How to Use nothing in a Sentence

nothing

noun
  • It appeared out of nothing.
  • My children are important to me—I'm nothing without them.
  • The UFO hovered for a while, then vanished into nothing.
  • That style, if nothing else, kept the ball away from the Huskies goal.
    Randy McRoberts, baltimoresun.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Kent State has shown nothing through the air, and that won’t change against the Tigers.
    Joe Williams, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 14 Sep. 2019
  • There’s nothing in the woods that holds any fear for Paula.
    Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 6 Mar. 2020
  • And to be clear, Donald Trump had nothing to do with them.
    Ganesh Sitaraman, The New Republic, 23 Dec. 2019
  • The real crimes were on the other side, as nothing happens to them.
    Ali Dukakis and, ABC News, 19 Feb. 2020
  • But those deaths could have been as high as 2.2 million, if the U.S. did nothing, Mr. Trump said.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2020
  • But nothing in the car or anywhere else tied Henning and Birch to the murder.
    Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 23 July 2019
  • From that point on, nothing strange happened in my house again.
    Nathalie Kirby, House Beautiful, 6 Feb. 2020
  • There was nothing in his bedroom but a bed and an armchair and me.
    Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Hansen argued that the firing had nothing to do with the content of the message.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Does that sound like a lot to pay for a device that does, well, almost nothing?
    Wired, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Tell her that your father's abuse had nothing to do with her.
    cleveland, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Tell her that your father’s abuse had nothing to do with her.
    oregonlive, 24 Dec. 2019
  • The forest looked small and still from there, nothing really to see.
    Arna Bontemps Hemenway, The Atlantic, 19 July 2019
  • Meet the South Sudanese refugee who comes from nothing, who just become your 2019 model of the year.
    Erin Nicole Celletti, Teen Vogue, 3 Dec. 2019
  • But with the Godfather of Soul, nothing is that simple.
    Thomas Lake, CNN, 3 Mar. 2020
  • The 49ers coach ran from nothing during the buildup to Super Bowl 54 last week in Miami.
    Andy Nesbitt, For The Win, 4 Feb. 2020
  • People believe now that every side of the war doesn’t care; nothing will change.
    Fox News, 27 July 2019
  • The girl knew nothing of the scam, Huffman and prosecutors say.
    Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • As a native of Kenya, its beauty is nothing new to Michuki.
    Danielle Pointdujour, Essence, 22 Jan. 2020
  • The reason for the season has nothing to do with earth's distance from the sun, however.
    Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 21 Dec. 2019
  • Within a certain distance of the point, nothing can escape, not even light, so the black hole forms an inky sphere.
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Medina freed Sánchez, but there was nothing more that could be done.
    Maria Perez, jsonline.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The idea of using biometric data to speed up the travel process is nothing new.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 2 Mar. 2020
  • This is a game therefore Bayern should win, but nothing is easy in Europe.
    SI.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • But the lawyers insisted the president did nothing wrong.
    Tim Darnell, ajc, 22 Jan. 2020
  • People don't make excuses for their friends who have done nothing wrong.
    Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 31 Mar. 2020

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