How to Use nowhere in a Sentence

nowhere

1 of 3 adverb

• I have nowhere to go.
• Nowhere is there more of a population problem than in this city.
• The bait zebras — and the rest of the herd — were nowhere in sight.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• Hamas will fail at that, because the Jews have nowhere else to go.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2023
• There was only the soft thumping of the engine, and nowhere to be.
  — J.r. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2023
• The Santa Ana Foothill High lacrosse goalie had come from nowhere.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• And the United States, experts warn, is nowhere close to ready for that threat.
  — Christopher Flavelle, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
• When the school year began, Hill was nowhere in coach Andy Wise’s plans.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2023
• There is no shade from the burning sun in the day, nowhere to keep warm in the perishing cold of the night.
  — David Culver, CNN, 11 May 2023
• Wooden steps once attached to the porch lay in the front yard, leading to nowhere.
  — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
• Even before Covid-19 hit, the U.S. was nowhere close to paying down its debt.
  — Jane C. Timm, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• The phone remained limp in my palm for hours, teasing me with new routes to nowhere.
  — Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2023
• Or there’s George Mason, which came out of nowhere to reach the 2006 Final Four.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2023
• She had been hit in the abdomen by a single bullet that seemed to come out of nowhere.
  — Sheila Cosgrove Baylis, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023
• Hamas fighters have nowhere to fall back to in the face of an attack by Israel.
  — Javed Ali, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2023
• The decision to cut the show came, seemingly, out of nowhere.
  — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2024
• Lo and behold, out of nowhere a small pole barn was taking shape.
  — Tim Carter, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
• But less than 10 miles to the northeast, in the wealthy city of San Marino, house sparrows were nowhere to be heard.
  — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• But there was nowhere to catch a football or a basketball game, or play a game of pool in the area.
  — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 2 Apr. 2024
• But there's nowhere else to go from rock bottom except up.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023
• But other projects were shelved or are nowhere close to production, The Wrap said.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
• Who wants to be cooped up in their home office, spinning on a two-wheeler to nowhere?
  — Mike Richard, menshealth.com, 24 Apr. 2023
• This is close to Barbagia, in the central part of the island — really in the middle of nowhere.
  — Laura May Todd, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• Then, out of nowhere, two seconds into game three BDS got their first goal of the final.
  — Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• And nowhere else in the nation has the debate raged on as fiercely as in Florida.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 15 May 2023
• While Hudson has come out of nowhere as a success story, none of it has looked like a fluke.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2024
• Old and young have much to give one another that is available nowhere else.
  — M.t. Connolly, Fortune Well, 18 July 2023
• Out of nowhere, a man howling in pain comes barreling at them.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• Then a mysterious woman in a ski mask appears out of nowhere, slays the killer and flees the scene.
  — Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
• This does not happen in the film, and in the grand reckoning with the king, Prince Henry’s mother is nowhere in sight.
  — Samuel Maude, ELLE, 11 Aug. 2023

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nowhere

2 of 3 noun

• The 13 water providers own the rights to the water but have nowhere to store it.
  — Dan Elliott, The Denver Post, 18 May 2017
• On the car break-in front, there’s nowhere for these agencies to go but up.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Jan. 2018
• There was nowhere for the people — or the animals — to go.
  — Kate Santich, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Oct. 2019
• Like a lot of out-of-nowhere box office hits, some of the revenue went up in smoke.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• There’s nowhere to shop, except for lobsters at the wharves.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
• The skinny: There was nowhere to go but up, and that’s pretty much where Schwartz went: Nowhere.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2018
• There was nowhere to go but up from there, but things didn't get much better.
  — Joseph Goodman, AL.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• Others have a bed at a shelter but nowhere to go during the day.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 7 Nov. 2019
• What's more, disputes between the White House and Congress have nowhere else to go.
  — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2019
• Phrases such as ‘nowhere to be seen’ and ‘skipped’ featured in those rewrites.
  — SI.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• Summer can bring out the bugs and nowhere was that more apparent than in this round of Clean Plates.
  — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 2 July 2018
• And, of course, how about the many, many students who have nowhere to go, or no money to get themselves to a safe place?
  — Amy Joyce, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2020
• The small satellite companies that SpaceX had signed up to fly on the Falcon 1 had nowhere to go.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 June 2018
• This story starts off small, on the middle-of-nowhere desert planet Jakku.
  — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2019
• The 36 points White dumped on the Nuggets in Game 3 of the playoffs remains one of the postseason’s more out-of-nowhere explosions.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 29 Oct. 2019
• Experts are still working to identify the cause of these out-of-nowhere headaches.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 29 Aug. 2018
• His Stanhope is a study in coiled energy with nowhere to go.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
• Being around the Region all my life and then going to this small, little town in the middle of nowhere wasn't good for me.
  — Rahim Thompson, Post-Tribune, 16 June 2017
• He was gobbled up, and would routinely have nowhere to go once Peters beat him off the snap.
  — Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 1 Aug. 2017
• With big data to crunch and nowhere for miscreants to hide, perhaps top-down rule can at last be made to work.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
• In fact, nowhere is the curse of modern-day overload more evident than in travel.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Mar. 2018
• There was no more out-of-nowhere player last season than Taylor.
  — Michael Beller, SI.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• What's more, fans got a hint of the EP with a catchy single—and to boot, its video includes an out-of-nowhere starring appearance from a video game.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 13 July 2017
• That only adds to the heat, especially on a massive parking lot where there is no shade and nowhere to hide.
  — Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 July 2019
• But nowhere was the electorate more disgusted with the choices than right here in Washington.
  — Gene Balk / Fyi Guy, The Seattle Times, 23 May 2017
• That left Canadian oil with nowhere to go, filling up storage tanks and sending prices to record lows.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2019
• Penalties and turnovers have been the story of the 2017 Rice Owls but nowhere was that fact more evident than in the Alamodome on Saturday.
  — Glynn A. Hill, Houston Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2017
• About one-fifth of the event’s participants said there’s nowhere for financial services firm to hide.
  — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2019
• Egyptian squash is dynamic and unstructured, with out-of-nowhere drop shots and deceptive flicks of the wrist.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2019
• Then momentum stalled out with a go-nowhere cult mythology.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2019

