How to Use in the middle of nowhere in a Sentence

in the middle of nowhere

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  • A long way away from an In-N-Out chaos in the middle of nowhere.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Sep. 2022
  • The railway starts from Kenya’s coastal region but ends in the middle of nowhere.
    Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The drug that John found was being in the middle of nowhere and keeping himself alive.
    David Gardner, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • For the rest of the trip, we were based at Explora, a luxury lodge in the middle of nowhere.
    Teddy Minford, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The smell is nauseating as the sun bakes down on the ranch in Alpine, Utah, which, on this day the summer of 1981, may as well have been in the middle of nowhere.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Producers just dumped Rachel in the middle of nowhere just so Tino could make a big entrance by driving up in a Jeep.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2022
  • What explains the ambulance and van showing up so quickly in the middle of nowhere?
    Vanessa Garcia, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
  • The ride is part of a traveling carnival, seemingly set up in the middle of nowhere, and a storm is coming in the form of Stan Carlisle.
    New York Times, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Imagine being stranded, alone, on a road in the middle of nowhere during a blizzard.
    Collin Morgan, Car and Driver, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Pamlico Sound found a dog paddling in the middle of nowhere Saturday, May 14.
    al, 16 May 2022
  • Being in the middle of nowhere and unknown to short-wave radios seems pretty key to keeping them safe from Infected and raiders.
    Kyle Orland & Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The ambassador worried about a case built on life insurance and a love triangle, about a mystery in the middle of nowhere.
    Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2022
  • Living in the middle of nowhere with his reptile-studying mom, Charlie, 11, is spirited away to the Lizard Kingdom.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Oct. 2021
  • At first, this seems like a random act of mayhem: two psychopaths who stumble across some nice folks in the middle of nowhere and decide to take advantage.
    Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Williams' chapter tells the story of Gina, a regular woman who is building a home with her husband (James Le Gros) in the middle of nowhere.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Entrepreneurs with grand ideas for raising a new city also coveted all those acres at Yeehaw Junction in the middle of nowhere.
    Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Can two strong women with very different coping strategies on the journey from grief to release meet each other somewhere in the middle – out in the middle of nowhere?
    Cindy Kent, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Two guys find their soulmates in the middle of nowhere — just how autobiographical was this movie?
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The film centers on Itsy Levan, who is devastated by her parents’ decision to leave the city and buy a fixer upper in the middle of nowhere.
    Manori Ravindran, Variety, 10 Jan. 2023
  • This included small boulders and tough vegetation that sprouted in the middle of nowhere with recent rains.
    Mercedes Lilienthal, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2022
  • West Florida found a largely intact 19th century stove in the middle of nowhere — surrounded by bricks.
    al, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Gerry Palmieri believes this is the most plausible scenario: Their father was killed in some sort of love triangle by someone who covered their tracks by dumping his body in the middle of nowhere.
    Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Readers of Shakespeare’s late romance will remember that this ship runs into a tempest that disgorges its passengers onto a strange island in the middle of nowhere.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Hilton Salwa: The gigantic luxury hotel in the middle of nowhere Among the more mysterious links to Qatar’s pearling past are some physically etched into its desert landscape.
    Sarah Reid, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Audiences can see shots of the man walking through a hall full of photographers to testify, as the story cuts to an in-color moment when Oppenheimer and Kitty arrive at a model town in the middle of nowhere to conduct his tests.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2022

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