never to return

idiom

used to say that someone never went back to a place
She left home never to return.

Examples of never to return in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Their hits got banished from the radio, never to return until now. Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2024 At a hearing a few years earlier, a case had fallen apart when a woman walked off the witness stand in the middle of testifying, never to return. Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024 Within four months, Matt’s bipolar cycling had resolved, never to return. David Baszucki, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2024 Sometimes students would leave at the end of the day, never to return. Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 23 June 2024 For reasons revealed late in the novel, her home life deteriorated significantly in her teens, leading her to pick a distant college, never to return. Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2024 With the exception of local colleges that draw students from across the area, the city’s Arab population — a prewar majority — has mostly fled, or been expelled since 1948, never to return, as part of what Palestinians call the Nakba. Damien Cave Amit Elkayam, New York Times, 23 May 2024 The three women hide out in the small Spanish town that Gala’s mother fled 50 years ago, vowing never to return. Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024 Sheldon doesn't look up from his book as his father walks out the kitchen door into the (heavenly bright) sunlight, never to return. Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024

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“Never to return.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/never%20to%20return. Accessed 3 Nov. 2024.

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