How to Use even if in a Sentence

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  • March’s Feel Good Recipes March marks the start of spring, even if there’s still snow on the ground.
    Urmila Ramakrishnan, Bon Appétit, 1 Mar. 2025
  • That way, even if your drives fail, your data is still backed up in the cloud.
    Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The numbers start to numb even if the dominance does not.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 28 July 2024
  • In the meantime, no one is assigned to the case, even if the defendant is in jail.
    Caleb Bedillion, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2023
  • One of the most common fights or arguments are about where the fans point and even if the fans should be on or off.
    Daniel White, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2024
  • And even if they’re destroyed, people would rather be in their homes than be refugees.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2024
  • The stars are aligning in your love life this month, even if there are no strings attached at first.
    Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 7 June 2024
  • So my view is no, even if the Rangers miss the playoffs, neither is getting fired.
    Arthur Staple, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The beans ground with water had a longer extraction time and a stronger brew, even if they were made with the same beans.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Dec. 2023
  • This forces schools to purchase new Chromebooks, even if the machines are still in good shape.
    Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • But even if Tatum asked, Moore isn’t totally sold on the idea of reprising her role.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2024
  • But even if a storm like that made it to Matthew’s parents’ neighborhood, their house rests on a mound.
    Sharif Paget, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
  • That’s still true to a large extent, even if the number of swing voters has sharply declined since then.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Stay grounded, even if your head is full of big dreams and expansion plans.
    Teja Chekuri, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
  • But, even if your state ranked low in the listings, the experts in the WalletHub study shared that happiness is still up to you.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The unspoken rule: When in doubt, act like the men around the table, even if the company dress code requires you to wear a skirt.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024
  • But even if the capsule is pared back, Halo aims to make the experience worthy of the high price.
    Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Giving her a gift card to a grocery store is likely to go over better, Givi says, even if the dollar amount is the same.
    Allie Volpe, Vox, 19 Nov. 2024
  • But even if that’s not the case, do the inflated numbers on the display count as greenwashing?
    Alden Wicker, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2024
  • For all of these reasons, there may not be an EAA Reservoir in a hundred years, even if rare ghost orchids still bloom in the area.
    Time, 12 July 2023
  • Most coffee beans, even if freshly roasted, sit stored as green beans for months.
    Alaina Chou, Bon Appétit, 1 Jan. 2025
  • But there is no long-range plan in place to make those fixes, and even if there were, the work would take years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2024
  • So the novelist made for a tricky subject, even if Morris and I could never quite agree on why.
    David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • But even if the plane continues in cruise control, don’t panic.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Anyone who's ever been to the tournament knows the pimiento cheese sandwich isn't to be missed—even if the recipe did change a few years ago.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The examples are endless, even if Trump has only been in office for a few weeks.
    Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The money matters, even if a wide-body contract has never enabled a player to buy the other part of the dream.
    Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 28 July 2024
  • With all of the cookouts going on today, most grocers will be open, even if Costco isn’t.
    Bychris Morris, Fortune, 4 July 2024
  • As many investors hold out hope that Trump can strike agreements with key trading partners to avoid the duties, the U.S. president left the door open – even if a key advisor didn’t.
    Jacob Pramuk, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The Patriots made a bunch of significant additions, which all add up to a great offseason, even if some of the players seemed overpaid.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025

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