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Example sentences for "nevertheless"

Lexicographically close words:
neveh; never; nevere; nevermore; nevertheles; neverthelesse; neveu; nevir; nevuh; nevvy
  1. Nevertheless for two months matters went on very smoothly.

  2. Mortimer spoke about his wife and mentioned details of an intimate nature to show how hard up he was; he nevertheless stumped up a 'thin 'un.

  3. This was very flattering, but she was nevertheless obliged to relinquish her plan of explaining to him there and then her desire to learn singing.

  4. Although the question was asked in an intonation of voice affecting to be one of astonishment only, there was nevertheless in it an accent of reproof that was especially irritating to Kate in her present mood.

  5. There were moments when Dick longed for the earth to open; but he nevertheless continued to try to prevent Kate from entering the public-house.

  6. I myself just came in time for it; I saw the last of it, nevertheless I saw it at its prime, for I saw it when it was so strong that it could not live any longer.

  7. I cannot say, but nevertheless I see him plainly.

  8. Nevertheless because Gessler's cap goes up so often nowadays, and so many of us are kneeling to it, it is good and wholesome to hear of a poor Bishop who was brave enough to take a shot at it instead.

  9. This is a hard saying, but nevertheless a simple truth.

  10. Perhaps Katherine did not know that she was wronged; nevertheless God's image was being trodden out of her.

  11. But nevertheless at that moment he was afraid.

  12. Despite his youth and manner, which seemed to her a little affected, there was nevertheless undoubted earnestness in the admiration which he took no pains to conceal.

  13. No doubt I mangled the sentences and confused the ideas sadly, nevertheless Waboose seemed to have no difficulty in understanding me.

  14. The weather was agreeable; neither too hot nor too cold; circumstances around me were conducive to quiet contemplation, and my brain was quite clear, nevertheless I experienced unusual difficulty in the composition of that letter.

  15. This revived me a good deal, nevertheless I restrained myself, feeling convinced that nothing but steady, quiet perseverance would carry me through.

  16. For it is logically possible that even though all known minds be the results of matter in motion, matter in motion may nevertheless itself be the result of an unknown mind.

  17. I say then that although the Will is free to will whatever it wills, nevertheless it would fail in its essential use or object did it refuse to will in accordance with the conditions which are imposed upon its executive capacity.

  18. It may be objected that nevertheless there is a class of men who belong to none of the above three divisions.

  19. Helene; the latter, a man greatly admired and beloved for his brilliant soldierly qualities and gay, amiable disposition, but nevertheless a keen and relentless fighter.

  20. It is nevertheless true that, if his object had been to strike at a moment of unpreparedness and weakness, he could not have timed his operations better.

  21. Nevertheless when, two years later, he asked permission to go with twenty men to make further explorations in the same direction, Colbert refused his request.

  22. Jealousy is then a sort of selfishness, not as base as envy, since higher goods are in question, but which for its consequences is nevertheless one of the most terrible of passions.

  23. Nevertheless their guard was not so strict but that many of the crusaders escaped over the walls,[369] and fled to the Count of Blois at Alexandretta, excusing their pusillanimity by tales of the horrors they had undergone.

  24. Nevertheless that monarch came down to meet Richard, with Tancred, the usurping King of Sicily, who had every thing to fear from the anger of the hasty sovereign of England.

  25. He nevertheless cast himself at the feet of the emperor Alexius,[132] and besought him, with tears and supplications, to send some forces to deliver the few crusaders who had escaped from the scimitar of the Turks.

  26. The pilgrimages nevertheless continued with unremitting zeal; and the number of devotees increased greatly in the tenth and eleventh centuries.

  27. They nevertheless encamped by the side of a beautiful stream, that, flowing on through the rich valley in which they were advancing, proceeded to join itself to the waters of the Sangarius.

  28. Nevertheless there can be no earthly doubt that they were often much more actively engaged, even in the purest days of Chivalry.

  29. Without presuming to assign it, as they do, to the special wrath of Heaven, we may nevertheless believe that the gross and scandalous crimes of the people of Jerusalem greatly accelerated its return to the Moslem domination.

  30. He fed upon neither flesh nor bread, says the same writer, though he permitted himself wine and other aliments, finding nevertheless his pleasure in the greatest abstinence.

  31. Nevertheless it is equally certain that many services which we should consider menial, were performed by the squires of the highest race about the persons of their lords.

  32. Nevertheless they crept out again and looked at him.

  33. What I have stated respecting her is nevertheless derived from the most authentic sources.

  34. I considered it a bold undertaking to attempt any alteration, since every work which comes from such a master-genius should be reverentially handled: I nevertheless ventured to facilitate the execution of the passages in question.

  35. But nevertheless we should not be angry at a person's not doing that for ourselves, or for our friend, which she thinks she ought not to do; and which she has it in her option either to do, or to let it alone.

  36. Your mother has nevertheless prevailed to have your going to your uncle Antony's put off till Thursday: yet owns you deserve not that, or any other favour from her.

  37. This nevertheless is granted you, as no time need to be lost, if you are as generous after the day, as we are condescending before it.

  38. But, if I choose not to go to either of those ladies, nor yet to make him the happiest of men so soon as it is nevertheless his hope that I will, he urges me to withdraw to my own house, and to accept of Lord M.

