Sentence examples for it ever really was from inspiring English sources

Cole had two attempts to win the job outright — if it ever really was a competition.

The debacle that is Deflategate has long stopped being about underinflated footballs – if it ever really was.

merely obsessed with whether it is as obsessed about class as it used to be (if it ever really was), the survey got widespread attention.

It features interviews with New York theater veterans ranging from Julie Harris to Carol Channing, from the Nicholas Brothers and Stephen Sondheim to Mrs. Hart, all talking about an enchanted realm of white-tie glamour and unflagging creative industry that ceased to be -- if it ever really was -- long ago.

It's not 2007: online streaming is no longer a competitive moat (if it ever really was one).

But that is no longer true, if it ever really was.

But while playing music has never been Moyles' strong point, neither has it ever really been the point.

Can it ever really be any more than a vaguely espionage-themed caper round the outer reaches of the Marvel movie universe?

Oh, it wasn't science fiction any more (had it ever really been?) there was too much waving of screwdrivers and flying of spaceships looking like the Titanic and "the day has been saved because".

"It was as close as it could ever really be in Bahrain and we didn't crash and so I don't think that's going to be the case".

Not that it can ever really be finished: there is always another way to search.