How to Use almost nothing in a Sentence
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And the world sits by and says and does almost nothing.
—Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2026
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At first, there was almost nothing.
—Jimmy Jellinek, SPIN, 7 Apr. 2026
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At first glance, almost nothing.
—Javier Garcia Del Moral september 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
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Sometimes a long soak seems to do almost nothing.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 26 Nov. 2025
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There’s almost nothing in the way of metaphor or trickery.
—Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 25 Feb. 2026
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Three months before the park opens there’s still almost nothing there.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
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These two photos have almost nothing in common, and nor do the two artists.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 4 Apr. 2024
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There’s almost nothing left, even of Gaza City.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
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There's almost nothing more useless on a set than the writer.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 16 July 2025
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Meanwhile, our own state leaders have done almost nothing to fight back.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 10 July 2025
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Driving a cab had earned him fifty thousand rubles at most, and some months almost nothing.
—Elettra Pauletto, Harper's Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
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Zelensky seems to have learned almost nothing from that episode.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
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Her hair hangs in sweaty, undone waves, and her makeup is pared down to almost nothing apart from body paint.
—Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 1 Sep. 2023
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The Emmys these last few years have been a model of all or almost nothing at all.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
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The couple has a bed from Ikea and almost nothing on the walls, except a crack.
—Emily Zemler, Architectural Digest, 10 July 2026
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The company has had almost nothing but problems for more than five years.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 8 Aug. 2024
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This means that the children who need help the most are receiving almost nothing.
—William Lambers, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2025
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The pop star dyed her hair black, then chopped it even shorter, with almost nothing left but a sprig of baby bangs.
—Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 28 Nov. 2022
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A couple of months before the grand opening there was almost nothing there.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
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Shelter workers knew almost nothing about his past except that he’d been found as a stray.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
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There is almost nothing better than curling up with a little cat in your lap at the end of a long day.
—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
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While costing almost nothing to fire, the setup costs for these laser systems are huge.
—Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
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There’s almost nothing better than kicking back by the pool, laying out on a chair with your legs up.
—Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 29 Mar. 2023
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The defense, so far, has managed to do almost nothing in response.
—Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2023
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There is, in some sense, almost nothing left to say about Satoshi Nakamoto.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024
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If the setlists have a huge turnover from tour to tour, almost nothing has changed about the basic Sparks live drill.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 18 July 2023
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Because of the listing, almost nothing about the building can be changed.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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And there’s almost nothing like it in movie music before Williams.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2025
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But there was a distinct sound that shook Bears players, too — the sound of almost nothing at all.
—Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2026
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The raw quantity of time one spends in the thrall of screens says almost nothing about the value of the time spent.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
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