities, his manners, his delightful temper.

  • Edgeworthstown; and I do declare I am as much interested about it as I ever was in writing anything in my life.

  • This Bennet's Hotel, where we are lodged, is as good as any in London or Edinburgh, and cleaner than almost any I ever was in, with a waiter the perfection of intelligence.

  • Will D'Avenant the son of the brightest and best poet that ever was, is, or will be?

  • But I'll make you as spruce as ever was a canting rogue of your party.

  • The nature of the weapon, though it by no means puts the awkward upon a level with the skilful, puts him more nearly so than he ever was before.

  • In such circumstances, the wonder is, not that he was sometimes obliged to yield, but that he ever was able to resist.

  • I--I don't remember that I ever was," he answered guardedly.

  • I feel that I am better and freer from sin than I ever was yet.

  • He is on an ostrich farm in Natal, Jenny, well, and all that he ever was, and more too.

  • I know my father will be in a greater rage than he ever was in his life, and I won't go sneaking about.

  • I know now how unworthy I ever was to think of her as mine.

  • The rain is as contrary as I ever was," she said.

  • I'll warrant it's th' graidelest one as ever was in this world.

  • As much in earnest as I ever was in my life," replied Julia.

  • The Lord gin me two gals, and then he sent me as noble a boy as ever was, I don’t care where t’other comes from.

  • The Saviour; He who once wept at the grave of Lazarus will be more to you than I ever was, or ever can be," said Fanny.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ever was" 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:
    borne away; ever after; ever beheld; ever being; ever come; ever dear; ever devoted; ever going; ever known; ever liveth; ever made; ever met; ever saw; ever were; ever witnessed; ever wrote; ever you; evergreen tree; every man; everybody knew; everybody seemed; everything will; indirect object; little child; party politics; warp threads