almost nothing

idiom

: hardly anything
There's almost nothing in the fridge.

Examples of almost nothing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web There's almost nothing more relaxing after a day of skiing or snowboarding than soaking in a hot spring. Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 11 Feb. 2024 When the fadeout abruptly brings tragedy into this picture — a turn torn from real-life experience, as evidenced by closing dedication text — its force is muffled by the fact that the film has done almost nothing prior to mine character depths or stir our own deeper emotions. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024 Not a big win but the Pacers gave up almost nothing; second-round picks are useful and Nwora averaged 9.7 points in limited time with the Pacers before being included in the Siakam deal. Nat Newell, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Jan. 2024 Sony enjoys no benefit from sitting on its property, and the music costs it almost nothing to disseminate. Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024 In today’s landscape, almost nothing short of a debate can provide that common focus. Matthew Yglesias, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2024 Defensively, the Bruins gave Marquette almost nothing easy inside, giving the Golden Eagles some opportunities from long range. Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023 By limiting itself to the period of 1976-1978, the film shows us almost nothing of how Marley rose up in Jamaica and helped to forge the inside-out-rock-‘n’-roll form of reggae, building on its roots in ska and rocksteady and R&B. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Feb. 2024 Words that come to mean much more than originally intended eventually come to mean almost nothing at all — a victory for future génocidaires who’d like the world to think there’s no moral or legal difference between one kind of killing and another. Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024

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“Almost nothing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/almost%20nothing. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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