How to Use in the middle of nowhere in a Sentence

in the middle of nowhere

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  • This is not a transplant of a high-end hotel in the middle of nowhere.
    Emily Adler, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Rue drives to a house in the middle of nowhere owned to do a dropoff for Laurie.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Not bad for a Friday morning in the middle of nowhere.
    Paul Brady, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Nov. 2018
  • None of that distracted me from the charm of swimming in the middle of nowhere.
    Lauren Breedlove, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
  • A long way away from an In-N-Out chaos in the middle of nowhere.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Sep. 2022
  • The railway starts from Kenya’s coastal region but ends in the middle of nowhere.
    Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Franco opens his film not on these two, but on a semitruck in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere.
    ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The drug that John found was being in the middle of nowhere and keeping himself alive.
    David Gardner, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • What explains the ambulance and van showing up so quickly in the middle of nowhere?
    Vanessa Garcia, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
  • Imagine being stranded, alone, on a road in the middle of nowhere during a blizzard.
    Collin Morgan, Car and Driver, 4 Jan. 2023
  • For the rest of the trip, we were based at Explora, a luxury lodge in the middle of nowhere.
    Teddy Minford, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2022
  • One night, there was a storm—sudden and powerful, the kind that, up in the middle of nowhere, can knock out the power for days.
    Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
  • After landing in Hungary, a day before the grand showcase, the group’s bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere.
    Lé Baltar, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Two guys find their soulmates in the middle of nowhere — just how autobiographical was this movie?
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The ambassador worried about a case built on life insurance and a love triangle, about a mystery in the middle of nowhere.
    Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2022
  • This included small boulders and tough vegetation that sprouted in the middle of nowhere with recent rains.
    Mercedes Lilienthal, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Producers just dumped Rachel in the middle of nowhere just so Tino could make a big entrance by driving up in a Jeep.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Being in the middle of nowhere and unknown to short-wave radios seems pretty key to keeping them safe from Infected and raiders.
    Kyle Orland & Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Entrepreneurs with grand ideas for raising a new city also coveted all those acres at Yeehaw Junction in the middle of nowhere.
    Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The ride is part of a traveling carnival, seemingly set up in the middle of nowhere, and a storm is coming in the form of Stan Carlisle.
    New York Times, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Can two strong women with very different coping strategies on the journey from grief to release meet each other somewhere in the middle – out in the middle of nowhere?
    Cindy Kent, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Pamlico Sound found a dog paddling in the middle of nowhere Saturday, May 14.
    al, 16 May 2022
  • West Florida found a largely intact 19th century stove in the middle of nowhere — surrounded by bricks.
    al, 28 Feb. 2022
  • In the ensuing shootout, Pine narrowly manages to escape with his life, but is last seen, after hours of walking in the forest, collapsing in the middle of nowhere.
    Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Brasília was built from scratch, in the middle of nowhere, in the hostile climate of the Cerrado—a savanna-like biome—hundreds of miles from any highway, railway, or airport.
    Sophia La Banca, JSTOR Daily, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Readers of Shakespeare’s late romance will remember that this ship runs into a tempest that disgorges its passengers onto a strange island in the middle of nowhere.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The film centers on Itsy Levan, who is devastated by her parents’ decision to leave the city and buy a fixer upper in the middle of nowhere.
    Manori Ravindran, Variety, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The smell is nauseating as the sun bakes down on the ranch in Alpine, Utah, which, on this day the summer of 1981, may as well have been in the middle of nowhere.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Living in the middle of nowhere with his reptile-studying mom, Charlie, 11, is spirited away to the Lizard Kingdom.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Williams' chapter tells the story of Gina, a regular woman who is building a home with her husband (James Le Gros) in the middle of nowhere.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2023

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