How to use "never" in a sentence

Its words never help, they just make me feel bad

I am never late for work

You'll never see water again.

'No, he's not here, and Aron's never late

I will never be able to cut through them with only a small knife.

They smile at me in a kind way, but they never speak

It's never been this late before

I'll never be able to climb it - I'm too weak

Some ships tried to find it and kill it, but they never returned.

We sailed for three months and we never saw the creature once.

"You mean well never go home again? That's impossible!"

"I think he's a scientist who never had any success

He never took his eyes off the window

Captain Nemo never thought of danger

We travelled underwater, never coming up except for air

Boats which sailed into these whirlpools never escaped

We'll never make it."

It was a strange and wonderful adventure; one I will never forget.

'I never speak about cats! Our family hates cats! I don't want to hear any more about them.'

Perhaps I'll never see her again!'

'I'm never going to get out of here,' she thought

It started to move away a minute later, it vanished behind a flower and Alice never saw it again.

"I'll never go there again,' Alice said

'Oh no, they never cut off anybody's head

The Queen likes saying it, but she never does it.'

'I see other people playing, but I don't play and they never ask me to play with them.'

'They never taught me to catch a ball at high school,' I said

'Forrest,' said Mr Tribble, 'You're a wonderful chess player, but I never know what's going to happen next! Here's half of the money that you've won - it's almost five thousand dollars

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality

We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities

We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by a sign stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote

There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension

Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them

All the vital rights of minorities and of individuals are so plainly assured to them by affirmations and negations, guaranties and prohibitions, in the Constitution, that controversies never arise concerning them

And while it is obviously possible that such decision may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it, being limited to that particular case, with the chance that it may be overruled and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice.

I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution - which amendment, however, I have not seen - has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service

If there be an object to HURRY any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take DELIBERATELY, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it.

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty.

On the contrary, I have said it repeatedly to my countrymen that violence, whatever end it may serve in Europe, will never serve us in India.

There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped by merely talking about it.

If I read the temper of our people correctly, we now realize, as we have never realized before, our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must give as well; that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline no progress can be made, no leadership becomes effective.

For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt, can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

Let us never negotiate out of fear

But let us never fear to negotiate.

'You'll never tell the truth

You'll never escape now

You never knew that I came into your room at night when you were asleep

'You never knew my real name,' Meltham told him

Nobody saw her alive again; she never came back for her bed.

We shall never know the answer

John McCarthy said later, 'It looked more like the work of a devil than of a man.' And Mrs Prater, who looked through the window, said, 'I can never forget it if I live to be a hundred.'

The man called Jack the Ripper was never caught, and his name will probably never be known

However, two days before, somebody sent a letter to the police, which was never published

The townspeople, who had never seen him before, watched with interest as he stopped for water at a fountain

His doors were never locked, so that anybody who needed his help could find him easily.

He had never before seen such peace, such kindness, such trust.

Now I've become a bad woman, but what choice did I have? I'll never get my daughter back if I don't make money.'

And I promise that, in the eyes of God, you have never been a bad woman.'

To avoid being seen, he never went out during the day

But if you give the boy to me, and promise never to see him again, I'll look after him.'

Gillenormand and never saw his son or father-in-law again.

Marius grew up with his grandfather, and never knew his father

He rarely bought new clothes, but he was proud of the fact that he had never been in debt

Life was hard for him, but he never forgot the promise he had made his father: that he would find Thenardier, the man who had saved his father's life, and help him in any way he could.

Whatever it was, Marius sensed that, after that moment, his life would never be the same.

He never appeared in the Luxembourg Gardens without the handkerchief pressed to his lips or his heart

The Jondrette family had been Marius's neighbours for many months, but he had never before paid much attention to them

Approaching him, she rested a cold red hand on his shoulder and said, 'You never notice me, M

Marius had lived for five years without much money, but he had never been really poor

'Why should I? I've never seen her'

'But you must promise me,' he said, 'that you'll never tell your father the address.'

She had never read anything like this before, and it affected her deeply.

'Well, I'll pray for you to succeed and I'll never stop thinking about you

He was feeling depressed, because he realized that he would probably never see his grandson again

I haven't a pair of shoes, and she hasn't a shirt, but never mind

But I will never give you my permission! Never!'

