How to Use ever in a Sentence

ever

adverb

• The crime rate is higher now than it has ever been.
• That was the worst movie I ever saw.
• Have you ever been to France?
• Has this ever been done before?
• She's doing fine and is as pretty as ever.
• The deadline draws ever closer.
• No one has ever seen a better example of woodwork.
• Did it ever occur to you that I might like more myself?
• He's forgotten all he's ever learned about history.
• Technology in recent years has become ever more sophisticated.
• Just fell off the bike and wouldn’t ever be able to get back on?
  — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 2 June 2024
• No man of the theatre has ever been more of the theatre, to the last row.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 12 July 2022
• The tone of her voice — there won’t ever be a replica of it.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2022
• The game marked the first-ever win for the Bearcats against the Midshipmen at Navy.
  — Chris Pugh, The Enquirer, 29 Oct. 2021
• So, no one may ever reach the threshold of cool that is The Fonz.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2021
• That was the most hurtful thing a friend has ever done to me.
  — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2024
• Could there have ever been a greater one in the history of the Bowl?
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022
• This is believed to be the last time she was ever seen alive.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2022
• Like the scent of decay, the question of what should be done with that space has hung in the air ever since.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2022
• The pup was already trained not to ever get more than 30 feet from me.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2022
• Trump is the first President to ever pose for a mug shot.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 25 Aug. 2023
• Coaches are playing the odds and pulling the goalie more than ever.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2022
• Aimee and David were my dream casting from the get-go and who ever gets their dream cast?
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 11 Dec. 2023
• The song became the first-ever platinum record, in 1976.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2021
• And that was my first time ever trying that, that night.
  — Marcus Thompson Ii, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025
• And, my thoughts go out to anyone who, like me, has ever been the victim of any kind of abuse.
  — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 6 Jan. 2023
• But never, ever was a Black boy paired with a white girl.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2022
• Of course, no two paths to parenthood are ever the same.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 1 Apr. 2022
• In her opening speech Erivo pointed out that Broadway had its most profitable season ever, thanks in part to a small Hollywood invasion of the boards.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 9 June 2025
• Women are now more likely than ever to have their own wealth to contribute—or to have influence over their family’s giving.
  — Marianne Schnall, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025