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Example sentences for "should ever"

  • Be assured, if I should ever be reduced to the unhappy choice of sacrificing myself or them, I would not hesitate a moment.

  • If a lover, a friend, should ever come to talk to you of gratitude, would you not say to him with indignation, Withdraw, you are a worthless man?

  • I had no need of reflection to wish every thing that concerns, or that could be prejudicial to her, should ever be kept secret from the world.

  • He received it upon giving an obligation to restore the first bill, if it should ever be found, or to pay the money himself, if it should be presented by any stranger.

  • He now smiled, and said he did not think he should ever wish to say his lessons to Miss Harold, as long as he lived.

  • Holt was very miserable, for he was deep in debt, and the boys never let him alone about it; and he did not see how he should ever pay, as nobody was likely to give him any money.

  • Who would have thought then that we should ever be able to count upon our fingers the day when not a single Goth would be left to tread Italian soil?

  • I should ever give my last and largest diamonds for half a rock-marten!

  • He said they grew in Hindoostan and on the highest peaks of the Uriah Mountains; and he sez, "How strange that he should ever live to see 'em.

  • I want to tell you that if my girl, Tirzah Ann, should ever go to Spain under the circumstances I speak on, and should light up her pipe in the Escurial, I should want you to put it out for her.

  • Undoubtedly, if it be clear that the possession of Italy is necessary for our security, we have a right to keep possession of it, if we should ever be able to master it by the sword.

  • I made a vow at a time when I little thought I should ever be able to accomplish it," said the unknown with a singular smile; "and I made some others also which I hope I may fulfil in due season.

  • I cannot hope to be very fluent, but I certainly should have no difficulty in explaining my wants and wishes; and that would be quite as much as I should ever require.

  • That I should ever have dreaded it appears now a most astonishing fact, except that I knew it would humble me to the dust.

  • This may seem more than the Gospel requires, but I believe, if we knew ourselves thoroughly, we should ever be suspicious of all feelings which led to personal comparisons.

  • The changes which the past year has made in my life are so amazing, when I view them in a body, that I cannot but be astonished that we should ever attempt to look forward with any thing like calculation or plan.

  • I married such a man as the Signor, I should ever have to bewail my lot?

  • I little thought, when I came with my lady to see the world, that I should ever be shut up in such a place as this, or I would never have left my own country!

  • Oh, could I now be certain, that I should ever return to ye, and find that Valancourt still lived for me, I should go in peace!

  • Banishment ensued; and lest he should ever be restored, the mistress persuaded the King that he had poisoned her predecessor Madame de Chateauroux.

  • No works of fiction, which tend to throw the allurements of taste and genius around vice and crime, should ever be tolerated; and all that tend to give false views of life and duty, should also be banished.

  • In doing this, it should ever be borne in mind, that nothing is more difficult, than to change old habits, and to learn to be thoughtful and considerate.

  • In the first place, no amusements, which inflict needless pain, should ever be allowed.

  • Therefore I said, and started to notice how literally my words imitated other words, the secondary meaning of which had struck me differently from their first, "that it was not likely I should ever be married.

  • You may remember my once saying it was not likely I should ever marry.

  • Illustration: If I should ever become a dryad I should choose to be transformed into a white birch.

  • A German comedy is like a German sentence: you see no reason in its structure why it should ever come to an end, and you accept the conclusion as an arrangement of Providence rather than of the author.

  • I have them at my finger-ends if I should ever happen to want them suddenly, affords me much inward repose and consolation in many troubled hours of life.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "should ever" 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:
    food crops; modern criticism; much about; should advise; should also; should always; should appear; should bear; should bring; should come; should ever; should fail; should fall; should give; should imagine; should just; should lose; should only; should require; should send; should strive; should tell; should think; should think you would; should vote; something like