How to use "ever" in a sentence

'How will I ever get out of here?' I ask myself.

No man in your world can ever see these things

"Captain, you can't expect us to stay on this ship for ever!"

No one who enters the Nautilus ever leaves

I saw things that no man from my world will ever see

'Do you ever play football?' he asked.

She was the prettiest thing that I ever saw.

The worst night that I've ever known

And for the first time ever, I knew that I was a real idiot.

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination

Think if you can, of a single instance in which a plainly written provision of the Constitution has ever been denied

But no organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration

The fugitive-slave clause of the Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself

I ask further, is it unconstitutional for me to say to the British Government "I refuse to serve you"? Is it unconstitutional for our worthy Chairman to return with every respect all the titles that he has ever held from the Government? Is it unconstitutional for any parent to withdraw his children from a Government or aided school? Is it unconstitutional for a lawyer to say "I shall no longer support the arm of the law so long as that arm of law is used not to raise me but to debase me"? Is it unconstitutional for a civil servant or for a judge to say, "I refuse to serve a Government which does not wish to respect the wishes of the whole people"?

That is why our constitutional system has proved itself the most superbly enduring political mechanism the modern world has ever seen.

He was the most brilliant man I have ever known in the insurance profession

But nobody has ever discovered his true identity.

Nothing had ever touched his heart until he had rescued Cosette

Now, he discovered the greatest joy he had ever known by just standing beside her bed and looking at her innocent, trusting little face

If you ever find this man, I want you to help him in any way you can.

She! Everyone who has ever loved will feel the force of that small word

But this was the worst thing that had ever happened to him - someone was threatening to rob him of the only person he loved!

Cosette was the only family I ever had

Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature who was ever seen

Can't you let me go? You won't ever see me again, I promise!" Gerry begs.

And this is the last thing he ever says

"Do you think we'll ever be able to travel like you did?" Sala asked

If we're ever free of these silly things." She tapped her wrist.

Will we ever be free? she wondered

Or will we only ever see the world virtually? Of course, the virtual world was interesting

"When am I ever annoyed with you?"

"That is the craziest thing I've ever heard!"

This was the only world they were ever likely to experience

Cham was already there, looking more gorgeous than ever in his silver suit.

"Fantastic, more like! That was the best thing I've ever done in my life

Dad came home with the news yesterday afternoon, and he and Mom have been really depressed ever since."

I don't know if yon will ever receive this

We're all going to fly over the force field and live happily ever after in a forest where the trees grow gold-covered fruit."

Here, the tower blocks seemed taller and more depressing than ever, built closely together so that the spaces between them were always in shadow

I never want to be separated from my closest family ever again

The building seemed bigger than ever; the hologram wall seemed brighter

"Don't you ever rest?" Sala asked.

Cham looked more confused than ever

Would they ever leave?

I was twenty-one and de Winter was the first man I had ever loved

'No one ever expects it.'

'Yes, I suppose she was the most beautiful woman I ever saw in my life.'

No one would ever gossip about me.'

As I sat there I felt happier than I had ever been at Manderley

The room, a bedroom, was the most beautiful I had ever seen

'Have you ever heard of a man called Jack Favell, Beatrice?' I asked her.

'Everything is as beautiful as ever

It was the first and the last we ever held there

If I ever heard her voice, I would know it

'Why did you ever come to Manderley?' she said

He has looked like that ever since she died.'

Manderley was a place of safety and looked more beautiful than I had ever seen it

I kept it because it was the last thing Rebecca ever wrote to me

'No one called de Winter has ever come to me.'

For fifteen years, ever since she turned eighteen, two years before she married Michael, Tina Evans had lived and worked in Las Vegas

The place was as spotless as ever.

If she was ever to stop dreaming about the boy, if she were to get control of her grief, she must begin her recovery here, in this room, by conquering her irrational need to preserve his possessions in situ.

For five years, ever since her sixty-fifth birthday, they had been pressuring her to live with them

Besides, for the past twenty-one years, ever since her Harry died, she had always taken care of herself

Magyck! Was the most entertaining Vegas show that Elliot Stryker had ever seen.

She hugged him hard, and Joel proclaimed the show to be a "gargantua if I ever saw one."

In time Michael had made it clear to her that, he hadn't actually ever loved the real Christina

Now she couldn't imagine how or why she had ever cared.

But did you ever stop to realize what effect your absences had on Danny? If you loved family life so much, why didn't you spend all those weekends with your son?"

Michael was the only person who had ever blamed her for Danny's death

Not one other relative or acquaintance had ever suggested that she was even indirectly responsible

This was the first time she'd ever had the need to tap those stores for herself.

"Have the authorities ever figured out exactly why it happened?" Elliot asked.

"Have you ever handled anything like this before?"

"Does it ever stop?" she asked.

Owen West and I opened for business in a cheap storefront office twelve years ago, right at the start of the biggest boom this town has ever seen

He could not remember ever having been half so clumsy in the kitchen as he was this evening

Nothing had ever felt better to her than he felt at that moment.

