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Example sentences for "not even"

  • Not even Peter of Blentz would countenance such abhorrent treatment of a prisoner.

  • Barney Custer had never been nearer death than at that moment--not even when he faced the firing squad before the factory wall in Burgova.

  • No man, not even my king, may speak such words to a Von der Tann.

  • I couldn't think in sentences--not even in words.

  • He went up, crouching, ready for anything, without a footfall, not even causing a hideous creak; and gained the top in safety.

  • She had no voice--not for song, not for speech, not even for a monosyllable.

  • No one else knows the truth--not even Mrs. Brindley, though she's intelligent.

  • Never, not even in the height of the tempest, had I heard their song with greater awe.

  • Fifty years ago you would have brought my heart into my mouth; and now you do not even tempt me.

  • It is very pleasant to stand here talking; and life is so short and insecure that I would not hurry away from any pleasure--no, not even from so mild a one as this.

  • And all day long and all night the wind bore the ship on, blowing fresh and strong; but when dawn rose there was not even a breath of air.

  • Never was I one of these idle boasters such as other men are--not even aforetime, when I dwelt in my own country.

  • Not once, not even in nay dreams did I forebode this, that the flight of Phrixus would bring me woe.

  • And when Chalciope heard the strange tale from the handmaid, not even so did she disregard it.

  • For ye could not escape an evil doom from the rocks, not even if Argo were of iron.

  • So no one, not even Etta, suspected what she was going through.

  • And she resolved that she would not even endanger it ever again.

  • And it seemed to him that he was in a dream; there was nowhere a suggestion of reality--not of its prose, not even of its poetry.

  • Susan looked helplessly round the street, saw nothing, not even eager, curious faces pressed against many a window pane, saw only a desolate waste.

  • Not even in a velvet and spangle costume--Low neck, short sleeves, with blond wig and paint and powder?

  • It is not in the House of Lords; it is not in the Civil Service; it is not in the Government offices; it is not even in the huge and disproportionate monopoly of the English land.

  • It is not I; it is not even a particular class of journalists or jesters who make jokes about the matters which are of most awful import; it is the whole human race.

  • It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions when he is not even ready to wear a wreath round his head for them.

  • Another week gone by, and no news from Jonathan, not even to Mr. Hawkins, from whom I have heard.

  • I am not even concerned in His especially spiritual doings.

  • This thing is not human, not even a beast.

  • There is not even a toilet glass on my table, and I had to get the little shaving glass from my bag before I could either shave or brush my hair.

  • Not even in the Sierra have I ever made the acquaintance of mountains more rigidly inaccessible.

  • Not even in the quest for gold has a more ruthless, desperate energy been developed.

  • Not even a palm tree would seem more out of place here.

  • Not even in the great maple woods of Canada have I seen trees either as large or with so much striking, picturesque character.

  • Not even in the cool, fresh glens of the mountains will you find these favorite flowers, though some of these desert ranges almost rival the Sierra in height.

  • I am not cultivated, I am not even educated; I know nothing about history, or art, or foreign tongues, or any other learned matters.

  • Yes, I contradict myself; that shows you that I am not even intelligent.

  • It is not money, it is not even brains--though no doubt yours are excellent.

  • Dear me, that detail is LOST SIGHT OF, is not even referred to, the fact that it started out as a motive is entirely forgotten!

  • What--not even a degrading and heart-chilling system of beliefs?

  • It has a straw through it; you pull this out, and it leaves a flue, otherwise there would be no draught, not even as much as there is to a nail.

  • I had no gun or anything, not even a ball bat.

  • Of course, I didn't tell anyone, not even Gladys.

  • Again I looked all up and down the railroad but there wasn't another tie nor a piece of lumber--not even a fence post.

  • Not stunned, not even bewildered, while Wall Street went mad, Daylight withdrew from the field to think it over.

  • Winter had been long months in riveting them, and not in a day were they to be broken, not even by the thunderbolt of spring.

  • The wound healed, there was no hernia, and at the time of report the girl was conscious of no disturbance, not even a headache.

  • He wasn't the same after we lost you, nobody was, not even Bingo.

  • Not even for a moment," Polly answered, with a decided shake of her head.

  • I don't allow no man to talk to me like that, not even my parson.

  • Not even Bara, the deer, with his great ears could have guessed from any sound that Mbonga was near; but the black was not stalking Bara; he was stalking man, and so he sought only to avoid noise.

  • None need you fear, not even Numa, the lion, for Tarzan is a mighty fighter.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not even" 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:
    compound interest; lay the; not even; not far; not half; not having; not know; not known; not mean; not the same thing; not want; not yet; note circulation; note paper; noted above; nothing better; nothing else but the; nothing further; nothing should; nothing worth; nothing wrong; notice the; notwithstanding the; notwithstanding this; sent abroad; these things