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Example sentences for "never having"

  • I have to trust mainly to my memory, never having kept a journal.

  • There seems to be something providential in my experience so far in never having had to fight with them.

  • I would rather it had been different for I knew good works had been done by others but as they have placed their names on record as never having sustained me I will have to let them take their choice.

  • Many times, when thinking of this old man and others of the district, I have cried like a child, never having seen, from that day to the present, any disposition manifested to continue a mission in that part of the country.

  • The strange greetings over, old Jolyon seated himself in a wicker chair, and his two grandchildren, one on each side of his knees, looked at him silently, never having seen so old a man.

  • The youth looked at him curiously, never having seen a Forsyte with a beard, and vanished.

  • But the elder, who is ten times uglier, is mad with rage at never having had a lover.

  • I was a good deal puzzled by the effects of this powder, never having heard of the like before, and as soon as I left the countess I went to an apothecary to enquire about it, but Mr. Drench was no wiser than I.

  • This Mancia was a celebrated Jacobin (or Dominican) exorcist, who enjoyed the reputation of never having failed to cure a girl possessed of the demon.

  • There were the aristocratic chambermaid and porter, who had the air of never having waited on any but the first families.

  • We confess that, never having seen a woman's private diary (except those that have been published), we do not share the popular impression as to their tenuity implied in the question put to us.

  • I feel like a great lord, never having had a house before.

  • With respect to the expenses of girls of easy virtue, I had no retrenchment to make; never having in the whole course of my life applied so much as a farthing to that use except once, of which I shall soon have occasion to speak.

  • I once told Billy about this, and he was very much interested, never having heard it before, and said he'd like to know that man, and asked me if I could tell him any more things like that.

  • I was taught it, I forgot it, never having understood it.

  • Never having surrendered to its deceits, I know not if hope be aught but a bleeding spur, driving man towards a future nothingness.

  • As for himself, if a God exists he will go straight to Heaven, never having hurt a fly.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "never having" 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:
    both because; but they were not; each town; fare thee; never appeared; never applied; never asked; never dreamed; never found; never had; never heard; never hearn; never know; never knowed; never leave; never like; never liked; never occurs; never remember; never saw; never shall; never trust; never used; never will; never would cry old; never wrote