How To Use Nothing In A Sentence

Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.
There's nothing at all wrong with a bit of human imperfection here and there.
He said nothing as he took his horse's reins and mounted up, the pain causing sparks to flash behind his eyes and his vision to fuzz a little around the edges.
The final section of the traverse was a bit of a challenge: delicate, balancey moves with next to nothing for hands or feet.

Words are confusing, but they're nothing compared to non-words, mainly because non-words lead to rash assumptions and misunderstandings.
Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good-will and kind conduct more speedily changed than by invidious jealousies and uncandid imputations, whether expressed or implied.
Although I have finally been given a small piece of work to do (nothing crucial, generous deadline), I'm finding it hard to apply myself after such a long period of enforced inactivity.
I have nothing to add to my earlier statement.
However, on the day, they showed such determination and resolution that nothing could stand between them and victory.
Back in the mid-1980s, for example, knee replacement surgery was considered a success if the patient wound up with 90 degrees of flexion, which is "nothing near normal," he says. Latest News
This was physical attraction, sexual temptation, nothing more.
Nothing political -- nothing _political_! "he exclaimed. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life
Nothing much happened except that I discovered the automatic paper towel dispenser and proceeded to contort my body into various positions to get the thing to work.
So it was either scurvy-flavored hookers and gin-soaked alkies, or nothing at all. PAUL IS UNDEAD
Second, if a Palestinian state is recognized along the 1967 lines in point of fact, nothing more than the 1949 armistice lines, this undermines UN Security Council Resolution 242 and 338 and the Camp David Accords, which call for a negotiated outcome and do not predetermine final boundaries. David Harris: Support Peace: Oppose Palestinian UN Gambit
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating, people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Mr. Kelly added that it would be wrong to condemn the lack of a parade and then do nothing about it.
Of course there's nothing wrong with necking a few beers and getting caught up in the buzz of the World Cup.
There's nothing you can do to change the little ones' minds about the gewgaws and gimcracks they expect to find beneath the tree - or to stop your in-laws' annual onslaught, for that matter.
acting as if nothing borne in mind is the best revenge.it's all for myself to live better.
I knew what the lady had said was just a lie cooked up by my lazy, good-for-nothing parents to get me to come home.
Her own valuers had estimated that the property was worth £150,000 on the basis of agricultural use of the surrounding land, and virtually nothing on the basis of mining and/or landfill operations.
Surely you appreciate that for those who regularly attack Israel and its suporters, “Likud” is a label fraught with negative implications that have nothing to do with the political realities within Israel. The Volokh Conspiracy » Human Rights Watch Update
His grand-sounding name 'Tintoretto' means nothing but 'the little dyer,' and it was given to him because of his father's trade. Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters
Too much spoils, too little is nothing.
One minister counseled his people, let us do nothing to rekindle the slumbering fires of prejudice between the two races. A Renegade History of the United States
Anybody can be anybody they want when they are sitting in mommies basement with nothing to do but get online and call people dumbasses. Is “The Fourth Kind” real or fake? Secrets revealed » Scene-Stealers
I peered over. There stood Sir Henry doing nothing less than a 11)tribal war dance of sheer unashamed 12)ecstasy.
I quickly racked my brain for the answer, only to turn up with nothing but a blank.
Granted, we have reams of remote sensing data from that first investigation, including the information from the detailed dissection of the spider biot done by Dr. Laura Ernst. But the cosmonauts brought home only one artifact, a tiny piece of some kind of biomechanical flower whose physical characteristics had already irreversibly changed before any of its mysteries could be understood, We have nothing else in the way of souvenirs from that first excursion. Rama Revisited
But the howling vacuum had opened up inside her again, with its endless vistas of nothingness and no return, the harlequinade of grasping, painted lovers. Shortcut Man
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
One such is the following chart, which can be used to devise typical bureaucratic phrases that sound impressive but mean nothing.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
His eyes were black too, but had nothing of fierce or insolent; on the contrary, a certain melancholy swimmingness, that described hopeless love rather than a natural amorous languish. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
She hears nothing but the breeze rustling the curtains of her bedroom window, and the angry blare of the television coming from her father's bedroom.
