How to Use never in a Sentence

never

adverb
  • I never meant to hurt you.
  • That man has never heard of you.
  • I will never shop at that store again.
  • You never know what you'll find at a flea market.
  • There is never enough time to finish our work.
  • We will never forget what we saw.
  • I have never seen that happen before.
  • Never in my whole life have I been so offended!
  • She never really said that.
  • I gave him my business for years and never for one moment did I suspect that he was a criminal.
  • Her life will never be the same.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2025
  • And my brain just never went to it.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025
  • It was never known in the first place.
    Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Yet many never have the chance.
    Eva Remijan-Toba, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • But they were never meant to be.
    Andrew Callahan, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2026
  • But there has never been proof of lunch.
    John Kenney, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The specter of her crush never leaves.
    Mariella Rudi, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • But one never knows with these things.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Bradley never asked for any of this.
    Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • She was never charged with a crime.
    Riley Moser, CBS News, 24 June 2026
  • She was never heard from again.
    Saleen Martin, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
  • There have never been two ties in the same decade.
    Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Full of drafts that never see the light of day.
    Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2026
  • It’s never gone this way for Brown.
    Zach Berman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • But Lamb has never been one to sit still.
    Laura Berrios, AJC.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • But the Hawks never got enough out of that stretch.
    C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • That was never an option in the past.
    Big Think, 10 Nov. 2025
  • He should have never been allowed to run again.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 26 May 2026
  • From there, the Spurs took over and never looked back.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The model never does any of these things.
    Michele Zanello, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026

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