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Example sentences for "never came"

  • It flew into the tent one day when High-feather had his back turned, and began to whisper into the Star-wife's ear; but it never came to trouble her again.

  • And though they fought and lashed their tails and whimpered, And kicked with might and main, To Heaven's Meadow, bright with sun and flowers They never came again.

  • T was a tortoise, All yellow and black: He walked slowly away, And he never came back.

  • I felt so sure of him, I would have staked my life upon his coming--that is ten years ago--but he never came.

  • In fact we should have welcomed an infantry attack, but it never came--only artillery long bowls.

  • But it never came, for the French made no progress; so we did nothing except dig proper trenches and strengthen our positions.

  • Naturally enough it never came, for with numbers of friends of their own the Nixons did not think of the lonely, silent boy whose claim upon their hospitality was so small.

  • He expected that presently she would take the opportunity to say something to him; he thought she would ask why he never came to one of her tables now, and he had prepared an answer charged with all the loathing he felt for her.

  • I never came in contact with him in the war of the Rebellion, nor did he render any very conspicuous service in his high rank.

  • I sold enough lots to make up another five hundred dollars, and let the balance go; for the city of "New York of the Pacific" never came to any thing.

  • It had spoiled her father's life, and Daphne Wing's; never came when it was wanted; always came when it was not.

  • Sooner than that she would rather--yes--rather he never came back!

  • He never came back; killed in that first Afghan business.

  • There was Val going to the university; he never came to see him now.

  • There was some talk of meat on Sundays, but it never came to anything.

  • She waited--waited a weary time; and he never came back.

  • The sun set and the dark rose out of the ground, and the forest became full of whispers, but he never came.

  • Ma Pa Da waited and waited for him, but he never came back.

  • But now many months had passed, and he never came.

  • Anne sometimes fancied she discerned him at a distance, but he never came.

  • He was invited to Kellynch Hall; he was talked of and expected all the rest of the year; but he never came.

  • It never came into my mind, often as I saw them together.

  • He never came to the town over the fields as the young people were in the way of doing, and he always turned into the High-street from the turnpike road at a lower point than this.

  • He was seen in Portie not three months since, and he never came near me.

  • It never came off, owing to good breeding; but Mr. Challis noted to himself that it would have been statuesque had it done so.

  • He never came to church, and I wasn't sorry.

  • It never came off, though, for the dream never got as far as the kiss, to Jim's bitter disappointment.

  • When Tom first went away I used to think that, if he never came back, there wouldn't be anything worth living for, ever again.

  • But suppose he never came back," cut in Arline, her usual tact deserting her.

  • There were ever so many girls at Overton College during the six years that I spent there, whom I never came to know really well.

  • The dislike was evidently mutual, for while he never came in my way, I knew he made fun of me, as he did of every one else, and I believe he had an ill word for whatever I did or attempted.

  • What evidence have you,” I asked, “that your father is dead, other than that he never came back?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "never came" 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:
    give himself; never appeared; never beheld; never did; never found; never gave; never give; never having; never heard; never heed; never heerd; never intended; never known; never like; never loved; never marry; never mentioned; never once; never remember; never shall; never speak; never take; never told; never want; never would cry old; pressure gauge