Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "never used"

  • Thus Everett: "It is never used except as a secondary foot, and then in the first place of the line.

  • But as our language is not favourable to the use of the spondee and moloss, the moloss is seldom or never used in our English Sapphics; but, instead of which, some other trissyllable foot is used.

  • I never used to shoot with more than one ball, and was usually able to hit my mark at two hundred cubits, which cannot be done by other ways of loading.

  • It happened on one occasion that Ascanio, who came twice a day to visit me, asked to have a jacket cut out for him from a blue silk vest of mine I never used.

  • They are very seldom or never used but in other compositions, yet naturally they heat cold stomachs, help digestion, strengthen the heart and brain.

  • Valor is courage exhibited in war, and can not be applied to single combats; it is never used figuratively.

  • They is never used adjectively, but always as a pronoun proper, and sometimes refers to persons without an antecedent expressed.

  • Some nouns, on account of their meaning, are seldom or never used in the plural.

  • A few verbs (marked *) which are seldom or never used in ordinary language are included in this list.

  • The distinction, however, is clear, for the present participle is never used as the name of an action.

  • Hence it is never used of man's love to God, but only of the love of God to man,--of His mercy.

  • His habits of feeding, also, were refined; he never used a knife, and he would put up his hand and draw the fork down to his mouth as gracefully as a grown person.

  • The Greek artists, it seems to be well established, never used a model, as our artists almost invariably do, in their plastic and pictorial creations.

  • But many surnames which are taken from the names of trades come from Old English words which are now seldom or never used.

  • At one time English babies were sometimes christened Christmas, but this is never used as a Christian name now, though a few families have it as a surname.

  • Some of these were seldom or never used afterwards, but some became ordinary English words.

  • Never used in the sense of "by the side of.

  • Never used as "with" in the sense of the instrument or means by which something is done (see per, par.

  • It is never used to give the meaning of badness, unless because it is prefixed to some word signifying goodness.

  • Annie, my manner to you is insufferable, and it never used to be.

  • He never used to drink at all; it is bad for him.

  • I have never lied, and I never used to find fault with my lot, but since I have begun to complain of everything, I find fault with it involuntarily, and against my will.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "never used" 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:
    four braccia; may here; never again; never allowed; never appeared; never ceased; never does; never even; never forgot; never give; never hear; never heed; never learned; never liked; never loved; never more; never occurred; never remember; never said; never saw; never speak; never took; never want; really ought; runoff election; whistling sound