How to Use go nowhere in a Sentence

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  • Watching the bill go nowhere last year was hard on him.
    Star Tribune, 24 Apr. 2021
  • People put out tracks – like Justin Bieber – that go nowhere.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2021
  • Some of Hunter Biden’s business deals appeared to go nowhere.
    Andrew Duehren, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Acknowledge the Signs of Dream Logic Stairs that go nowhere.
    WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
  • What was once a season that had the potential to go nowhere has become arguably one of the best of the past 30 years.
    oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2021
  • If his take on consumer prices turns out to be correct again, stocks may go nowhere in coming years.
    Lu Wang, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The text is riddled with self-conscious tics and assertions that go nowhere.
    Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Over the next four hours, the negotiations to have Cerda exit the home go nowhere.
    Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • That inherently means there will be a lot of drives into the paint that go nowhere, leading to a pass and reset.
    Shane Young, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • Of course, the way to make risks absolutely minimized is to go nowhere, do nothing.
    Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2011
  • But attempts to plant tension by having Victor sniff around the holes in Leni and Robert’s backstory go nowhere.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Those measures will go nowhere in the Senate, where Republicans can block them.
    Alan Fram, ajc, 12 June 2022
  • The landmark event, however, seemed to go nowhere, as the Navy dithered about how to field uncrewed planes from aircraft carriers.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2021
  • This offense and the development of Tua Tagovailoa go nowhere if the line isn’t better.
    Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Aug. 2021
  • Bills that seem very reasonable on the surface either go nowhere, or wind up taking years to enact.
    Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • The documents reflect a proposal at an early stage that could change or go nowhere.
    Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 25 May 2021
  • If talks go nowhere in the summer and early fall, while Iran’s nuclear-weapons program progresses, at some point the United States will have to say the game is over.
    Elliott Abrams, National Review, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Without a television sponsor, the Super League will go nowhere.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The best dual enrollment program in the world will go nowhere if students and families don’t know about it or see its value.
    Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • As the first standalone sequel after the third installment, The Final Destination is further alone in that the plot seems to go nowhere.
    Michael Lee Simpson, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Other Democrats swiftly responded to reports of Graham’s efforts with anger, and vowed that the measure would go nowhere.
    Amy B Wang and Caroline Kitchener, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Sometimes your longstanding projects that go nowhere can still be the most satisfying.
    Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Would the playoff still expand after months of negotiations that seemed to go nowhere?
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The next year involves some legal back and forth with the Court of Special Appeals that go nowhere, too, until Serial becomes involved.
    Sabrina Rojas Weiss, refinery29.com, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The Diamondbacks are a team coming off a miserable season that is expected to do nothing and go nowhere.
    Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Seems like a long way to travel to go nowhere particularly meaningful.
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 9 Mar. 2023
  • House Democrats have pushed anti-gun violence measures, but even more modest ideas like safe gun storage requirements go nowhere.
    Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Netanyahu would still probably have the first chance to form a government if his Likud party is the biggest in the Knesset, which could result in days or weeks of negotiations that go nowhere.
    Richard Allen Greene, CNN, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Those bills will go nowhere in the Senate as long as Republicans can jam them by invoking the filibuster — but to do away with it, Democrats will need every one of their 50 senators onboard.
    Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2021
  • On the other hand, a lack of clarity results in confusion, frustration, poor performance, and efforts that go nowhere.
    Kumar Mehta, Forbes, 21 June 2022

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