'What have I done? This time he'll never come back.'

If he kept the letter in his pocket, Cosette would never know what had happened to the other man, and life with her would continue the same as before

I never want to see you again!'

"Hello handsome," she always says to me, "another day at the office?" And I never say much, but I do not have to: we understand each other without words

Unfortunately, this, I can never tell you.

Never again Oliver Stern, never again."

"No, never

"And he never says anything threatening? He never says that he wants to hurt you?"

"No, he never says a thing

We never found the driver, but William died instantly, they say."

Gerry considers lying, but Big Jones can never find him here

"Bloody poms never believe us about the salties."

They never stop.

The sounds never stop: the horns of the big yellow taxis, the music from the bars and the restaurants

The man never even looks at the bag

For a moment there are people all around him, and he thinks he will never get there, but then he pushes past some kids who shout at him, and he is there

The icicle never can."

I never hurt anyone; she did

You know that Sophie is sleeping in her usual position at the top of the stairs and that she never makes a noise in the night, and you wish, for the first time, that you also had a dog

And I promise, Father, after this I will never commit another crime again

And he pushes through the snow, and he thinks that maybe, if he can get to the sound, he can flee into the mountains and never come back.

He never sees people up here at this time of year

I was never rich, I was never too clever

"I never cheat

You can hit me, or you can try to scare me, but I never cheat!"

"No, Mr Wynn! I didn't, I promise! I didn't, I don't cheat, I never cheat!"

He never does

I never told Mr Wynn."

There was a screen on the wall with a list of places to choose from: places they would never see for real.

Sala would never forget, either

"Yes!" Sala had never had a pod experience

She'd never seen anything like it before.

Her back was often painful from when she'd been injured during the Oil Wars, so she almost never left the apartment these days.

Sala had never seen anything from beyond the city

"Gran, you never know! Maybe there are places outside the city that didn't get contaminated - where people survived."

You never earned many, but it was better than nothing - and a good way to exercise, and get out of your apartment.

They had never argued before

She would never want to prevent that - there were so few opportunities to succeed

Sala had seen it before, of course, from a distance - but she'd never been so close to it.

They'd never had to make a big decision like this before, and she wished with all her heart that he wasn't making her choose

It felt like a moment of magic: they'd never been so close.

"I'll never understand you."

They'll never need him again."

"You'll never guess." Sala looked around

It was now or never.

Before long, they passed through a district that Sala had never visited before

We wanted to contact your grandmother directly, but she never goes out

She'd never considered it before, when she'd had nothing to hide

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

never mind

but on the other, her life with Cham had never felt more uncertain.

'You are wrong, I could never forget you,' said de Winter in a cold, hard voice.

But if he had a home like Manderley, he would never leave it

They say he never talks about it, never says her name

'You never have any drawings to show me

Then I said quickly, 'I'd like to keep this moment and never forget it.'

He would never forgive me

I shall never drive with him again, I thought

I had never felt more alone.

I never saw his wife

Rebecca was all the things that I would never be

I thought I would never see you again.'

You would never know the sea was so near.'

He has never used this room.'

Would it be eaten or thrown away? I would never know of course

I could not tell Frith that I had never seen the morning-room

I haven't seen the gardens, but I'm sure I shall never get tired of them

I had never asked him about Rebecca's death.

But you never know what he is thinking

I had never been in so beautiful a place

I never go near the place or that damned cottage

I shall never forget it.'

I could not tell the woman that Maxim had never spoken about the ball.

'You never met her then?' the woman asked

He never used her name.

'I'm so sorry,' I said, 'I never thought Robert would get into trouble.'

'I never thought that Mrs de Winter had broken the ornament,' said Mrs Danvers

And that boat would never come back now.

I had never seen it before and I hoped the visitor did not want to stay to tea.

I have never seen anyone more surprised.

Rebecca would never come back to this room again

A room that was never used now.

I shall never forget the look on her face

There were so many rooms that Maxim and I never used

'I never wear fancy dress,' Maxim replied

I had never seen the old house looking so lovely.

