How To Use Nowhere In A Sentence

The poor bugger has nowhere else to sleep.
He comes from nowhere to win this contest and immediately is able to grasp a lot of the intricacies of the moviemaking process.
And that culture was nowhere near moribund, but being kept alive, and by ordinary people as much as ‘elites’.
This animal is found in Australia, and nowhere else.
Still, it's nowhere near what he would command on the free-agent market.

Could the hearts of kings and the counsels of cabinets be known with that literal exactness which is so desirable in politics, and yet so unattainable, we should probably find that Prussia's apparent readiness to lead Germany was owing to her determination that German armies should be led nowhere to the assistance of Austria. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861
Flattery will get you nowhere.
In life, patience is the key. It's much better to be going somewhere slowly than nowhere fast.
My beagle chases rabbits which is basically the same as pointing birds and I have shot over her and she is nowhere near gunshy. Why are dogs used for upland bird hunting considered gun dogs while Beagles and other non-birddogs are not?
Nowhere was this ambiguity more apparent than concerning the question of sovereignty.
All these people seem to have appeared from nowhere.
Nowhere is this properly explained in the bumph. Times, Sunday Times
For the tumblebug was sincere in his insane doings, and all Philistia honored him sincerely, so that there was nowhere any hope for this people. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
The proposal went nowhere in the Senate.
I wanted to talk to him but he was nowhere to be found.
Repairing this damage would require at least a decade of relative quiescence, which is nowhere in sight. Michael T. Klare: The Blowback Effect: 2020
Although it is too early to draw definite conclusions, the message is clear; Higgs bosons have nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. Santhosh Mathew, PhD: Nowhere to Run, Bosons, Nowhere to Hide
I think that nowhere else in the mythologies are the Five Root-Races, the four past and the one existent, mentioned so clearly as here in The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
This is a magical world of railway tracks that lead nowhere and rope swings that are played like a harp by the wind. Times, Sunday Times
Nowhere is this more clear than in the scene when everyone first arrives on the island and sees a brachiosaur for the first time. Jurassic Park vs. Jurassic Park 3: Lament for a Fallen Franchise | /Film
Nowhere is language a more serious issue than in Hawaii.
Nowhere before or since has one column covered so many bases. Times, Sunday Times
Nowhere is that more important than buying racehorses. Times, Sunday Times
Example: 1983 was a very good vintage in the appellation of Margaux but nowhere else in Bordeaux that year. Investing in Liquid Assets
She lives in a poxy little village in the middle of nowhere.
If there is nowhere to stay, we'll have to camp out.
Nowhere in Scripture is the Old Testament law divided into moral/civil and ceremonial.
Then, out of nowhere, some idiot jumps me and screams profanities at me.
Having been duly warned that I would get nowhere with my application, I went right ahead and applied anyway.
exfoliated" surface sheets which here, too, gave it an inhuman, primeval look; in the higher sun the vast expanse looked, I suppose, more blindingly white; and nowhere did buildings or thickets seem to emerge. Over Prairie Trails
The minimum wage is nowhere near enough. Times, Sunday Times
Of course it’s romanticized from the point of view of a southerner, but that’s nowhere near any “propaganda for the slave system”. Matthew Yglesias » Rep Trent Franks: Blacks Were Better Off Under Slavery
He's just been asked why, within months of becoming leader, David Cameron had donned salopettes to travel to the Arctic with huskies in a demonstration of a new leader with new values, but at a similar stage in his leadership Ed Miliband is at home in north London, new Timberland deck shoes sparkling, nowhere near the north pole but in a living room with a beautiful cream carpet the closest thing to snow. Ed Miliband ? no huskies, no north pole, but he's in for the long haul
Her car was parked outside where she lived, but she herself was nowhere to be found.
The car seemed to appear from nowhere.
Winds became gales and a thunderstorm suddenly appeared out of nowhere pouring sheets of raindrops.
You'll get nowhere if you follow his instruction.
Nowhere before or since has one column covered so many bases. Times, Sunday Times
They know the frustration, the anxiety, the helplessness and the embarrassment of being on the mound and throwing pitches nowhere near home plate, heaving some to the backstop.
He swore he was nowhere near her house on the night she died.
The book was nowhere to be found.
So he modified it to become the accent from nowhere, so he would fit in. Times, Sunday Times
Seedlings of parsnip, carrot, beetroot and radish must fight off slugs, and weeds also need checking, hoeing them as they grow, to leave the pests nowhere to hide.
One was just on the limb of the planet and one was far off but the other two were nowhere in sight.
Often there are discoveries which lead nowhere.