_Pretty well married_, you know, implies 2000_l. _ a-year; and very well married, nothing under Tales and Novels — Volume 07
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some scrambling is involved but nothing too severe.
There was no rattle, as of seashells in a jar, and nothing came rolling on to the towel.
I'd have been content to wait out the weather in my tent, but Ron consulted his topo map and we headed off, marching along a streambed into foggy nothingness, south toward the foothills.
At street-side stalls that are sometimes nothing more than a bowl on the ground, fish are gutted and sold and vegetables haggled over.
But nothing prepared them for life in this squatters' community of Tijuana, a city of three million souls that is known as the Wild West of Mexico's northward immigration.
Why, I'm sure that Saint John the Do-As-I-Say-Not-As-I-Do Populist's votes had nothing to do with the corporate interests in North Carolina that he might find necessary to court later (or pay back for an earlier campaign donation). Tonight: The Jefferson-Jackson Dinner
There was a Malay steward behind each chair, and over in the corner, silent but missing nothing, the squint-faced Jingo; even he had exchanged his loin-cloth for a silver sarong, with hornbill feathers in his hair and decorating the shaft of his sumpitan* (* Blowpipe.) standing handy against the wall. Flashman's Lady
There seems to be a general notion that nothing can be done about the problem.
Consequently, the practical politicians and their realistic programs can create nothing but a disaster.
Traitorfish said: I know that’s clichéd, but I really never liked Captain America - a superhero that nationalistic is nothing but creepy. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The Death of Captain America
From 80s synth poppers to black-leathered stadium rockers, Depeche Mode are nothing if not resilient.
If you desire something strong enough and are determined to get it, there is nothing that you cannot accomplish. Dr Roopleen
Nothing is impossible to willing mind (or heart).
I've given you the password to my heart in all its anagrammatic permutations; but you seem to insist this is nothing but a start; so herewith, at last comes the story of my first puppy— Spill
The trick is that Juan graduated from a hard school and nothing fazes him.
At the root of the problem is nothing so mundane as access to the hills and glens but the booming industry in Scottish barony titles that sell on average for £55,000 each.
Nothing was that different from what could be seen in Los Angeles, except that the signs were all in French and there were no SUVs in sight.
Hamlet as a play is similarly preoccupied by slander, misrepresentation and selves fabricated from the nothings of rhetorical tropes.
McCain is nothing but a nebish and shlimazl ... just like this shlump of a preacher ... McCain officially rejects Hagee endorsement
By the way, my husband's theory is that Mexicans put chile on everything because their tastebuds are ruined from so many years of such "picante" food that nothing tastes like anything to them without chile. Something I just can't get used to
Usually I can cajole him into cereal, toast or a banana, but this morning - nothing.
Nothing wrong with that especially when the resulting outcome is something bordering on a religious experience of aural ecstatic proportions.
This old, and now rare traditional variety has deep, full-bodied apple aromas, which hold nothing back on a super juicy palate.
Looking back over the many extracurricular activities that our children have dabbled in at different stages, nothing has enriched their lives more than music.
The value of all this free promotion is incalculable, which is no doubt why so many Republicans are using politics as merely a way to cash in big time as nothing more than entertainers. Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Weiner Roast
The Other in Being and Nothingness alienates or objectifies us (in this work Sartre seems to use these terms equivalently) and the third party is simply this Other writ large. Jean-Paul Sartre
A joyful date to keep in mind and make a note of, is when a birthday comes around to you.Thank you for your love which makes our home warm and beautiful.It is only with you that I find true contentment. Nothing will ever come between us.Happy birthday to you!
