ne'er
Americanadverb
adverb
Example Sentences
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She was such a sure thing In the year Nineteen Eleven Titanic we’ll raise her to the surface one day, and Prove to ourselves she ne’er knew, folly under heav’n.
From New York Times • May 6, 2022
One high-level supervisor said Koutris had a reputation as a “lazy ne’er do well.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2022
Peter Quill, aka Star-Lord, is still a man plucked from Earth in the ’80s to live a ne’er do well life in space before cleaning up his act.
From The Verge • Oct. 27, 2021
Unfortunately, the Yanks turned tail and fled to the hinterlands, and so the words “Fortitude battles our fear on the Mall. Fortitude battles our fear” were ne’er remembered.
From Washington Post • May 7, 2020
“I ne’er could make it,” she was saying.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
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