How to Use for nothing in a Sentence

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• And not for nothing, the playoffs would’ve been at least a smidge less crazy-making with Landale available.
  — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 1 July 2026
• The Peacock drama felt engineered for nothing more than capturing a weekend crowd, the kind of binge that dominates social media for three days and is then forgotten entirely.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2026
• Waiting any longer would result in Bisiwu walking for nothing in the near future, and Barça are also managing to land Karim Adeyemi using this approach.
  — Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
• Michael Kesselring is a bounce-back candidate that Grier essentially added for nothing to start upgrading an already suspect defense that will lose longtime minutes muncher Mario Ferraro to free agency.
  — Eric Stephens, New York Times, 28 June 2026
• Plus, Hildeby, 24, is waiver-eligible this fall, so the Leafs were concerned about losing him for nothing with Sergei Bobrovsky and Anthony Stolarz under contract.
  — James Mirtle, New York Times, 1 July 2026
• A week’s worth of shouting for nothing The reinstatement of Folarin Balogun quite literally became an international political incident.
  — Chris Branch, New York Times, 7 July 2026