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Example sentences for "never once"

  • I have never forgot you, Bill; never once.

  • All this time he had, never once, turned his back upon the corpse; no, not for a moment.

  • They went out of the room arm-in-arm, never once looking at me.

  • He never seemed to laugh, nor to joke, nor take any interest in what was going on, and the whole winter long he never once entered my little den, where we had had such happy times.

  • He never once looked in either of our faces as he was speaking.

  • Actually, it never once occurred to him that to kill a blackmailer of that type rather than permit him to ruin a woman's life might be a very righteous deed!

  • The God on whom I ever gaze, The God I never once behold; Above the cloud, beneath the clod, The Unknown God, the Unknown God.

  • Never once, however, did we allude to such a catastrophe; and whenever I fixed my eyes earnestly upon her in the vain hope of discerning some more favourable symptom, she would pretend not to notice me.

  • Never once, you see, did I lose an opportunity of impressing the savages among whom I dwelt.

  • He is then stabbed repeatedly on the outside of the thighs and in the arms (never once is an artery cut); and if he remains absolutely statuesque at each stab, he comes through the most trying part of the ordeal with flying colours.

  • Never once have I read that without thinking of you.

  • I never once said it to myself; but all this year, 'way down in my heart, I knew you'd come back.

  • Meanwhile he never once yielded to any interest; and thus this innate faculty, which might have been a virtue easily practiced, became one of heroic merit.

  • His cordial friendship for Moore was never once affected by the series of triumphs which followed its formation, and which made the whole world bow before his genius.

  • In Phillips's picture the expression is one of haughtiness and affected dignity, never once visible to those who ever saw him.

  • When I applied for enlistment I never once thought of the bounty money I would become entitled to, therefore my entry into the army in the fall of 1862 was in no sense mercenary.

  • It never once occurred to my innocent heart that this smooth-talking Yankee officer was lying to me.

  • I wrote a letter to him instantly; I put aside all modesty of demeanor and spoke only of Barbara, of my desire to have her well and cheerful; I never once in all my lines mentioned business.

  • I never once, from the minute the words clung to my mind like burning iron to flesh, questioned as to how I must reply to the letter: the reply shaped itself while I read her words.

  • Never once did I ask myself, 'Is it mother?

  • It never once occurred to the professor, you will notice, that he might find John vanished also.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    against them; ditto ditto; for just; never again; never been; never did; never does; never fail; never failed; never fails; never gave; never going; never knew; never knowed; never liked; never said; never seen; never take; never tired; never understood; never want; never went; never were; overflight and navigation permitted; transshipment point for cocaine and marijuana; under cultivation