adjective
definition
Occurring at any time, occurring even but once during a timespan.
adverb
definition
Always, frequently, forever.
example
It was ever thus.
definition
Continuously, constantly, all the time (for the complete duration).
definition
At any time.
example
He's back and better than ever.
definition
In any way.
example
How can I ever get there in time?
definition
As intensifier following an interrogative word.
example
Did I ever!
Examples of ever in a Sentence
I don't think she was ever afraid of him.
No. Do they ever have a formal dinner?
Haven't you ever made a mistake?
You're the sweetest person I've ever met.
His life was such that no man could ever say, "Ben Franklin has wronged me."
Have I ever lied to you?
You're the first girl who has ever accepted me for what I am.
Do you think I would ever harm you?
It will make us all profoundly wise, wiser than the wisest person who has ever lived.
Don't you ever wish you had someone to share your troubles with?
Yeah, who'd ever know we were engaged?
Would she ever reach the point that she felt comfortable about spending the money he had earned before they met?
I don't know if I could ever love a man.
No one in her family ever questioned her innocence.
Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever stop seeing that.
I'm not ever going to know them if I never meet them, am I?
Have you ever killed anyone?
Was he ever going to come to the point?
I am now going to the war, the greatest war there ever was, and I know nothing and am fit for nothing.
It might have been something she would suspect if she had ever seen him in the pool.
Could she ever truly love any man?
Ol' Woodie was the greatest pitcher ever.
He repeated every injustice he had ever inflicted on her.
I don't remember ever feeling underdressed, though.
Were victims ever suspicious of their attackers beforehand?
Did it ever occur to you to ask what I thought about this?
Don't put yourselves at risk, ever.
But as Dean hung up the phone he had no illusions about the pledges ever coming to fruition.
I want it to be more, but that might take time, if we ever get there.
More important, would there ever be a time when he stopped hiding things from her?
In fact, until the death of her family, she rarely ever dreamed – or at least didn't remember them.
Inside was the most beautiful gown she'd ever seen in a mysterious shade of dark blue sprinkled with silver sequins.
Didn't you ever get it?
I told her I could never be that mean—I'd never, ever hit one of my children.
It was the most Fred O'Connor had ever said about his past, but the conversation was over.
God love him—he had followed the Boston Red Sox for sixty years and couldn't even dream of ever being there himself.
Best the Red Sox ever had.
The best anyone ever had.
Nobody I talked to ever heard of Dawkins, but Mrs. Worthington said she remembers reading about this Rowland guy.
Nowadays, you'd be scared someone would kidnap a child but in the old days, no one ever thought of that stuff.
That's the silliest thing you've ever said!
What ever happened to Bird Song's 'mind our own business' philosophy?
She wore an impish look, high cheekbones and the only lavender eyes Dean had ever seen.
I kicked in more coins to our marriage than Paul ever did.
Did Paul ever talk about working a mine up there?
Not even on his collar—on his shorts, where there's absolutely no reason for lipstick to ever, ever be.
Their joint realization that no one would ever speak with Billy Langstrom again was sobering.
The land's as pretty as any place God ever created but that doesn't make it worth a lot of dollars and cents.
Maria, ever smiling, joined them at the table, looking from one to the other as they spoke, understanding little but enjoying their company and thrilled with their praise.
God, did that ever come out of left field!