How to Use nonexistence in a Sentence

nonexistence

noun

• That made my career path pretty clear, along with the nonexistence of women doing play-by-play.
  — Jon Schultz, SFChronicle.com, 25 Jan. 2021
• That, though, was a lyrical and oblique work that heard the abyss of nonexistence roaring within long silences.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2019
• The last definition of absence is the nonexistence or lack of.
  — Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• And what should such existence or nonexistence actually mean for us here on earth?
  — Christopher Beha, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• Our last conscious moment was the moment when our passing nonexistence and our final one would marry.
  — Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
• Devices that aspire to nonexistence can still, however, be big business.
  — Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
• The nonexistence of any such relationship is among the agonies that torment him.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2019
• But there was something about the nonexistence of female foosball tables that brought home the magnitude of this form of gender bias.
  — Washington Post, 8 June 2019
• There are a lot of ways to interpret that, but one thing that is built into the conceit of the show is that, for the innies, the choice is work or nonexistence.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
• For nonbinary youth like Davi, that means nothing less than a shift from nonexistence to existence in the eyes of the law.
  — Annie Tritt, Vox, 28 Mar. 2018
• One exception is Buddhism, which preaches the nonexistence of a stable self.
  — Steve Ayan, Scientific American, 15 May 2018
• My family does not celebrate this, and the other children camping with us all are aware of the nonexistence of the bunny.
  — Mallory Ortberg, Slate Magazine, 17 Apr. 2017
• Examples of over-blocking — blocking of non-infringing content — have been rare to the point of nonexistence.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2024
• There was no perceivable difference between his existence and nonexistence, as far as any of us were concerned.
  — Mikhail Iossel, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2017
• Going from nonexistence to existence is a remarkable feat.
  — The Athletic, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
• After anticipating these messages for hours, their nonexistence felt like an even greater letdown.
  — Ellen O'Brien, Outside Online, 12 Jan. 2023
• Something happened online, but the details are fuzzy because all the context has been flattened into nonexistence.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
• Aside from the existential issue that is Pete's nonexistence, little else goes wrong.
  — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
• Others have pointed out how the line separating some docuseries from reality soaps has blurred to near-nonexistence.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 1 Apr. 2021
• The body simply won’t lose consciousness, and losing it is something that cannot be willed into existence, or, rather, into nonexistence.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
• With more and more systems and solutions being moved to the cloud, after-hours and on-call work has waned to a degree of near nonexistence in most tech environments.
  — Paige Francis, Forbes, 7 May 2022
• These irrepressible death thoughts (as the film describes them) don’t make too much sense — does Paddington Bear worry about nonexistence?
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
• Again The Times Sports editors have relegated track and field to nonexistence.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• The charming monstrosity abhors Bonnie’s love, though, and would rather return to the warm embrace of nonexistence.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 13 June 2019
• One that has continuously attempted to push nonwhites into nonexistence through crusades that have been defended by the law.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 13 Apr. 2018
• The existence or nonexistence of an investigation is almost an exogenous factor of its own.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 11 July 2017
• The fear of literal nonexistence through death is addressed by many philosophical and religious traditions.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 4 June 2020
• Every emotion in New Orleans is amplified, either by alcohol or heat or the constant threat of nonexistence.
  — Jeanie Riess, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2025
• The Ultimates #4 dives deeper into the Fantastic Four's nonexistence in this world.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2024
• Because the presumption of nonexistence does not allow for the possibility of live crawfish steamed in chile sauce, while Nothingness the restaurant does.
  — Jonathan Gold, latimes.com, 29 Sep. 2017