But as if divining his thoughts -- just as they passed through the dining-room door, Euphra looked round at him, almost over Funkelstein's shoulder, and, without putting into her face the least expression discernible by either of the others following, contrived to banish for the time all Hugh's despair, and to convince him that he had nothing to fear from Funkelstein. David Elginbrod
She stood in front of him with a horsewhip, wearing a smile and nothing else.
Nothing had felt this good since he had slept in Awi's wickiup, with the Dakota snow outside and the smell of cinnamon and long grass in his nose.
Ironic, because this is genuinely naked food, stripped bare, revealing all, hiding nothing.
But suppose, Maggie, suppose it was a man who was not conceited, who felt he had nothing to be conceited about; who had been marked from childhood for a peculiar kind of suffering, and to whom you were the day-star of his life; who loved you, worshipped you, so entirely that he felt it happiness enough for him if you would let him see you at rare moments15 IV. Another Love-Scene. Book V—Wheat and Tares
I'm a lazy good-for-nothing at heart, so I don't want to waste my precious leisure time paying bills.
Nothing kills the festive spirit as much as someone whisking under your feet with a dustpan and brush, folding up wrapping paper and tutting about all the pine needles.
Nothing has been seen like this in prosthetics before.
The 16th century palace in south-west London is well known for alleged supernatural activity, but nothing suspicious has been caught on film before.
Puffas/ subzero parkas are fine if you're sitting around doing nothing. Times, Sunday Times
Nothing seek, nothing find.
June 26th, 2009 6: 31 am csis violate canadians individuals civils rights. my civils rights was violated 21 years ago. nothing was done about this. csis believe that l am God. lt will take years to explain. this has been top secret for decades. l would like an investigation and compensation outside csis. CSIS Doesn’t Protect Canadians : Law is Cool
At one of those remarkable omnium-gatherum receptions at the Tuileries, of which I have spoken in a former chapter, she heard an American lady, to whom Louis Philippe was talking of his American recollections and of various persons he had known there, say to him, “Oh, sire, they all retain the most lively recollections of your majesty's sojourn among them, and wish nothing more than that you should return among them again!” What I Remember
We haven't verified that it works, and if you want to mess around with your Windows Registry, as it suggests, that's your own affair and nothing to do with us, squire.
The technical details mean nothing to the average punter.
The so - called golden - collar gentry are essentially nothing but brain - workers with high income.
He tried wiggling the control stick but nothing happened.
Nothing, in short, evinced to the august visitors any symptom of a reverse of fortune, such as they had been led to expect, in the position and circumstances of Marie de Medicis. The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 3
In person, he projects a vulnerability that's nothing short of endearing.
If this were not so, everything would look flat, and then one could distinguish nothing save only a chequerwork of colours. Albert Durer
I have also tried a number of our strongest tranquilizing drugs, but nothing seems to curb his anger.
For those who know nothing of the quick-step, the shake or the twist, there is a late night disco.
They can cause dust devils and whirlwinds, though these are nothing when compared to the immense dust storms that can occur.
We won't wear "bloomers," or make any attempt to imitate you in our dress, manners, or occupations; we will do nothing to offend the most fastidious, we will be women still. The Womans Advocate
Failing to do so imperils his chances by giving us nothing to be excited about, much less to work for and a likely dismal voter turnout.
Assuming of course (4) that Germany, which wants to revise the Lisbon Treaty to apply the new rules EU-wide, and France, which wants nothing to do with a re-opening of the Treaty and therefore wants the fines to apply only in euroland, can resolve their differences. Euroland Should Prepare for More Ups and Downs in Its Yo-Yo Economy
They both tried to talk of ordinary things for the few moments before that meal was announced, and then some kind of devilment seemed to come into Amaryllis -- nothing could have been more seductive or alluring than her manner, while keeping to strict convention. The Price of Things
We've run the computer program, but nothing happens.
I stooped down to try and see through the _rahar_ who was there but the crop was so thick that I could see nothing; so I climbed up the mowah tree to look. Folklore of the Santal Parganas
Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph. Charles Dickens
They care about nothing but themselves and their self-centered ideology.
I've been muddling about all morning, and got nothing done.
