nowhere near
idiom
1
: not at all near to
We were nowhere near a hospital.
2
informal
: not at all : not nearly
Their house is nowhere near as nice as yours.
That is nowhere near enough water.
The house is nowhere near finished.
Examples of nowhere near in a Sentence
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The region has nowhere near enough shelter beds for everybody asking.
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Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2024
Biden doubtless would have preferred to come nowhere near Trump.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2024
Though nowhere near as widely known as Milton Friedman and George Stigler, his fellow free-market apostles, Henry G. Manne, a co-founder of the law and economics movement centered at the University of Chicago, emerges as an important figure in this swing of the pendulum.
—James B. Stewart, New York Times, 16 May 2024
That’s elevated for a typical company but nowhere near the levels of 140% that preceded the 2021 mania.
—Bailey Lipschultz, Fortune, 13 May 2024
The Tahoe snowfall also broke 24-hour records for May
While this year is nowhere near the record snowfall seen last water year, this weekend broke records for the month of May.
—Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 6 May 2024
But DeLong noted that more than 80% of Tesla’s first-quarter sales were from automotive revenues, adding that car manufacturing has nowhere near the marginal costs of an IT company, which can write code once and run it everywhere.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 4 May 2024
The probe, though nowhere near final, has uncovered a winding trail of drugs, money and murder linked to Florida and Puerto Rico — and a cast of characters previously known to law enforcement in different capacities.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 3 May 2024
The national average is nowhere near the unprecedented spike above $5 a gallon in June 2022.
—Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024
Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2024
Biden doubtless would have preferred to come nowhere near Trump.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2024
Though nowhere near as widely known as Milton Friedman and George Stigler, his fellow free-market apostles, Henry G. Manne, a co-founder of the law and economics movement centered at the University of Chicago, emerges as an important figure in this swing of the pendulum.
—James B. Stewart, New York Times, 16 May 2024
That’s elevated for a typical company but nowhere near the levels of 140% that preceded the 2021 mania.
—Bailey Lipschultz, Fortune, 13 May 2024
The Tahoe snowfall also broke 24-hour records for May
While this year is nowhere near the record snowfall seen last water year, this weekend broke records for the month of May.
—Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 6 May 2024
But DeLong noted that more than 80% of Tesla’s first-quarter sales were from automotive revenues, adding that car manufacturing has nowhere near the marginal costs of an IT company, which can write code once and run it everywhere.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 4 May 2024
The probe, though nowhere near final, has uncovered a winding trail of drugs, money and murder linked to Florida and Puerto Rico — and a cast of characters previously known to law enforcement in different capacities.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 3 May 2024
The national average is nowhere near the unprecedented spike above $5 a gallon in June 2022.
—Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024
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