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
• The 45 points was the most ever by Oregon State in the 79-game series.
  — oregonlive, 26 Sep. 2021
• Could there have ever been a greater one in the history of the Bowl?
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022
• No team had ever come back from a 3-1 deficit in the finals.
  — The Athletic Nba Staff, New York Times, 22 June 2025
• 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
• The class of 376 Peace Prize candidates is the largest ever.
  — CNN, 24 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Was there ever a version of the story in your mind that had a happy ending?
  — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 1 July 2025