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Example sentences for "never gave"

  • But what do you mean when you say you never gave in?

  • He admired those austere pious men who never gave a thought to their income.

  • And the Strasbourg Jesuits, although very zealous, never gave a thought to observing Julien, who with his cross and his blue tail-coat looked like a young military man, very much engrossed in his own personal appearance.

  • He had, moreover, a further advantage over other dandies, in as much as once he had finished dressing he never gave a further thought to his appearance.

  • From the age of 9 to the age of 21, when he left school, he never gave women a thought sexually, though he always liked their society.

  • Though I saw many sights that a child should not have seen, while running about wild, I never gave them a thought; all animals great and small from rabbits to men had the same customs, all natural and right.

  • Never gave a man a chance to close with him.

  • If that man swore that he never gave him or any other man authority to take care of his money, he swore what was false.

  • As for clothing, he never gave me a new hat for every day, nor a Sunday rag in his life.

  • He never gave me," said Ordee, "a half a dollar in his life.

  • He never gave me any money in his life," said Sol.

  • What made me leave was because I worked for him all my life-time and he never gave me but two dollars and fifteen cents in all his life.

  • You will get the royal crown of the King of the Young that he never gave to any one under the sun.

  • And there lies the secret of his genius: he never gave up anything, nor ever acknowledged himself beaten.

  • This frail, sickly Guynemer, twice refused by the army because of feebleness of constitution, never gave up.

  • You know I never gave you a word of advice which the whole world could not hear.

  • He never gave me any reason to think he would propose for me; nor ever made the slightest attempt to engage my affections.

  • God help me, but I was so famished I never gave a thought to consequences.

  • When they were alone he called him "my boy," an endearment he never gave another.

  • He never gave a more striking exhibition of his control over the powers of his intellect than this.

  • Since a child he never gave me what you would call a real heartache.

  • Henry Irving never grew tired of a part, never ceased to work at it, just as he never gave up the fight against his limitations.

  • He never gave a public reading without first going through the entire play at home--at home, that is to say, in a miserably uncomfortable hotel.

  • He just said that he would not give it, as he never gave any.

  • No, I never got it, because it was a thing he never gave, and we never asked for it.

  • I already explained that we never gave allotments.

  • So I kept back in my teacher's place; and as he never asked my name, so I never gave it.

  • I never gave Ginevra a minute's or a farthing's credit for disinterestedness.

  • Paul; he never gave a lesson in the third division (containing the least advanced pupils), that she did not occasion in him a sharp conflict between antagonistic impressions.

  • Whether we knew these things or not, we never gave a thought to them; all we thought of was one another, and the rest might think what they liked of us.

  • I have been so accustomed to run errands for her, that I never gave a thought to the difference at first, and having done it once, I could not say ‘no’ the next time.

  • And I was beginning to love him now, which as a boy I had done but little, inasmuch as he never gave way to me.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "never gave" 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:
    actual operation; never been; never did; never even; never expected; never fail; never failed; never forgive; never forgot; never gave; never knew; never lost; never loved; never marry; never occurred; never saw; never see; never think; never tired; never told; never used; never want; never would; never would cry old; that which; wire basket