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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
never-ending
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ To Miguel, the boredom of married life seemed never-ending.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His was a never-ending search for a fix.
▪ I saw it as a never-ending drain on our meagre stock of rope and timber.
▪ People went in and out of her home in a never-ending procession.
▪ That is the latest bizarre instalment in the never-ending story of extraordinary events at Underhill.
▪ The descent is never-ending - I am glad - until Tony comes towards me.
▪ The youngsters, ages 2 to 17, provide a never-ending source of story lines.
▪ Their life had become a never-ending trudge to keep the Looms of the necromancer weaving dreadful enchantments.
▪ They are a kind of a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
never-ending

never-ending \never-ending\ adj. endless or seemingly endless; as, the never-ending search for happiness.

Syn: endless, interminable.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
never-ending

also neverending, 1660s, from never + present participle of end (v.).

Wiktionary
never-ending

a. (alternative form of neverending English)

WordNet
never-ending

adj. uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger" [syn: ceaseless, constant, incessant, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting]

Wikipedia
Never-Ending

Never-Ending is the 3rd studio album by German power metal group Mystic Prophecy, released in October 2004. This is the last album of a trilogy and also the last to feature Gus G and Dennis Ekdahl.

Usage examples of "never-ending".

Harun al Raschid returned to his very distant land where the populace did indeed enjoy a never-ending series of fart jokes, and Sinbad and Fatima were returned to human form after a most enjoyable apehood, and then were accompanied back to Baghdad by Achmed and his new bride, Marjanah, and all were showered with gifts from that elder Sinbad, who was rich again, at least for the time being, and was much relieved to see them.

I figured I had about a week and a half left of exchanging leftover baht and rupees before I completely ran out of cash, and the only way to get money from my parents was to return to the never-ending circuit of second opinions.

Occasionally De Coude dropped in, but the multitudinous affairs of his official position and the never-ending demands of politics kept him from home usually until late at night.

MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 IN LONDON AND MOSCOW, Volume 5c--THE ENGLISH THE ENGLISH CHAPTER X Eccentricity of the English--Castelbajac Count Schwerin--Sophie at School--My Reception at the Betting Club--The Charpillon I passed a night which seemed like a never-ending nightmare, and I got up sad and savage, feeling as if I could kill a man on the smallest provocation.

Debbie, our son, Gabriel, and my parents, Barbara Blatner-Fikes, Richard Fikes, Adam and Allee Blatner, and Don and Snookie Carlson, for their never-ending support and love.

Love the scratching to mark territory, the biting, the onomatopoetic sounds, grabbing her hair above her ears and giving her a deep and never-ending kiss, all the wild and spontaneous things that happen during congress.

Cassie was never idle for long, preparing a small plate of sandwiches to take up to Pilar in between sips of coffee and the never-ending dialogue.

Motilin, dopamine, taurine and many other neurotransmitters cascaded in a never-ending flood.

I seriously doubt I could stomach a never-ending round of tonnish life.

The dark forces of history without God may have defeated this Ivan Tsarevich and his sleeping princess, but it would be almost perverse to claim that the chief implication of the silence and immobility is ongoing dialogue, continued movement, never-ending struggle.

Louis was the great advocate, if not the absolute originator, was an attempt to substitute series of carefully recorded facts, rigidly counted and closely compared, for those never-ending records of vague, unverifiable conclusions with which the classics of the healing art were overloaded.

Miss Pole, Miss Matty, and I, meanwhile attended to Miss Brown: and hard work we found it to relieve her querulous and never-ending complaints.

Truly, it was a man of letters who said it, avenging himself on his profession for the never-ending toil it imposed, by miscalling it, with grim pleasantry, the architecture of the nursery.

The simple fact was that the intervals between his lectures were so crowded with multifarious, pressing, and never-ending demands upon his time and strength that he could seldom determine upon the precise subject long enough in advance for him, or any one else, to bring together the desirable specimens or even charts.

But disciplining the flesh in this kind of way is a repetitious and never-ending task.