Her eyes missed nothing; her dainty close-set ears heard all -- the short, dry note of a chewink, the sweet, wholesome song of the cardinal, the thrilling cries of native jays and woodpeckers, the heavenly outpoured melody of the Florida wren, perched on some tiptop stem, throat swelling under the long, delicate, upturned bill. The Firing Line
I see nothing wrong with clasping them above the waist.
Nothing was too large: the composition of the Host in the mass; the conduct of priests.
There was nothing but mud-slinging, exaggerations, outright lies and immature namecalling.
In truth it was all he could do to contain himself, and he felt that his only chance of bearing up was to say nothing more than was absolutely necessary in short ejaculatory phrases. Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure
Then the sage asked his student the question, ‘How is that a huge fig tree could have grown from nothing?’
Siberia a country in which nothing will grow; in some parts there is wheat, and where _wheat_ will not grow _barley_ will, and where _barley_ will not grow _turnips_ will. Far Off
The result of any fruitful worldview is a firm, self-confident life order that is perceived as necessary, as a reality, about which there is nothing uncertain or disputable.
There's nothing quite like the shock of the alarm going off in the morning.
When the sudden silence had enfolded the room in its velvet cloak, he had known that he was nothing, absolutely nothing compared to the wielder of such power.
There was nothing the matter with the director's plans on this occasion; every detail of the "freshet" had been made ready for with exactness and with prodigious regard to detail. Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies
From most of the preachers and all the humbugs they expect nothing else.
Look at a stone cutter hitting at the rock. Nothing happens at first, but after many strikes, the rocks eventually cracks. In life, don't doubt. Keep at it and it will happen. RVM
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of past experience.
Nothing demotivates people like the equal treatment of unequals.
I believe that Email, Twitter, and other forms of electronic communication is a tremendous help in communication, but nothing beats “print” form. The golden age of the newspaper this is not « The Book Publicity Blog
Nothing cements a friendship between countries so much as trade.
I do my share of driving and I had no idea all that cutting people off and speeding and changing lanes without signaling and blowing through stop signs was "choreographed"--no wonder I find driving to say nothing of cycling in New York City so irritating. People Are People: Dealing With It
Miracle recovery, hit me like a ton of bricks and then it was over in nothing flat, blah blah blah.
Nothing could heal the rupture with his father.
Nothing satisfies these people, because now they cannot abide clarity in anyone but themselves.
The stimulatory effects of a strong cup of coffee in the morning may be nothing more than an illusion. Times, Sunday Times
One such is the following chart, which can be used to devise typical bureaucratic phrases that sound impressive but mean nothing.
Nothing seemed to be astray, everything was in its place.
There was nothing that bothered him more than seeing his friends in bad moods, for he knew what it felt like to be in a slump.
I but stretched them up in the sun," she sniffled, "and we be poor people and have nothing. THE MASTER OF MYSTERY
Nothing could console him when his pet dog died.
So it will prove in the future, for nothing can frustrate the evolutionary movement nor prevent humanity as a whole from attaining and achieving its purpose.
He was no longer a farmer, just an ordinary man who owned the clothes he was wearing and nothing more.
The premise of harried parents trying to raise quintuplets is interesting, but they do nothing with it. 108747998260188265 « Michael in Nashville
Religious scholars will recognize immediately that talk of "The Christ" or World Teacher his nothing to do with the Christian Messiah but a different chap called Maitreya or Djwahl Kuhl who, in the Christian religion has another name and who the Rolling Stones had sympathy for. Archive 2008-02-01
I was standing by the paddock surveying the latest in a line of equine flatterers and good-for-nothing loafers in which I was about to invest.
If any of the two terms of an affirmative categorical is "empty", then the term in question refers to nothing.
The neighbours in unofficial whispers talk about his activities but officially they know nothing.
She wants nothing more than a normal life with a proper home and a regular wage, and she is prepared to go to desperate lengths to try to keep the casual factory jobs she gets and loses on a regular basis.