She cannot enter one world without betraying the other; she feels she belongs nowhere. Times, Sunday Times
Maybe it's a bit like having a stuffy, old law prof, who seems nowhere near as exciting as the younger, livelier profs, but somewhere along the line, you just start appreciating him.
It's only tosspots who come to London from nowhere places who sneer at our nation's other fine cities.
He added that the situation in the southern lowveld where Save is located ‘is nowhere near as bad as in the central and northern highveld.’
There was no indoor tennis centre, just ramshackle old council courts and nowhere to have lessons. Times, Sunday Times
Michael glanced anxiously down the corridor, but Wilfred was nowhere to be seen.
Nowhere in Wallis' piece can I find an acknowledgement of the hard fact that we are at war.
We had nowhere to go so we slept in the car together. The Sun
Yes, it is all a bit familiar - but, sadly, nowhere near as delightfully absurd and unrepentantly silly as the Ghostbusters movies.
Nowhere could you find a better route map of the troubles of Northern Ireland than in the articles of The Independent's David McKittrick.
The khansamah would appear to be the only functionary in residence until the hour of departure draws near, when a whole party of underlings -- chowkidars, bheesties, and sweepers -- appear from nowhere in particular; and the lordly traveller, having presented them with about twopence apiece, rolls off along the dusty white road, leaving the khansamah and his myrmidons salaaming on the verandah. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
'Where are you going this weekend?' 'Nowhere special.'
The hedgehog caper had somehow affected his pattern of sleep and he was wide awake at six, with nowhere to go.
Michael shouted with some enthusiastic joy that seemed to come out of nowhere.
Nowhere in the report does she provide evidence for these assertions:they are merely dogmatically stated as fact.
Half the arrows were notched as the second dragon burst from nowhere.
This understanding is as yet embryonic, unformed, nowhere near as solidly defined as citizenship was in the very recent past.
When he completed his turn, he was met by a pillar of compact soil and rock that shot at him out of nowhere, sending him rolling through the dirt.
A group of Farnhill mums, fed up with having nowhere for their children to play, have got together to raise money to update an ageing play area in the village.
And just out of nowhere in the last 30 seconds or so, a big wave reared up on the outside reef at pipeline, and I was watching from the beach going you know, maybe he's in the spot.
This discussion is leading us nowhere.
Angiosperms are usually tiny, growing in isolated clusters and nowhere forming the bulk of the cover.
Nowhere is the effect of government policy more apparent than in agriculture.
When he came to what I called my chateau, from nowhere, going nowhere, I hardly knew whether to call him young or old. Back to God's Country and Other Stories
Nowhere have I seen your bike.
The shield is nowhere near as strong as the attorney's, and third parties with a colorable need for the information will be able to compel accountants to produce it.
It seems to have figured out its bizarre sizing issues—last year the difference of a half size was either way too small or way too large, but nowhere in between.
Some banks try not to foreclose on farms because some owe so much money and if they foreclose on the farm the amount of money they get back is nowhere near as much as what they lent to the client.
In the dawn a monstrous wave, well over the height of the mast, appeared from nowhere and completely enveloped the ship. Times, Sunday Times
He's just being nice anyhow; the guy that plays for a hobby is nowhere near as good as the guy that played for a living.
Monumental Art Deco and this riot of materials and colours led nowhere, however.
You're a biased party, the parents of the vic, and you're to go nowhere near this case or we'll slap you with obstruction. THE KILL CLAUSE
A gray sedan appeared from nowhere in the fast lane.
Among residents who arrived at the showground were holidaymakers and homeless people with nowhere left to go. Brisbane residents flee homes as floodwaters rise
Their affair is going nowhere until he asks her to restore a family heirloom that may contain the key to a centuries-old murder mystery.
She's nowhere near as clever as her sister.
He had nowhere to go, so I took him in.
On a recent deep-sea fishing trip - my first - off the coast of southern California, the yellowfin tuna were nowhere in sight.
For a rice eater like me, cafeteria tiffin in the morning comes nowhere close to filling.
And, everyone, as a follow-up to the earlier post on critiquing/reviewing your friends 'work in public forums (fora? foramina?), if I ever post anything, like say a drawing of otters as a random totally-out-of-nowhere example, and there's anything wonky about it, yes, please feel free to say something. In case there isn't enough cuteness in your life
Instead of building bridges to nowhere, we will build a solid foundation for our nation and its future generations.
There's nowhere else in the world you could see such an extensive and amazing collection of modern art.
This, at a time when Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts seem to have been going nowhere, in part because control of the Palestinian territories is nominally split between Mr. Abbas and nonparticipant Hamas. Lots to Think About
If he didn't hurry, there would be nowhere to hide, and he and Anne would surely die.
