never-never

Definitions

Examples

• The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.

• He looks like a man who should have had kids, but now never will.

• In an email exchange a friend said many had repeated this same succinct review but they could never elaborate.

• Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.

• For many years afterward it was a never-ending topic of conversation, and is more or less talked of even to this day.

• Bessires was included because he would never win it at any later date, but his doglike devotion made him a priceless subordinate.

• Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.

• Arches more graceful in form, or better fitted to defy the assaults of time, I have never seen.

• The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.

• The King of Delhi had a hunting-lodge somewhere in the locality, but he had never seen the place.