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Example sentences for "never been"

  • I've never been in a place like this before," she ventured.

  • I've never been fishing," remarked Isabel, as she could think of nothing else to say.

  • I've never been back, but I like to think that some of the old-time sweetness is still in the house, shut away like a jewel of great price, safe from meddling hands.

  • No; I'd never been out of England in my life.

  • I've never been so deceived in a man as I was in George Rainey.

  • But--excuse me--how do you know so many kinds of men if you've never been married?

  • I've lived here for sixty years and I've never been on the pond yet.

  • I've never been able to mention him to you since, but I've wanted to know all about him.

  • But I've never been able to do it yet, and whether it's because I have too little grace or too much porridge I really can't decide.

  • I feel quite sure that Jack Gillis works her class sums for her, though I've never been able to catch him red-handed.

  • Sides, Paul's never been here to any meal escept tea, and it's easier to be p'lite at tea than at breakfast.

  • I ain't never been married, but I did live wid Major Baker 18 years and us had five chillun.

  • I ain't never been to no more sich doin's.

  • Dere warn't no school for Niggers den, and I ain't never been to school a day in my life.

  • I hain't never been to one, and you can't be too keerful where you go, in a place like New York.

  • During nearly the whole month that now passed before the date of sailing it seemed to March that in some familiar aspects New York had never been so interesting.

  • Because a person is in China right now wouldn't have to mean he'd never been in South America, would it?

  • I've never been abroad, and I want you to take me.

  • I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

  • In this way it was made clear that Middlemarch had never been deceived, and that there was no need to praise anybody for writing a book, since it was always done by somebody else.

  • And might have left his property so respectable, to them that's never been used to extravagance or unsteadiness in no manner of way--and not so poor but what they could have saved every penny and made more of it.

  • When we returns to the front room another prominent citizen makes a little speech that was quite beautiful to hear, and says mebby we represents some new concern that ain't never been in them parts and is figgering on buying cotton.

  • I hadn't never been licked by a corpse, and didn't rightly know jest what one is, anyhow, being young and comparitive innocent.

  • Which made me feel considerable better, fur I never been of the opinion that going agin the law done any one no good.

  • I never been much of a person to have bad dreams or nightmares or things like that.

  • Well," I says, "I never been much of a reader when it comes to different kind of medicines.

  • Yet his eye and ear had never been keener.

  • But I got into rough ground where I'd never been before.

  • I suppose you've never been tempted to go to sleep?

  • In a few years it'll be as if I've never been up.

  • I've never been inside it, and I never will.

  • Why have I never been summoned to milk the cows, or flay the pigs, or drive the young bullocks to the pasture?

  • During the packing he was obliged to go up to the attic to find the Dryad manuscript which had never been returned.

  • There also I saw the keen features of Dada Mendoza, the Jew, just retired from active work, and leaving behind him a reputation for elegance and perfect science which has, to this day, never been exceeded.

  • I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it.

  • I've never been in the depths of despair, so I can't say," responded Marilla.

  • I've never been to an Exhibition, and it's so aggravating to hear the other girls talking about their trips.

  • I've not seen Paris; I've never been out of England.

  • I've never been in what you call society.

  • I've never been able to get the same effect again.

  • She'd never been beautiful, and she'd never been young--not young like Betty.

  • Money's never been so plenty in Whitewater County and this city is feelin' the benefits of it.

  • Except at my own party the other night I've never been bugled to my meals.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "never been" 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:
    ainsi que; life forms; never came; never fail; never forgive; never forgot; never give; never going; never left; never liked; never looked; never made; never meant; never mentioned; never once; never quite; never see; never seen; never shall; never should; never told; never want; never were; never will; question whether; slender pedicels