Word Finder - never

definition

At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance.

example

I finally finished, and I never want to do that again.

definition

Not at any other time; not on any other occasion; not previously.

definition

Negative particle (used to negate verbs in the simple past tense; also used absolutely).

example

I never saw him today.

I've never thought about it before.

I never saw such small pigs before.

I've never heard him.

They had never been anywhere else overnight together.

He might never say anything to Jonathan about it, but Jonathan would know in other ways how he felt.

I never would have guessed.

I never thought I could do it.

Still, as a child she had never thought about it.

He spoke of the birds as his little brothers of the air, and he could never bear to see them harmed.

Twenty-five years ago, I had never seen a mobile phone.

I wish we had never come here.

But never had she felt so grieved for him or so much afraid of losing him.

Never have I found in the greenhouses of the North such heart-satisfying roses as the climbing roses of my southern home.

Alex had never mentioned him.

That last evening was so delightful that the boy will never forget it as long as he lives.

That is never bad.

I doubt that... but you never know.

She went quickly over uninteresting details, and never nagged me with questions to see if I remembered the day-before-yesterday's lesson.

He had never gone beyond the beautiful gardens that surrounded his father's palace.

They admired the book very much, for they had never seen anything like it.

I never thought of him as being anything else but a salesman until I saw him tonight, but he seems so... comfortable now.

It was the middle of the day, and Alex never took a nap.

He never even said goodbye.

She is never still a moment.

His father died shortly after Alex was born, so I never met either of them.

Princess Mary could not quite make out what he had said, but from his look it was clear that he had uttered a tender caressing word such as he had never used to her before.

Other than the one time he had lost his temper with her, she had never known him to be anything but gentle.

Alex would never cheat - not on someone he respected and admired more than anyone he knew.

I never meant to hurt you.

They had never heard of Chilon, for his name was hardly known outside of his own country.

She would never have considered back-talking her parents.

You never see it coming.

I never realized what a wonderful people the Japanese are until I saw their most interesting exhibit.

Miss Keller will never be able, I believe, to speak loud without destroying the pleasant quality and the distinctness of her words, but she can do much to make her speech clearer.

Alex was uneasy because he and his biological father had never seen eye to eye.

Our greatest Champion, Overman-Anu, once climbed the spiral stairway and fought nine days with the Gargoyles before he could escape them and come back; but he could never be induced to describe the dreadful creatures, and soon afterward a bear caught him and ate him up.

It was a good place for a fly, and I never thought of spoiling your picture.

They will take time to write a great big forum post just for you, a total stranger they will never meet.

I've never had a maid.

Most of the boys she dated would never have thought of practicing the age-old custom of walking around the car to open her door, or guiding her through the crowd with a gentle hand on one elbow.

He's never done that before.

Say you never saw him...

I wish I'd never started it!

Those things were never necessary for prosperity and even less so in the Internet age.

Never would she have guessed such a lavish home existed in these rustic mountains.

I never realized how lonely my mother was until you came.

A body could get lost out here and never be found.

If there had been discord between her parents, she had never seen any indication.

I never asked you to.

I'm doing this once but never again.