ALWAYS in a Sentence

Learn ALWAYS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

404 example sentences for ALWAYS, such as:

1. The used key is always bright.
2. A fool always rushes to the fore.
3. A fool always rushed to the fore.
4. I've always been glad I said that.
5. A rich man's joke is always funny.

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 Meanings and Examples of ALWAYS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
always
 ad.  at any time or in any event
 ad.  without variation or change, in every case
Classic Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
1  Our conversations are not always confined to his own history and misfortunes.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
2  Benny McClenahan arrived always with four girls.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
3  I keep it always full of interesting people, night and day.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
4  When she's had five or six cocktails she always starts screaming like that.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
5  "You always look so cool," she repeated.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
6  I've always been glad I said that.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
7  We were always thanking him for that--I and the others.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
8  Jimmy always liked it better down East.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
9  He always had some resolves like this or something.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
10  But, indeed, he was blind and foolish, as he ever and always is.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
11  He has felt an influence dwelling always upon him like a curse.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
12  Margaret's sagacity was not always displayed in a way so satisfactory to her sister.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
13  I always preferred the church, as I still do.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
14  Wherever they went, she was evidently always on the watch.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
15  And so I shall always say, my dear, you may depend on it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
Example Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
16  A duck will not always dabble in the same gutter.
17  A fish always rots from the head down.
18  The greatest talkers are always the least doers.
19  A fool always rushed to the fore.
20  The bread always falls buttered side down.
21  The used key is always bright.
22  Satan always finds work for idle hands.
23  There's always more fish in the sea.
24  The path to glory is always rugged.
25  A fool always rushes to the fore.
26  A poor workman always blames his tools.
27  The creditor has always a better memory than the detor.
28  Example is always more efficacious than precept.
29  A rich man's joke is always funny.
30  A fool always finds a greater fool than himself.