Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "ever knew"

  • Barney was the most decent man to women I ever knew.

  • Somehow, I can't even realize that I ever knew him.

  • All things work together for good with those who love the Lord, you know, and Emma Ordway is the most outrageously Christian woman I ever knew.

  • The normal growth of the human soul to-day is into a wide, fluent, general relation with mankind; and a deeper more satisfying and workable conception of God than we ever knew before.

  • You had the most industrious vacations of anyone I ever knew," said I, "and the most varied.

  • He found himself the first person who urged Mrs. Roosevelt to visit the Exposition for its beauty, and, as far as he ever knew, the last.

  • This was only the idea of a boy, but, as far as he ever knew, it was also the idea of his Government.

  • She was only one of many women who did full duty through the darkest days the nation ever knew--saints in homespun, martyrs uncanonised save in the hearts of the stricken.

  • I asked him to go because he is the best doctor I ever knew.

  • You certainly are the most engaging girl I ever knew.

  • And always when I think of him I remember his dread of fire--the only fear he ever knew.

  • This,' he said, 'is all we ever knew of you.

  • And surely that is easy for you," she added sweetly, "who of your proper self please all who ever knew you.

  • I said in a low voice: "Yonder Huron differs from any Indian I ever knew.

  • He's one of the cleverest letter writers I ever knew--in the flesh.

  • The last time he was down he found time to tell me about somebody's old garden up there in Eastman, where they have some kind of wonderful, old-fashioned rose with the sweetest fragrance he ever knew.

  • Truly he was to old and young alike the sunshine of our home; and I believe that no one, who did not know him there, ever knew him in his most brilliant, witty, and fertile vein.

  • Mr. Tierney said he was sure Sir Philip Francis had written Junius, for he was the proudest man he ever knew, and no one ever heard of anything he had done to be proud of.

  • This I will say for myself, that, when I do sit down to work, I work harder and faster than any person that I ever knew.

  • He likes Mr. Clemens very much," my representative answered, "and he thinks him one of the greatest men he ever knew.

  • This basement was a work of the days when men built more heavily if not more substantially than now, but I forget, if I ever knew, what date the wine-cellar was of.

  • The word is not worthy of him, after some of its uses and associations, but if it were unsmutched by these, and whitened to its primitive significance, I should say he was one of the most perfect gentlemen I ever knew.

  • Yes, I followed my trade there, and learned more about it than I ever knew before.

  • He is one of the most exact men I ever knew, and his judgment is remarkable for one of his years.

  • And Franklin is the wisest man I ever knew," interjected Coleman.

  • And, Noah, you could make a suit of sails last longer than any man I ever knew; but you did have a hell of a temper.

  • Mr. Ricks has always bragged that you could think quicker and act quicker in an emergency than any man he ever knew.

  • He was the worst man I ever knew," Church said; then he added, "And the best.

  • To which Mrs. Howells replied: "He likes Mr. Clemens very much, and he thinks him one of the greatest men he ever knew.

  • More than any one I ever knew, he lived in the present.

  • All right," he said, "I can stand more of my own talk than any one I ever knew.

  • The dullest, good-for-nothing man I ever knew.

  • The most good-for-nothing prelate I ever knew.

  • You're as intelligent a woman as I ever knew.

  • Annan passed his delicate hand over his pale, handsome face: "Kelly Neville is, without exception, the most gifted man I ever knew.

  • She's the nicest girl I ever knew--almost.

  • He hated sham and cant: if a man had a single reality in him the old Doctor found it; and Charles Baxter in many ways exceeds any man I ever knew in the downright quality of genuineness.

  • And the air had a tang which got into a man's blood and set him chanting all the poetry he ever knew.

  • You see, I like all these surroundings better than any other place I ever knew.

  • Harriet was neither specially clever nor specially pretty, but she was, I think, perhaps the most absolutely unselfish human being I ever knew, and one of the most loving hearts.

  • He was perhaps the largest-hearted man I ever knew.

  • And in the smaller circle, which assembled in their rooms yet more frequently, they showed to yet greater advantage, for Lord Holland was one of the most amusing talkers I ever knew.

  • He was the best raconteur I ever knew, full of anecdote, and with a delicious perception of humour.

  • Then remember this: God is a mother, only He is so much finer a mother than the finest mother you ever knew.

  • Only He is ever so much better a friend than the best friend you ever knew of.

  • Only He is so much finer a lover than the finest lover you ever knew of.

  • Then remember this, God is a father, only He is so much finer a father than the finest father you ever knew of.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ever knew" 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:
    ever being; ever dear; ever known; ever lived; ever made; ever met; ever saw; ever seed; ever was; evergreen tree; everlasting glory; everlasting happiness; every sort; everybody seemed; everyone knows; everything around; high estimation; left the; long have; mouth disease; shoot him; testify against; there isn; this measure; various cities; whence they