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nowhere

3 of 3 adjective

• This movie takes the lake-house-in-the-middle-of-nowhere thriller to the next level.
  — Lucia Tonelli, Town & Country, 31 May 2022
• The props for the tomfooleries are nowhere to be found.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
• But for two days in a row, June was nowhere to be found.
  — Michelle Matthews | [e-mail], al, 26 Apr. 2021
• The tuna weren’t biting, and the mahi-mahi were nowhere to be found.
  — Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022
• Ryan Hayes was nowhere to be found when the Wolverines took the field for pregame warmups.
  — Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2022
• But to many of those voters, those changes are nowhere to be found.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Anchorage Daily News, 12 Oct. 2021
• Or was this some sort of out-of-nowhere blip that will be tough to replicate?
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Oct. 2021
• Funny, but those folks were nowhere to be found in 1998.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2022
• But on Thursday, the tell-tale signs of a letdown were nowhere to be found.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• The next day, the medications were nowhere to be found.
  — Sydney Brownstone, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Jan. 2022
• And who was nowhere to be found by her side on those red carpets?
  — Marie Claire Editors, Marie Claire, 11 Sep. 2021
• The Avengers are nowhere to be found in Eternals, despite the massive threat.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 25 Aug. 2022
• As word spread that Maya was nowhere to be found, more friends stepped in trying to help.
  — CBS News, 19 Feb. 2022
• But when the list was published on Nov. 18, Khora was nowhere to be found.
  — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 23 Nov. 2021
• The Americans fell back, but Futch was nowhere to be found.
  — Dave Philipps, Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
• Police searched the hotel, but Pan was nowhere to be found.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2021
• Not a single out-of-nowhere team had made the title game in the CFP era, dating back to 2014.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2023
• When the flu did return this spring, that lineage was nowhere to be found.
  — Frances Stead Sellers, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2022
• Tellingly, the sequel's ringing of a brass bar bell when the beer is on you is nowhere to be found in the 1986 film.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2022
• The story begins with the Yi’s move to a derelict plot of land in the middle of nowhere Arkansas.
  — Zoe Guy, Marie Claire, 25 Apr. 2021
• All of this is to say, the two have remained best friends so this isn’t, like, an out-of-nowhere visit.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 7 May 2021
• But Jansen, for the first time since the facility opened in 2009, is nowhere to be found for the fans crowding the back fields.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• When the moment shone brightest, Simmons shrunk — and was nowhere to be found.
  — Dj Siddiqi, Forbes, 21 June 2021
• The mesa is in the middle of nowhere but silent desert, land stretching between the state’s highest peaks and the depths of Death Valley.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 17 July 2022
• As the afternoon wore on, the couple’s grandniece was nowhere to be seen.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 21 June 2022
• Defense was nowhere to be found as both teams scored at will in the second quarter.
  — Damian Adams, The Arizona Republic, 12 Nov. 2021
• But Holly, who was only an infant at the time, was nowhere to be found.
  — Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 10 June 2022
• His lawyer, who is also his brother, was nowhere to be found.
  — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2021
• Keyeva had made it out of the fire, but the Martins’ five chickens died in their coop, and their cat was nowhere to be found.
  — Hanna Merzbach, The Atlantic, 6 June 2021
• There have been reports of shadowy figures appearing and disappearing out of nowhere, strange liquid oozing down the walls, and more.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 22 June 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024