Celebrity doesn't place any demands on a person; it requires nothing but itself.
You are nothing more than a GOP apologist suckhole sycophant tool … … .. Think Progress » Gregg: Not ‘A Lot Of People’ Would ‘Really Care’ If Democrats Use Reconciliation To Finish Health Care
Yet even clouds cast shadows, and stars keep changeless patterns and turn circles around the earth, but the rainbow was nothing but a brilliant, beautiful, empty glow in a world made fresh by rain.
My fists clenched and unclenched as I tried to think of some comeback to scream at her but nothing came to mind.
Many secret orders sprang up, and when outsiders made interrogations of supposed members, they were answered with a statement that the person knew nothing, which is why members were called Know-Nothings.
Love Israel/Palestine or leave it, like Simone Bitton's politics or not, the film RACHEL deserves to be seen and Cindy Corrie deserves to be heard because, if nothing else, Rachel was an exceptional "girl-next-door. Undefined
He knew nothing of the elaborate machinery of ingenious chicane, - such as feigning bankruptcy - fraudulent conveyances - making over to his wife - running property - and had never heard of such tricks of trade as sending out coffins to the graveyard, with negroes inside, carried off by sudden spells of imaginary disease, to be "resurrected," in due time, grinning, on the banks of the Brazos. The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,
Yet I feel pretty sure that recreating the messianic zeal about Early Intervention that I felt that day in Granton would do nothing but good.
Jon's suite, which makes up the entirety of the original Concerto record, is nothing better than a bad mixture of hard rock soloing and a rather childish idea of classical music.
There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty. Steve Maraboli
I was a conscienceless exploiter of men, a ruiner of families, a disgusting plutocrat who cared nothing for anyone but myself. The envelopes
The governor is enforcing the law, nothing wrong with that. mother in pa Steele talks immigration policy in meeting with Hispanic activists
A typical exchange of views between city-dwellers: nothing to get fazed about. COMPULSION
There was two or three chairs, that might have been worth, in their best days, from eightpence to a shilling a – piece; a small deal table, an old corner cupboard with nothing in it, and one of those bedsteads which turn up half way, and leave the bottom legs sticking out for you to knock your head against, or hang your hat upon; no bed, no bedding. Sketches by Boz
He knew perfectly that I recommended nothing of the sort, and he must have been very angry to indulge in this _boutade_. The Path Of Duty
That the enemy had not singled Winfred out to be easy prey was nothing short of pure fortune, especially with the battle still raging before his eyes.
Aside from a few bemused looks from passers-by and a few words with the police, nothing untoward happened.
Soon all that was left was nothing more than a ghostly echo of a guilty conscience.
A wonderfully eerie musical score accompanies the two youngsters as they pound miles of wet roads for hours on end, experiencing nothing but uncertainty at every turn.
There is nothing permanent except change.
I was in hospital this morning for a gastroscopy - nothing too worrying, just one of those camera and light thingies they put down your throat to make sure everything's in one piece. Archive 2009-03-01
The heart of woman is a glass holding water. It is full but seems to have nothing inside.
We should emphasize that there is nothing particularly ethical about the market system as a mechanism for distributing output.
Otherwise nothing useful will be achieved and, instead of debate, we shall descend to the level of vulgar slanging matches.
They were replaced by shanties and shacks built of nothing more than clapboard or wattle and daub with dark and threatening alleyways between.
There's nothing that says exhausted, cranky and nauseous like vixen, is there? When Bad Things Happen to Bad Writers
The accused country has to prove its innocence, the accuser has to prove nothing.
Love is starting out with nothing but love.
I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. Horrible Boys
I went to his talk with great interest, but to my disappointment, nothing very new came forth.
I swear to God I had nothing to do with it.
I think I prefer to shift through information first and take my time to think about what I write - lest all that raw, reactive blabber does nothing but add to the noise.
He could find nothing to account for these unless it were the instruments for giving enemata, which had been used in two of the former cases and were employed by these patients. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
The value of our currency has sunk to almost nothing.