"If there's no hitch, maybe the father won't ever find out about the exhumation."

They're out right now, and there's nobody ever been here named Fitzpatrick."

For some of them, it's the only loyalty they'll ever be capable of

Have you ever heard of "Project Pandora"?

"Have you ever heard of Project Pandora?"

She felt as if a vast unbridgeable gap separated her from people like these, and she wondered if she ever again would be as relaxed and free from care as these diners were at this moment.

"First of all," Elliot said, "before he went into the mountains with Jaborski, in all the years you knew him and lived in the same house with him, did Danny ever show any signs of being psychic?"

Many of them had been Presidential appointees, occupying high-level posts in the federal government; a few had served on the President's cabinet, in half a dozen administrations, though none had ever deigned to run for an elective position

He was the best and brightest young officer who ever served under me

"I know human nature," Alexander said, though he was one of the least observant and least analytical men that Kennebeck had ever known.

"Her mind was messed up before I ever met her."

"Well," Elliot said, "I happen to believe that individuals are more apt to act responsibly and morally than institutions ever do, which at least puts us on the side of justice

"The brain doesn't all of a sudden start growing new little nodes that nobody's ever seen before."

The Explorer labored ever higher into the mountains.

She couldn't pinpoint what else about his eyes made him so different from any eyes she had ever seen, but as she met Danny's gaze, a shiver passed through her, and she felt a profound and terrible pity for him.

He's the only person who's ever survived it

"That's the same question I've been wrestling with ever since Danny got caught in the gears

"As far as we know, he's the only one who ever has."

Haven't you ever heard of it? It's a very secret group of Americans from the South

The winter storms at sea that year were worse than ever, and so the Star never arrived in Georgia, and nobody saw the captain or his men again

Have you ever tried to explain to a sleepy police officer that your sister-in-law has just phoned to say she has killed your brother with a steam hammer?

Do you know if your brother ever did any experiments with flies?'

This was the first time he had ever mentioned flies, and I was relieved that Commissaire Charas was not present

But don't ever transmit me

Nothing can ever make me forget that dreadful white hairy head with its two pointed ears

It's so mysterious, isn't it, the way she suddenly rented a house here, and hardly ever goes outside it? It's like a detective story

She also had the most unusual eyes I have ever seen - for they were almost golden, too

'Although nobody has ever thought that he did shoot Protheroe.'

'Mrs Protheroe, can you tell me if the contents of Old Hall were ever valued?'

Nothing about a crime is ever ordinary

Nobody ever liked him because he always thought he was right, and that others were always wrong

'I wonder,' I said, 'if you were to commit a murder whether you would ever be found out.'

However, the next day there was no report in the newspapers except one small note in the Daily Telegraph, and the world knew nothing of one of the greatest dangers that ever threatened Earth.

If I had looked up I would have seen the strangest thing that ever fell to Earth from space, but I did not

'They are the slowest, fattest things I ever saw crawl

After the lightning had begun, it flashed again and again, as quickly as I have ever seen

Another pause, and then he shouted, 'The smoke of her burning goes up for ever and ever!' His eyes were wide and he pointed a thin finger in the direction of Weybridge.

Along the edge of Regent's Park there were as many romantic couples as there had ever been

That second start was the most foolish thing I ever did

We sat in the kitchen in the dark and had a meal of cold food, and just before midnight there was a blinding flash of green light followed by the loudest bang I have ever heard

'"Jack," she said, "when you took my money you said that if I ever wanted some, I should just ask you."

'Have you ever seen a photograph of her first husband?'

Have you ever seen it?'

'Have you ever met anyone who knew your wife in America?'

'Has she ever talked about visiting America again?'

'Has she ever received letters from there?'

'Watson,' he said, 'if you should ever think that I am becoming too confident in my powers, or that I am not working hard enough on a particular case, please whisper "Norbury" in my ear, and I will be infinitely obliged to you.'

I have suffered from this illness ever since I was a boy

If Harris ever has tears in his eyes, he is eating raw onions

When we passed Hampton Court Palace, Harris asked, 'Have you ever visited the maze here?' He said he had gone into the maze once to show a friend

Harris laughed and said, 'George! Work! Have you ever seen George work?'

Have you ever seen Harris awake, except at meal times?' George asked me.

She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen, and yet there seemed to be something missing - I did not know what.

'After what you've just said, I want to marry you more than ever,' said Sir Percival

But now I am ill! I have a fever! I cannot get ill now, when Laura needs me more than ever!

Now the similarity between Laura and Anne Catherick was stronger than ever

She was only seventeen years old, and she was the youngest person ever to win it.

In her book, Memoirs from a Women's Prison (1983), she wrote, "Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote

She was one of the most famous scientists the world has ever known.

She was one of the greatest tennis players ever

In the 21st century, women are stronger and braver than ever

But thanks to the women in this book - and others - women are now much more equal in society than they have ever been before.