And even though nowhere in Buddhist scripture is there any mention of any kind of ghosts or animism, a strong belief in magic still remains.
He came from nowhere, this rank outsider, to beat a field of top-class athletes.
a subtone, his brain was afire with keen activity; but unfortunately for the going forward of things, this mental state was divided into so many battalions, led by so many generals, indirectly and indecisively, nowhere. The Place of Honeymoons
They soon discover that the cheaper end of the market means £375,000 for an unmodernised three-bedroom cottage in the middle of nowhere.
A civil war in Sri Lanka, extending nowhere else, untainted on either side by even a whiff of Islamism -- a war in which a minority people, slaughtered mercilessly for decades, have come to identify (at least to some extent) with a brutal counterforce called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is now effortlessly connected to 9/11. Archive 2009-04-01
Surely in the world, there's expert in this task, but that expert does not work on your little cattle ranch in the middle of nowhere.
Nowhere was it tried - and I mean real socialism, not welfare statism - where tyranny, misery, poverty, fear and oppression failed to follow.
The problem most of the reviews expose is Erikson's verbosity and a very slow and meandering buildup with many subplots leading nowhere, but the reader's patience is ultimatelly paid of by another bombastic ending (yup, a convergence). Archive 2008-07-01
Radical factions say the talks are getting nowhere and they want to withdraw.
Perhaps nowhere else in the literature is the integration between field stratigraphy, paleoecology, and paleobiology better illustrated than in this research.
The love of system, of interconnection, which is perhaps the inmost essence of the intellectual impulse, can find free play in mathematics as nowhere else. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
There is truly nowhere a sheep will not follow the bellwether.
Trapped in the vicious cycle of bondage and slavery, they have nowhere to go and are thrust into a life which reduces them to nothing but robots.
Then, out of nowhere, your mom interrupts to jump on your case for not taking Murphy, the family labradoodle, out for his nightly stroll.
So this year, consider creating an interior file in your soul called Pajama Day, and when things get crazed, out of nowhere, declare a blustery March Saturday Pajama Day, or a blistery August Sunday Pajama Day or any blessed day you feel like stopping and hanging out in your own holy wholeness. Dr. Susan Corso: Pajama Days: Holiness For The Rest Of The Year
As well as nowhere to park I discovered three traffic wardens eagerly sticking tickets on any and every car that had attempted to park where they could.
And it's that part of the equation that most written SF is chickening out of: it's de rigueur to show how awfully bad things are going, and how much worse they will get, but almost nowhere do you see SF that thinks about how to * solve* those problems. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Jetse de Vries
Test's foot injury got him one more main event slot, rather than a nowhere feud with the Dudleyz.
Shaw – being the maverick painter in the pack, and a popular favourite – will surely win the big prize, though, with his views of nowhere places, meticulously and perversely rendered in the unwieldy and super low-tech medium of model aeroplane kit makers' Humbrol enamels. This week's new exhibitions
They kept the hens on the streets -- there was nowhere else to keep them. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
An attacker advanced on her while she stood unprotected, with nowhere to run.
Home was often a nowhere place, and identities were confused and reliant on legislation and mediation.
As the old countryman would say: ‘Well, it's better than nowt, but it's nowhere near mother's milk.’
He turned and saw a certain Fred Beaucock -- once a promising lawyer's clerk and local dandy, who had been called the cleverest fellow in Sherton, without whose brains the firm of solicitors employing him would be nowhere. The Woodlanders
It's ok, don't strain yourself ... its called stability, which is nowhere in sight and not likely for years. Palin's pregnant daughter: Does it matter to voters?
When she wakes up, Julia is nowhere to be found either on the plane or manifest.
The debate also cast doubt about whether taxis have been charging too much for long rides from the causeway to Apex or Road To Nowhere.
She lives on a small farm in the middle of nowhere.
Radical factions say the talks are getting nowhere and they want to withdraw.
In the last few seconds, Gunnell came from nowhere to win another gold medal.
As for the Fakahatchee, it has ten species of orchids that exist nowhere else in the United States: the crooked-spur, the false water spider, the rattail, to name a few. Pam Grout: Sarah Palin, Jane Fonda and Those Suffering From Orchidelirium Were Here
Saturday January 26 2008 and it's 4am at home in Eccleston, a sleepy town in west Lancashire, north of Manchester and west of Liverpool - nowhere in particular, anonymous and unpretentious, which is exactly as I like it. Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
Master Yehudi was nowhere to be found.
It somewhat reminds him of New York but it is nowhere near as expensive to live well.
