Sample Sentences for
nevertheless
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    ... she now has a pig. A small one, to be sure, but nevertheless a pig.  (source)
    nevertheless = still (used to connect contrasting ideas)
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    Harry had been braced to hear it, but it was a blow nevertheless.  (source)
    nevertheless = anyway (despite that)
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    Today the water looks considerably lower than it looks in the photographs McCandless took twelve months ago, but to try to ford the river here, in thundering midsummer flood, is nevertheless unthinkable.  (source)
    nevertheless = despite that (used to connect contrasting ideas)
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    He was dressed normally, but the practiced eyes of the crystal merchant could see that the boy had no money to spend. Nevertheless, the merchant decided to delay his lunch for a few minutes until the boy moved on.  (source)
    Nevertheless = despite that (used to connect contrasting ideas)
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    Only the ashes of all her fine fancies were remaining-ashes still concealing, never the less, a few red embers of hope.†  (source)
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    The place was self-sufficient: modest in comparison with the empires around it, the Landing nevertheless produced everything required to sustain life except ice, wheat flour, and articles of clothing, supplied by river-boats from Mobile.  (source)
    nevertheless = still (used to connect contrasting ideas)
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    He is too great a niggard that will werne* *forbid A man to light a candle at his lantern; He shall have never the less light, pardie.†  (source)
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    Meg tried to keep the franticness out of her voice, trying to sound as drained of feeling as Charles, but nevertheless ending on a squeak.  (source)
    nevertheless = despite that (used to connect contrasting ideas)
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    To the European world the whole province was a barbaric frontier inhabited by a sect of fanatics who, nevertheless, were shipping out products of slowly increasing quantity and value.  (source)
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    Look at Judith, sitting there with her hands folded in her lap. Didn't her feet ever go to sleep? Nevertheless, if this were a test of endurance, then she could see it through as well as these New Englanders.  (source)
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    Mama slept and didn't wake even to say hello. Nevertheless, Esperanza sat next to her, crocheted a few rows on the blanket and told Mama about the sheds and Isabel and the strikers.  (source)
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    Maybe it wasn't the door out of Ember, but it was a mystery nevertheless—a mystery connected, she was sure, to the bigger mystery they were trying to solve.  (source)
    nevertheless = anyway (despite that)
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    A worker [bee] is just over a centimeter long and weighs only about sixty milligrams; nevertheless, she can fly with a load heavier than herself.  (source)
    nevertheless = still (used to connect contrasting ideas)
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