Never was such a vast inheritance so quickly reduced to nothing, and to less than nothing.
Never was an aristocracy more liberal, more humane, and more thoroughly converted to useful reforms;[2214] many of them remain so under the knife of the guillotine.
Never was so much disintegrated matter, less capable of resistance, offered to hands undertaking to mold it.
I never was in Robinson Crusoe's Island, yet I frequently return there.
The meat-man kept no books but his memory, and it never was at fault.
Starback, the second bird, never was heard of again.
Often he was late in returning; he never was first, and sometimes when he came back hours behind the rest, it was plain that he was neither hungry nor thirsty, sure signs that he was a loiterer by the way.
Never was a man called to lead in war who had so little of the martial in his character, and yet so earnest a purpose to rise to the emergency.
Never was a commercial nation less prepared to defend itself against depredations than the United States of America in this year 1807.
Never was a state paper better calculated to wither martial spirit.
I forgive Hank all the orneriness he done me, and they was a lot of it, as is becoming unto a church member, which he never was.
Well, sir, I never was so surprised in all my life before.
He never wasso good a business man as he thought he was, Doctor Kirby wasn't.
Never was a man in better mental and spiritual condition for such an experiment.
Never was I permitted to cross the northern frontier.
Never was I permitted to put foot to a sampan on the sea.
Never was there so model an institution of detention.
Because I never was, when I was poor,' said Mr Boffin.
Never was an obstinate person yet, who would own to the word!
I smell the white and the pink May in the hedges, and all sorts of flowers that I never was among.
You must go to Shiny Wall, and through the white gate that never was opened; and then you will come to Peacepool, and Mother Carey's Haven, where the good whales go when they die.
I never was made, my child; and I shall go for ever and ever; for I am as old as Eternity, and yet as young as Time.
I never wasin a better place or humour than I am at present for writing on this subject.
I believe he has as good a heart as any in the kingdom; and I declare and protest to you I never was so shocked in my life, as when it all burst forth.
I never was at his house; but they say it is a sweet pretty place.
Sometimes I thought it had been--but it never was.
Never was a monarch a greater enemy to economy; he laughed heartily when he was plundered and he spent a great deal in order to have occasion to laugh often.
But two things fall to be noticed: In the first place, I never was in actual pain; and in the second, I was never funny.
Never was such a disagreeable task, but the thing had to be told.
Never was on Cape Breton," our driver had said; "hope I never shall be.
I never was on a sea-steamer yet that there was not one of these men.
He would do this always exactly in this way; he never was content to stay in the chamber if we compelled him to go upstairs and through the door.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "never was" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
