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Example sentences for "would ever"

  • Who could have thought that any one wearing the 'shadowed livery of the burnished sun' would ever dare to be an applicant?

  • He expressed great regret at my treatment, hoped it would be bettered, assured me that he would ever be a friend and treat me as a gentleman should.

  • She deemed it equally impossible, that he would ever dream of returning, standing, as he must now do, in the danger of an infamous punishment.

  • Mr. Hazlewood was in appearance a dried-up likeness of his son, and Guy often wondered if he would ever present to the world this desiccated exterior.

  • There was nothing to do but sit in the nursery and wonder if it would ever stop.

  • Had it sprung out of some impulse to postpone for a while a joy that must be the sharpest he would ever know?

  • You could not think I would ever go far away from you.

  • If it were for her good, do you think I would ever interfere?

  • The Legislature, he said, had no right to vest this power, except in case of war; nor did he believe it would ever be exercised, if given.

  • With regard to a corporation, he was against it at present, and he did not think it would ever be necessary.

  • And, wondering whether he would ever work at it again, he redamped the cloths and wrapped it carefully.

  • There was something appalling in the utter helplessness of that position, and the uncertainty as to whether it would ever come to an end.

  • He was returning to the feelings and companionship that he knew were the most deeply satisfying spiritually and bodily he would ever have.

  • That is more than I would ever ask of you.

  • It was scarcely a sufficient expression of what he felt, but Coulthurst had his strong points, and his daughter knew it was very unlikely he would ever allude to the subject again.

  • If you fancy I would ever be willing to lose sight of either of you you are doing me a wrong.

  • He was in chronic ill-health, and his stupendous exertions made it unlikely he would ever be better.

  • So Richard had to muddle along as he best might, while his good relatives doubted whether he would ever be able to do anything at all, until by good fortune he tried Theo.

  • He contributed nothing, and, considering his headstrong temper, only a courageous or reckless man would have prophesied that he would ever be able to contribute anything.

  • Though, indeed, he knew his brother too well to imagine that he would ever dream of sacrificing his life, even for the person he loved best at the moment.

  • I want you to tell me, first, if in your opinion it would ever be right to go back upon what you call a solemn intention?

  • She wondered if he would ever come to England again.

  • He speculated whether he would ever be able to touch beef again.

  • No woman, however cruel, would ever knowingly be so cruel as she has been.

  • No other girl (he thought, in the simplicity of his inexperience) would ever talk as she talked.

  • Nor did we need a squire, inasmuch as Spond, the great hound, would ever follow us.

  • Thomas Brackett Reed followed with what proved to be the last speech he would ever make, as it was also one of his best.

  • He returned to San Francisco and gave one more lecture, the last he would ever give in California.

  • Clemens himself declared that sooner or later he would pay the other fifty cents, dollar for dollar, though I believe there was no one besides himself and his wife and me who believed he would ever be able to do it.

  • She had begun to doubt whether it would ever be given to her to love,--to love as her friend Janet loved Frank Fenwick.

  • If there was more of love in the world than this, she did not think that it would ever come in her way.

  • It was but a tangled skein of life that Motley's book showed us at twenty-five, and older men might well have doubted whether it would ever be wound off in any continuous thread.

  • She addressed him by name, tenderly as if he had been a dear brother; she saw on his face that hers were to be the last kind words he would ever hear.

  • She only knew that there had been a terrible scene, and that he had gone, leaving it uncertain whether he would ever return.

  • Philip Jocelyn looked forward to this race with a peculiar interest, for it was to be the last he would ever ride--the very last: he had given this solemn promise to Laura, who had in vain tried to persuade him against even this race.

  • Was there any hope that she would ever be my wife?

  • I should scarcely think it likely he would ever be called upon to atone for them.

  • This life was the only one he knew, his mind and heart the only guides he would ever have in it.

  • And what did it matter, if he lost the only woman he would ever love?

  • William found in the aging and alienated recluse a friend, and the closest thing to a father that he would ever know.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would ever" 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:
    had taken; would always; would become; would cause; would consider; would continue; would grant; would have been the; would have given anything; would keep; would lead; would meet; would needs; would never; would not; would probably; would say; would show; would start; would submit; would suffice; would suggest; would take too long; would tell; would try; would undertake