There is nowhere to buy tickets so if the conductor doesn't turn up, what can I do?
It seems that being merely nice and inoffensive gets you nowhere on the telly.
People moved everywhere, yet there was only a mild hum of unassignable noise, a blending of typeout machines, human voices, and a steady tremor that seemed everywhere and nowhere, that came from the rock itself. Across The Sea Of Suns
After seeing his statement, we remain baffled — nowhere does he explain how retreating from Iraq makes America safer. Think Progress » White House Flip-Flops on Murtha
We are nowhere near ready to counter cyberterrorism, which is a very real threat and has been for the last decade. Taylor Marsh: Wikileaks Blowback in the Era of Zuckerberg
He's a real nowhere man.
I found a spike and bolt only and nowhere to belay a lead in rope.
Nowhere was this more evident than in the marked differences in the handling of collaboration in the atomic and conventional weapons fields.
There were some negative notices, however, with several finding the films pace too slow for comfort and its narrative going nowhere, slowly.
We are in a cheap restaurant in a middle-of-nowhere town in Nevada that just happens to have one, unassailable attraction.
Elsinore, this time due to me and my own stubbornness, is rolling in the wind and heading nowhere in a light breeze at the rate of nothing but driftage per hour. CHAPTER XLVI
But nowhere has there ever been a record of a horse that has died during the corrida.
In November she wrote a letter to Franklin Wood, threatening to stop paying for treatment (Prouty thought it was nontreatment) that seemed to be leading nowhere. The Mad Poets Society
Much wisecracking, little introspection, in other words, as an officer who has used his brains and not the rulebook to solve military situations gets sent to the arse end of nowhere to serve with a crew of misfits on an old rustbucket, wherein he is reunited with an old sidekick. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Starship Mutiny - Mike Resnick
Several of these places were hygienically challenged, with mangy dogs scurrying about, leaking sewage pipes and nowhere to bathe.
It's nowhere near time for us to leave yet.
Among other consequences, this has meant that the tourism industry has not been able to adequately access transient workers because there is nowhere for them to stay.
'Everybody knows the cruciate is a bad injury but it is nowhere near as bad as it used to be.' Official Everton Football Club News Feed
There was the glass, cone shaped mountain that appeared out of nowhere, after the throng had finished stomping me.
She crawled out of her sleeping bag and her dark head peered around the room once more, as though she expected her friends to materialise out of nowhere.
I feel lonelier in the middle of London than I do on my boat in the middle of nowhere.
Some prickly problems of racial and economic accessibility that one senses when visiting the country's galleries and museums were nowhere in evidence.
Despite being handed perhaps one of the most intriguing ensembles ever assembled for a cheesy Hollywood movie, Marshall continuously squanders his riches in service of a lame, multistranded story that goes nowhere. Moberly Monitor-Index Homepage RSS
About half of the species are endemic to these islands and are found nowhere else on Earth.
This kind of forest exists nowhere else in the world.
Lisa, NOWHERE in ew Moon does it say that vampires reproduce. 'New Moon': A Hater's Guide | EW.com
A peace settlement is nowhere in sight .
One mark up for Evil," said Ajax, out of nowhere, `two marks down for Good. SPLITTING
But this blonde bombshell appeared from nowhere and told them to get lost. The Sun
The project revivified an unloved plot of sprawl, the kind of car-centered, nowhere space that blots the landscape all across North America. Profile of Vancouver architect Bing Thom
The hall was nowhere near full.
When the train disgorged its passengers at Queen Street, there was a huge communal feeling of pent-up anger yet nowhere to vent it.
Seems that despite the popular propaganda perpetuated by the corporate media that the academy is a bastion for 'tenured radicals' is nowhere near the reality. La Profesora Abstraida
But the knock-on effect is that a large chunk of its traditional listenership, at the older end of the age spectrum, have been left with nowhere to go.
The hotel is in the middle of nowhere and there lies the rub. We don't have a car.
Carlyle's work, and perhaps nowhere breaks out in so repulsive a form as in the piece called "Jesuitism" (1850), in the _Latter-Day Studies in Early Victorian Literature
We are drinking sundowners by the Land Cruiser and musing that, if we set off on foot now, we'd still be nowhere in a week's time.
She is backing away and you are getting nowhere. The Sun
Nowhere is this truer than in Wenzhou, a prospering port with a history of missionary activity.
Over three hours I sat going nowhere today because three ‘professional’ drivers rear-ended each other in their artics.
Nowhere could you find a better route map of the troubles of Northern Ireland than in the articles of The Independent's David McKittrick.