I shall never forget the terrible look on her face

I never wanted to see them again

All through that long night, Maxim never looked at me.

He had never loved me

I could never be the mistress of Manderley

I would never escape from Rebecca

'He's never forgotten her

He's never loved me, Frank

Perhaps I would never see Maxim again

Perhaps Maxim had left me and would never come back

'If you loved him, you would never have married him,' Mrs Danvers said.

'He's never cared about mine

'He doesn't want you, he never did

I knew we could never be happy.'

He had never kissed me like this before.

We never loved each other

Rebecca never loved anyone except herself.'

She knew I would never divorce her

I would never tell people all the terrible things she had told me.'

He had never loved her, never, never.

Rebecca never left him alone

Beatrice and Giles never stayed at Manderley again

After that, I knew I could never trust Rebecca with anyone.

'Oh God, I never needed to be reminded.

And you would never know who his father was."

And it will never come back

I'd never come back, I promise you.'

'Rebecca never opened those sea-cocks

'I've never seen him,' he said

We began to kiss each other, like guilty lovers who had never kissed before.

He had never heard of us

It had never looked more beautiful

The X-rays showed that she could never have had a child

'But he will never say anything

She still had not adjusted to the loss of her only child, because she'd never wanted - or tried - to adjust to it

After all, she'd never seen Danny's corpse

She would never forget him, that sweet child who had been such a large part of her, but she would no longer have to live her life around the gaping hole that he had left in it

But Joel would never stop willingly

But even if Vivienne had kept her scheduled appointment, she never would have written those words on the chalkboard

Nickel duchesses always played the cheap slot machines - nickels and dimes in the old days, now quarters - never the dollar- or five-dollar slots

In a country that worshiped youth, most elderly Americans devoutly desired to discover a place where they belonged, but unlike the duchesses, many of them never found it.

She waited impatiently as the five minutes crawled by; she was never comfortable in a casino when it was busy

"You've never been the kind of person who makes enemies," he said

I never hated you

But it was never as bad as hatred."

She had never neglected him and Danny

She had never vented any of her black anger because, initially, she'd wanted to hide it from Danny; she hadn't wanted to turn him against his father

Why on earth would I? What do you have to give me that I can't get elsewhere? You've never been much of a giver anyway, Michael

And I never asked for alimony

She was crying for all the things that might have been, and for what could never be again.

The number was 1001012, identified as the access for "Comps," which meant "complimentary guests," a euphemism for "big losers," who were never asked to pay their room charges or restaurant bills because they routinely dropped small fortunes in the casino.

They never will

"You'll probably never learn the answer

I understand how hard it must be never to know why."

"He says I never should have let him go with Jaborski

I'm never able to reach him

It never lasts for long, but when I first wake up, I'm sure he's alive somewhere

"I never saw his body."

I never saw him

You need to spend time with the deceased, enough to accept that the body is never going to be animated again."

She never was sure who initiated the first kiss

He'd been trying to postpone her departure because he was afraid that he would never see her again after she drove off.

Now, for the judge's benefit, and to explain why an exhumation had suddenly become such a vital matter, Elliot exaggerated the anguish and confusion that Tina had undergone as a direct consequence of never having seen the body of her child.

In the process of trying to hurt his ex-wife, he'd waste several days of the court's time, and the end result would be exactly the same as if he'd never been given a chance to protest."

Yes, it's one you've never heard of and probably never will

She'd never been able to understand this morbid streak in him

Initially his growing fascination with the macabre had not seemed entirely healthy to her, but she had never denied him the freedom to pursue it

If this was what Danny had read before going to bed at night, how had he been able to sleep so well? He'd always been a deep, unmoving sleeper, never troubled by bad dreams.

She had never seen this drawing before

But after she had made up her mind to let him read such stuff, she never thereafter even glanced at his purchases.

But you never can tell

He would never be able to con an unlisted number out of the directory-assistance operator

He had never expected to play that game again

Or maybe he never actually retired at all

But I never saw it until today

When he came home from the newsstand, I never monitored what he'd bought

I never snooped."

"Their parents never saw the bodies?"

"The only alternative is to give up, to back off and never know what really happened."

