How to Use nowhere to be found in a Sentence

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  • But both the suitcase, and the key to his BMW 330xi, were nowhere to be found.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The 2023 Met Gala has come and gone—and Zendaya was nowhere to be found.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 May 2023
  • As the group posed for photos, Ms. Hearts was nowhere to be found.
    Madison Malone Kircher, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Ryan Hayes was nowhere to be found when the Wolverines took the field for pregame warmups.
    Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The version of Farley that took jabs at Musk and the Cybertruck was nowhere to be found.
    Umar Shakir, The Verge, 27 May 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
  • But again the Court is imposing a restriction nowhere to be found in the text.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
  • James Harden was nowhere to be found, adding just 9 points in 41 minutes.
    Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2023
  • Fast forward to today, and Japan Inc. is almost nowhere to be found.
    Peter Vanham, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • There is a sort of palimpsest of thinking, reading: The ideas have been churning in the writer for years, but the agony of that work is nowhere to be found.
    Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Pressure to design at an Amazon Prime pace is nowhere to be found.
    Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The standard set up and pay-off from mainstream cinema is nowhere to be found.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • In this scenario, the rightful owner is likely nowhere to be found.
    Ilyce Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • On the day that she, her mother, Tetiana and a home health aide had been promised a ride to safety with a neighbor, her friend was nowhere to be found.
    Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2022
  • When the ferry docked, the other passengers returned to the bus but Chris and Carolyn were nowhere to be found.
    Francesca Street, CNN, 25 Jan. 2023
  • But that magic was nowhere to be found Saturday against the current Duke team.
    Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2023
  • However, when the song finally dropped at the end of October, her pal was nowhere to be found on the track.
    Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 7 Dec. 2022
  • But this time, the energy and invention of the previous scene is nowhere to be found.
    Vulture, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Peggy knew of at least five or six other families who had stayed and were nowhere to be found.
    Janine Zeitlin, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2022
  • For some reason hairy chests are nowhere to be found on menswear runways, but that’s a different piece).
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Aishwarya Thatikonda, a 26-year-old project engineer, was nowhere to be found, and no one could reach her.
    Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • New iPads are still nowhere to be found, but they're bound to arrive eventually.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2023
  • But Acosta’s teenage son, who is suspected of gunning down the victims, is nowhere to be found.
    Michelle Watson, CNN, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Yet these policies were almost nowhere to be found in the North Carolina Senate race.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Yet these policies were almost nowhere to be found in the North Carolina Senate race.
    Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2023
  • But Dawn of the Dead, the 1978 follow-up that's widely regarded as just as influential as the first, is nowhere to be found.
    PCMAG, 18 Jan. 2023
  • When Thompson returned, Chuck and Charlie were nowhere to be found, which was not initially a cause for alarm.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The weekend is sunny and warm, and summery humidity is still nowhere to be found.
    David Streit, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
  • That defense was nowhere to be found Sunday afternoon, due in large part to the dual-threat Johnson.
    Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 30 Apr. 2023

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