This is free and available if you have already followed your insurer's process and got nowhere. The Sun
The underground revolution was coming up to the surface, although it was nowhere near breaking through.
What angered people was nowhere in the letter did it say the home was for elderly people.
Well, folks, it's nowhere near as hard as trying to unwrap a baloney and cheese sandwich or open a bag of Fritos.
Talpa Media stepped out as it no longer is involved in digital productions and PCM is experimenting with another citizens’ journalism project EN.nl, which is still a project without any real direction and in my opinion heading nowhere. Archive 2008-04-10
After the completion of the Telegraph Station it remained an isolated group of buildings in the middle of nowhere.
But he chased after me and my clothes got torn, and we were barely out of his father's car when this truck came out of nowhere and bashed into it and knocked it over the hill.
However, the sun was soon down below the horizon and the sky was covered with inky blackness, but her brothers were still nowhere to be seen.
Just when the Ravens appeared to put themselves in position to cut the Colts 'lead in half in the second half on Ed Reed's interception and runback, Garcon came out of nowhere — actually he chased Reed down the sideline — to punch the football loose. NFL Replay: Brett Favre adding more to league's record books
An uptight young smartarse editor travels out into the middle of nowhere determined that HE can be the one to rehabilitate a famously reclusive writer who hasn't written a book in 20 years. Crowdsource: Favorite Film about the Creative Process?
The bullet from nowhere, the theody in the gloam, the silent stones: a true mystery and its answer are one. May 2005: Nick Tosches on Arnold Rothstein
There is nowhere other than the far right slot to put the USB 2.0 connectors, and the audio and Firewire ports cannot be moved to the rightmost slot.
Nowhere is the problem more acute than Los Angeles County, where gang-related homicide is on the increase.
The van started shifting towards the right, slowly pushing Pete into the curb, leaving him nowhere to go except on the grass.
Just then, Gillian appeared as if from nowhere.
She's nowhere near as clever as her sister.
The torrential rain and widespread flooding left nowhere untouched.
Chinese philosophers believe in the mutual convertibility of blessings and misfortunes and nowhere is this dramatized so vividly as in Chinese officialdom.
The store was crammed with stock and staff were on stepladders hanging scarves 12 feet off the floor (either a bizarre new way to display stock or, more likely, an indication that they have nowhere else to put it).
From out of nowhere a spring box leaped up before him, multiple legs reaching, acid-filled hypo already exposed. T2®: THE FUTURE WAR
But this room, located in an office complex in Santa Monica, California, nowhere near the beach, is no benign, garden-variety data center.
Characters seemed to appear out of nowhere and the dialogue was endlessly repetitive.
The most important issue for most ordinary people was nowhere on the proposed agenda.
The Hot is self-explanatory, given that the most plausible explanation for the burkini was the Australian sun; Flat, because the speed of the web ensures an audience of millions, even billions, within hours for the smallest detail of someone's everyday life, and Crowded, because for a celebrity, nowhere is safe from the long reach of a paparazzi zoom lens. Nigella Lawson and the great burkini cover-up
Being everywhere at once while going nowhere in particular is what poets do, and Yeats did it.
And sorry about the "goddamit," but that particular misusage popped up out of nowhere on cable news during the primaries and its been driving me batshit crazy. Obama Reiterates: Combat Troops Out Of Iraq In 16 Months
Such self-satisfaction and optimism have nowhere been more on display than in the financial media.
Let them know that their childish tantrums will get them nowhere.
For the fossil record of the Cambrian Explosion does not reveal the gradual development of life forms as Darwin posited in his work, but a period in which compound eyes, articulated limbs, sophisticated sensory organs and skeletal frames burst into existence seemingly out of nowhere. Darwin's Dilemna Premiering
New shoots of young grass come up green - a vivid viridescent I have seen nowhere in America or Europe.
This is the crowning insult to a lifetime of perceived slights and insults, which exist nowhere but in his head.
Medieval and modern writers wrongly take it for granted that the charism existed permanently at Corinth — as it did nowhere else — and that St. Paul, in commending the gift to the Corinthians, therewith gave his guaranty that the characteristics of Corinthian glossolaly were those of the gift itself. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
Two Brazilian technicians are found dead on top of a big hill in the middle of nowhere. Times, Sunday Times
We reorganised and realigned very quickly and eventually there was nowhere for England to go.
The escaped prisoner was nowhere in sight.
It was the Erebus, sent off like Darwin’s Beagle on a round-the-world charting expedition, from which Hooker went ashore on Tasmania, New Zealand, and an interesting little nub called Kerguelen Island, halfway between Antarctica and nowhere. The Song of The Dodo

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