Danny was barely old enough to understand the rules, but he'd never played before

But we never did

We never found him at all."

"Just because you never found him - that's not proof he was killed by a truck."

I've never believed in that psychic crap."

I never talked against Michael

"Jesus, you just never know, do you?"

"You never know," the guard agreed.

"Our relationship was never like that

We'll probably never know

"Every time it's happened, it's never seemed to bother him," Dombey said.

"At least it's never lasted long

The temperature drops abruptly, stays down for two or three minutes, never longer than five, and then it rises to normal again."

If he's subjected to many more of these sudden temperature fluctuations, we'll never be certain they didn't contribute to his death

Risky as it might be to express doubt to any colleague on the project, Dombey could not control himself: "Clean? This whole thing was never clean

Chipping three billion out of Health was the least risky of the Network's funding operations, for Health was so gigantic that it never missed such a petty sum

These diplomatic and intelligence-gathering assignments were never an insult to his family name, but they were always minor postings to embassies in smaller countries like Iceland and Ecuador and Tonga, nothing for which The New York Times would deign to acknowledge his existence.

He could never hope to receive the public acclaim and honor that had been heaped upon other men in his family

After all, he had never killed an ordinary citizen or a person of real worth

All of his life, for reasons he had never been able to fully ascertain, he had been fascinated by death, intrigued by the form and nature and possibilities of it, enthralled by the study and theory of its meaning

If he failed to stop Stryker and the Evans woman, his dream of assuming the director's chair in a few years would never become a reality.

Alexander never liked to have worthy opponents

"You get the feeling that civilization could be destroyed while you're out here, and you'd never be aware of it."

"He's never seen us or the Explorer, and this isn't the sort of place where there's a lot of new or unexpected traffic."

Tina had never heard Elliot speak in this tone of voice, and his furious expression was sufficient to chill even her

They were never able to find an antibody or an antibiotic that was effective against it

The producer, the studio, and the network never could agree on a title, and no one liked my idea - Kickass Koontz Cinema - and probably even realized I was not serious in proposing it.

All I know is that during the fourteen or sixteen - or seven thousand - months that we worked together, through countless story meetings in the development executive's office, I was never sure that any of my writing confreres had read the complete novel that he or she was adapting - or understood what had been read

He was contemptuous of the book he was paid to adapt, of me, and of the entire TV industry, to which he would never return (he assured me with a glower) after his first smash-hit film

After the first story meeting, however, I never saw the two of them together

Because I was never in the room with both partners, getting a thoughtful response to a story note I'd given was impossible, because neither could speak for the other and could only promise to consult when next they met at the deathbed of whatever beloved person expired that week.

Consequently, each draft of the script was full of plot holes and illogic that never quite got repaired.

But he never came back

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

I have liked telephones, and here in France we now have so many of them that you are never safe from interruption

'The drop is never set at zero.'

She never tried to defend herself and even got quite annoyed when she realized people thought she was mad

But she would never say why or under what circumstances she had killed Andre

But we were never able to obtain any information from my sister-in-law

'She never seems to consider him as her own child.'

'Have you noticed that she never catches flies when the boy is there?' he said.

And I'm very much afraid we shall never understand, unless perhaps your sister-in-law should..

But then there were all the questions she had never answered: the most important ones.

'He disintegrated perfectly, but he never reappeared in the receiving machine

He did not tell me first, knowing very well that I would never have agreed to such an experiment with our dog

Of course I never thought that he would try an experiment with a human being, not then anyway

I will never forget that day-long hunt for a fly

He would never forgive me for breaking a promise, but I phoned Professor Augier.

Several furious knocks shook the door, and I knew then that he would never accept this solution

I hope there is no life after death because, if there is, I shall never forget the horror! Day and night, awake or asleep, I see it, and I know that I will see it forever.

The police would never understand but the professors would, and they must not! That had been Andre's last wish.

'Lawrence never even tries to kiss to me,' she said

'She never is.'

I've never met a man more different from his name

'You've never done one.' Before Griselda could reply, a shadow fell across the table, and a very gentle voice said, 'Please forgive me

'Well, I shall never forget his face when I met him outside my gate, or the way he said, "Oh, you'll see Protheroe all right!" That should have made me suspect what had just happened.' Haydock stared at me

His eyes were looking at the note in my hand and I have never seen such pain in any human being's face.