Nothing wrong ever came of being generous with your money, and he had enough to share.
By the late 1880s there was nothing terribly mysterious about getting a steam hammer to deliver a blow of so many tons.
Nothing lasts forever, so live it up; drink it down, laugh it off, avoid the bullshit. Take chances and never have regrets because, at one point, everything you did was exactly what you wanted. Marilyn Monroe
This device has a gripper that electrically twists off the jar top. Nothing to it.
You can face Lionel with a clear conscience -- you've done nothing to harm him.
Then again, it's got nothing to do with the gods when you've got a filthy temper, and that I certainly have.
There is little detail about retail and leisure developments so presumably nothing to catch the imagination is on its way.
Sometimes the country has to take precedence over a do-nothing imposter and pretender to the throne.
You've got to have a hide as thick as a rhinoceros to carry on and pretend nothing has happened.
Lady Macbeth has nothing personal against the men, women and children she must destroy to clear her husband's way to power - her purposefulness is pure.
Here various design moves unfold: nothing is what it seems, complexity unstitches singularity.
But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more. Hamlet
The outlay to make forged clay bullae -- clay lumps used to seal papyri and packages -- and add a biblical name to them is virtually nothing, and these things go for anywhere from $100,000 on up depending on what is on the bulla. Conversations: Forgery Fallout
Mr. Masson's discussions of Milton's English are, it seems to me, for the most part unsatisfactory He occupies some ten pages, for example, with a history of the genitival form _its_, which adds nothing to our previous knowledge on the subject and which has no relation to Milton except for its bearing on the authorship of some verses attributed to him against the most overwhelming internal evidence to the contrary. Among My Books Second Series
From the Whiskey Rebellion to the Know-Nothings to the reborn Militias of the 1990s, the eastern establishment has always had reason to fear the expression of a certain kind of cussed American individualism that rebels against what it sees as the encroachments of the state. Obama's Culture War
The great thing is that this voting has nothing whatsoever to do with the merits of the song, but gives the Eurovision nations an opportunity to buddy up with their neighbours or sneer at old enemies.
Those who attack health care workers deserve nothing less than lengthy jail sentences.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing well whatever you do without a thought of time.
It was a cavern in the side of a mountain, overshadowed with palm trees, at such a distance from the cataract that nothing more was heard than a gentle uniform murmur, such as composes the mind to pensive meditation, especially when it was assisted by the wind whistling among the branches. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
This is not a bad thing, it's just...it has nothing to do with comments per se unless you call inbound links "comments" and I don't and neither does Blogger—they're backlinks! Archive 2005-12-01
The volume of nursery-squealing was like flocking starlings; it was a mass table-hop murmuration — with nothing to eat. Times, Sunday Times
I have also tried a number of our strongest tranquilizing drugs, but nothing seems to curb his anger.
We just can't afford to buy a house at the moment. It's a seller's market, and there's nothing we can do about it.
I have nothing more to ask you about apart from these questions.
'Well, there's nothing we can do about it now,' she sighed.
So, they were asked to evaluate the candidates based on nothing else except their appearance, and the more attractive candidates were deemed... wait for it.... *more attractive*! One reason you might vote for Sarah Palin
There, he was humble enough to confess to himself, was a chartless, shoreless sea, about which he knew nothing and which he must nevertheless somehow navigate. Chapter XV
Perhaps you should be reading something other than my blog, that is nothing more than a chance for me to chitty chat with my people. It’s MY Party and I’ll Blog if I Want To « Bored Mommy
It just feeds the religious right's feeling of righteous besiegement while gaining almost nothing in practical terms.
“Myers,” presumably speaking through the medium, produced a stream of poetic, recondite associations from the word Lethe that meant nothing to the medium or the experimenter. Experiencing the Next World Now
If they get proper consent, then nothing prevents pathologists from carrying out post-mortems.
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

How To Use Nothing In A Sentence

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