never to return
idiom
—used to say that someone never went back to a place
She left home never to return.
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In black ink, cursive style, Dad harkened back to 1930s Lowell: The things lost, never to return, captured only in memory now.
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Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Escola’s brazenly ahistorical Mary Todd is one of those devilish comic creations, such as Jiminy Glick or Pee-wee Herman, that seems less invented than sprung free, never to return.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Their hits got banished from the radio, never to return until now.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2024
At a hearing a few years earlier, a case had fallen apart when a woman walked off the witness stand in the middle of testifying, never to return.
—Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
Within four months, Matt’s bipolar cycling had resolved, never to return.
—David Baszucki, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2024
Sometimes students would leave at the end of the day, never to return.
—Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
For reasons revealed late in the novel, her home life deteriorated significantly in her teens, leading her to pick a distant college, never to return.
—Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2024
With the exception of local colleges that draw students from across the area, the city’s Arab population — a prewar majority — has mostly fled, or been expelled since 1948, never to return, as part of what Palestinians call the Nakba.
—Damien Cave Amit Elkayam, New York Times, 23 May 2024
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Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Escola’s brazenly ahistorical Mary Todd is one of those devilish comic creations, such as Jiminy Glick or Pee-wee Herman, that seems less invented than sprung free, never to return.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Their hits got banished from the radio, never to return until now.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2024
At a hearing a few years earlier, a case had fallen apart when a woman walked off the witness stand in the middle of testifying, never to return.
—Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
Within four months, Matt’s bipolar cycling had resolved, never to return.
—David Baszucki, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2024
Sometimes students would leave at the end of the day, never to return.
—Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
For reasons revealed late in the novel, her home life deteriorated significantly in her teens, leading her to pick a distant college, never to return.
—Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2024
With the exception of local colleges that draw students from across the area, the city’s Arab population — a prewar majority — has mostly fled, or been expelled since 1948, never to return, as part of what Palestinians call the Nakba.
—Damien Cave Amit Elkayam, New York Times, 23 May 2024
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“Never to return.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/never%20to%20return. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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