'I have never seen one.'

'Darling Len, you never know anything.'

She never forgets anything.' He went into the next room and returned with a suitcase.

'But you can never be sure they will be on time

'I have never been in a house where they had a murder,' Mary said

'And I never want to be again.'

'She never knows where she's left anything

All these things were in the attic when I married Lucius and I've never looked at them before

'I never dropped anything in your study,' she said

But what does he want to come and see me for? I don't like it! I never suggested that he was guilty

She was sitting there and saying very loudly that she had never taken a suitcase to the woods.

'I never thought of that,' I said.

And do you know the result? That letter was never written by Protheroe at all

'So it's the one man we never even thought about!' He went over to the sleeping man and shook him, at first gently, then harder

'Yes - that he never killed Colonel Protheroe.'

There are some things that Lettice will never understand.

I never dreamed of it then, as I watched

One or two adventurous people went into the darkness and crawled quite near the Martians, but they never returned, because now and again a light-ray swept round the common, and the Heat-Ray was ready to follow

I had never touched a dead body before, but I forced myself to turn him over and feel for his heart

Destruction had never been so total in the history of war

He sent a telegram, which never reached me.

There had never been such a large or fast movement of war equipment in England before.

The Ripley gunners had never been in action before

They never gave the guns any chance against them

She had never been out of England before; she would rather die than be friendless in a foreign country

People who have never seen these things can hardly understand how alive they looked.

They did not sleep, and because they had very simple bodies they never seemed to get tired

Germs, which cause so much disease and pain on Earth, have either never appeared on Mars or they got rid of them a long time ago.

At the sound of birds overhead I looked up at the enormous fighting-machine that would never fight again, at the pieces of red flesh that dropped down onto the overturned seats on the top of Primrose Hill.

We can never know what unseen good or evil might come to us suddenly out of space

'"Oh," she said playfully, "you said that you were only my banker, and bankers never ask questions, you know."

"I will trust you," I said, "if you promise never to come here again."

I cut myself off from my race to marry him, but I never regretted it for a moment

'I left her in America with a trusted servant,' Mrs Munro continued, 'because she was not very healthy, but I never considered abandoning her

'You don't know how to put up a tent! We'll never put up this tent,' you say.

We decided never to take a paraffin oil stove again.

You can never escape from that woman

It is never boring when three girls tow a boat.

If the water knows you are waiting for it, it will never get hot

I never drink it

Why did we wake up so early? It never happens to us when we're working.

I never saw a man laugh so much

I never saw a man's face change so quickly.

Harris said, 'If you never try anything new, you'll never discover things

We never discovered the truth about the swans

I agreed with Harris, George never worked.

However, they never catch any fish

The rain never stopped

Well, you never know

He never does anything about them

James never got his car

'I never took you seriously on that car business.'

Mr Fairlie never leaves his room

A drawing teacher must spend his life in the company of beautiful women who can never be his

I had always known this, and I had never before felt anything more than a teacher's interest in my students

She's never loved him

'I've never heard anything bad about Sir Percival., she said

'I can never break my engagement,' said Laura

'If you insist on our marriage, I'll be your faithful wife,' she said, 'but I'll never love you!'

I have never before met a man like Count Fosco

She had never liked Laura

I never saw him again, and I hope I never will.

1.) I never saw Count Fosco give Lady Glyde any medicine.

2.) He was never alone in the room with her.

The truth was that Percival's father had never married Percival's mother

I'll send you money every month on two conditions: you must keep the secret and never tell anyone, in your own interest as well as mine; and you must never leave the village.'

I did not object: I have never loved my daughter.

In answer to your questions, I never met Sir Percival Glyde, and he certainly never came to Varneck Hall

'I've never seen him before.'

He never for a moment doubted that she was Anne Catherick

130 million girls in the world do not go to school, and 15 million girls of primary-school age will never go into a classroom

The Nobel Committee said she was a brave person who never worried that she was in danger

They never lived together, never married and never had children

But men scientists in France gave Marie a lot of problems, and she never got enough money for her work