  39. But nevertheless I am very far from blaming you for your resentment.

  40. The State says to its citizen: you may be unfortunate, even culpably improvident, nevertheless you and your family shall not be left homeless or without means to enable you to retrieve past misfortunes or faults.

  41. In our calculation of the smallest sum a man would require, coming to settle on the land, we made an estimate of a very cheap house indeed, nevertheless one that can be made warmer than many a more expensive one.

  42. Somewhat haughty and unapproachable to others, she nevertheless studied Napoleon's every wish.

  43. Nevertheless he would to-day be remembered only by scholars and students of the Middle Ages were it not for the fact that he inspired the most enduring love that history records.

  44. Though he rejected creeds, he was nevertheless a man of genuine religious feeling.

  45. Nevertheless he had a conviction that he had said something better left unsaid, and that Beverly Carlysle's glance at her brother was almost hostile.

  46. Nevertheless when the postman rang her heart gave a small leap and then stood quite still.

  47. Nevertheless he was conscious of a new uneasiness and anxiety.

  48. Nevertheless he held to Elizabeth more completely than he knew, for the one thing that emerged from his misty recollection of her was that she cared for him.

  49. Nevertheless for a time he held to his earlier conviction, even fought for it.

  50. Nevertheless he knew by that time that through the window lay Dick's only chance of escape.

  51. Nevertheless when she herself admitted a new patient for Dick that afternoon, she had no premonition of trouble.

  52. In a way he was prepared for it but nevertheless he begged for time, for a less unequivocal rejection.

  53. Nevertheless he was of a mind to clear the slate and get some sleep that night, and having taken his prescription and paid for it, he sat back and commenced an apparently casual interrogation.

  54. Such feelings of contempt and determination nevertheless took possession of me that the relish of Picault's magnificence and the charms of his assembly soured to very repulsion.

  55. Nevertheless it is true,--and Biblical," continued the undaunted schoolmaster.

  56. Her heart sank with apprehension, it is true, but nevertheless she ran out along the little path to meet him, in order to know the worst at once.

  57. Yet of those twelve there were several gay and lively girls, as well as women fallen into the decline of life; but nevertheless all were as still as death.

  58. The scene was neither of a very beautiful nor of a very solemn character, but nevertheless there was something very striking in it.

  59. But all birds do that," cavilled Gu-gu, feeling nevertheless a reverent curiosity about those legendary days.

  60. Nevertheless when, as she was stepping into the dogcart, his friendly help came necessarily to the fore again, she reverted to her dignified resentment.

  61. The front, still being forced slowly back, nevertheless held on to every available position with grim tenacity and in the face of heavy losses.

  62. This, for persons who, if not in abstract theory, nevertheless in actual practice refuse to admit that the bourgeoisie has any rights whatever, was a matter easily remedied.

  63. His arrest was nevertheless the signal for some adverse criticism even from Majority Socialists whose class-conscious solidarity was greater than their intelligence.

  64. If an agreement between the National Cabinet and the National Council is not reached, the National Cabinet may nevertheless introduce the bill, but must state the dissent of the National Council.

  65. The Russians nevertheless tried to come, but were stopped at the frontier.

  66. The revolution of 1848 in Prussia, while it failed to produce all that had been hoped for by those responsible for it, nevertheless resulted in what were for those times far-reaching reforms.

  67. Some advance had, it is true, been made along these lines since the Napoleonic wars, but the events of 1871 nevertheless found the great mass of the people without political tutelage or experience.

  68. There were already many Socialists who, although out of sympathy with the attitude of their party, had nevertheless hesitated to break with it.

  69. These four tales, admirable as they are in breadth, are nevertheless essentially reflective.

  70. Nevertheless he went back for a while, not now as a farmhand, but apparently as a boarder, though he was made a trustee of the association and chairman of the committee on finance.

  71. This is, of course, the natural overstatement of an author whose work has gone from him and seems less vital because he has outlived it; but nevertheless it contains sound judgment as to the limitations of his art.

  72. Though he slay me, yet will I wait for him: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.

  73. Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, That he might make his mighty power to be known.

  74. Nevertheless he regarded their distress, When he heard their cry: And he remembered for them his covenant, And repented according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

  75. As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications When I cried unto thee.

  76. Nevertheless the hundreds of tribes throughout the peninsula preserved a feeling of national unity, which was greatly strengthened by Mohammed's appearance on the scene.

  77. Give examples of peoples widely different in blood who nevertheless speak the same language.

  78. Nevertheless their work lived on and sowed in England and Scotland the seeds of the Reformation.

  79. Nevertheless the Swiss form a patriotic and united nation.

  80. Nevertheless ties existed, not of common government, but of common interests and ideals, which helped to unite the scattered sections of the Greek world.

  81. The most prosaic of men in the pursuit of his ordinary duties, it nevertheless subtly appealed to some half-dormant streak of vanity to have his profession taken romantically when there was no serious work on hand.

  82. Nevertheless he strolled down to the leading wine-shop after lunch and returned with his purchase modestly draped in the light summer overcoat that he carried on his arm.


  83. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nevertheless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.