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Example sentences for "but nevertheless"

  • I thought you knew him well; but nevertheless, well or ill, you must give him the warning.

  • His grace is certainly a very great and haughty peer, but nevertheless he may some day find you quite a fitting match for his daughter.

  • He calls it "this my Latin translation, not carefully finished indeed, but nevertheless rendered in good faith.

  • That which I see is not a thing or a person, but nevertheless what I feel towards it can be called by no other name than love.

  • She did not controvert the authenticity of the ordinary standards, but nevertheless behaved as if she herself were her only law.

  • What I imagined was once mine had been stolen, stolen perhaps unconsciously, but nevertheless stolen, my sole treasure.

  • The mountains near the village had been so thoroughly hunted that there was little chance of finding pigs, but nevertheless we decided to stay for a day or two.

  • The Mongolian gazelle, on the other hand, is most abundant in the grasslands both north and south of the Gobi, but nevertheless has a continuous distribution across the plateau between Kalgan and Urga.

  • We had little hope of getting the animal when we climbed to the summit of the ridge and saw the tangle of brush into which it had disappeared, but nevertheless we followed the trail which was still showing blood.

  • He was mated with a very fair and loving wife; but nevertheless he became enamoured of a lady who in the general opinion vastly surpassed in beauty every other lady in Naples.

  • Page 115] It was perhaps fortunate that their discovery about the oil was not delayed any longer, but nevertheless it came at a time when the outlook was dreary and dispiriting enough without additional discomforts.

  • Nothing to touch the work of his choruses of the old days, of course, but nevertheless fair, quite fair.

  • He was exhausted, and his throat was in agony, but nevertheless he was conscious of a feeling of quiet happiness.

  • Rummy accent and all that, but nevertheless a soft and pleasing voice.

  • He seemed rather reluctant to do so, but nevertheless I took it from his hand and looked at it closely.

  • I saw, frankly, that you had made a false move, but nevertheless it served my purpose, and I determined to look into the Crossleys end of the inquiry personally, without giving Dr.

  • It was a startling conclusion and one which rested, as I thought, upon somewhat slender premises; but nevertheless I found it disquieting.

  • But nevertheless I believed I had come aright.

  • I spent this money cheerfully, but nevertheless I was not especially attached to her.

  • There is some excuse for him, to be sure; but nevertheless he must change his present course.

  • I'm pretty strong now, but nevertheless I'm getting to be an old man, and so to-day while I was in town I had Bob Manning witness my will.

  • You've given your word and won't go back on it; but nevertheless you're sorry.

  • It was a mere chance, but nevertheless I did it; and yet already you have forgotten, have done--what you have done.

  • It was very flattering on his part to declare that its exhibition was worth so much to him, and to decline a fee, but nevertheless I shall send him a cheque to-night.

  • Flamby had half expected the question, but nevertheless it startled her.

  • He appears to be something of a dandy and to be very partial to the fair sex, but nevertheless there is nothing wrong with his reputation,considering, I mean, that the man is a sort of Eastern multimillionaire.

  • He came down like an acrobat--left foot, right foot, and then upon his hands, but nevertheless he lay there for a moment breathless and temporarily numbed by the shock.

  • I think my grandfather was very unjust," said Charlotte, but nevertheless a look of relief stole over her face.

  • It was a reason unworthy of her, unworthy and untrue; but nevertheless it took possession of the mind of this young man.

  • I was physically as well as mentally a sturdy, even a very sturdy person, but nevertheless I grew more and more tired.

  • But yet, occasionally, a word was dropped, which was not meant to give any indication, but nevertheless did.

  • But nevertheless, he parted with one of them, for the thought, it might be very useful for me as member of the choir to learn how to translate the Latin texts of our hymns into the the German language.

  • But nevertheless, what ruins, what filth, what rubbish!

  • He could not know that she was one of them, of course, but nevertheless it piqued her vanity that he did not divine it or take it for granted.

  • At first she fancied that he might be chaffing her, but she was too intelligent to harbor that idea, so convincing was his innate sincerity; but nevertheless, she meant to go cautiously.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "but nevertheless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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