How to Use nowhere in a Sentence
- I have nowhere to go.
- Nowhere is there more of a population problem than in this city.
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There’ll be nowhere left to go.
—Anna Triponel, Sourcing Journal, 23 Feb. 2026
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Trump's word is nowhere near enough.
—Garrett Downs, CNBC, 1 June 2026
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And there was nowhere to put them.
—Rebecca Traister, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2026
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The roots frayed with nowhere to go.
—Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
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The man was nowhere to be found.
—Edie Peffley, NBC news, 19 May 2026
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That win didn’t come out of nowhere.
—Brendan Keegan, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2026
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His case, of course, went nowhere.
—Albinson Linares, NBC news, 26 Apr. 2026
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The small school that comes from nowhere.
—Tim Rohan, NBC news, 23 Mar. 2026
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But this book gave me nowhere to hide.
—Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
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That work did not come out of nowhere.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 28 Jan. 2026
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That step did not come out of nowhere.
—Jodi Balma, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026
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The breakup did not come out of nowhere.
—Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
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The game was good, nowhere close to great.
—Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
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And this just seems sort of out of nowhere.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 18 Mar. 2026
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The idea was that there was nowhere to hide.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 28 June 2026
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In fact, the girls were nowhere to be found.
—Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
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The move has not come out of nowhere for gold.
—Krysta Escobar,jill Schneider, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
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When the counter is buried, there’s nowhere to chop.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 22 May 2026
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But talk of coups and plots doesn’t come from nowhere.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
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Kendall Drive was the road to nowhere.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2026
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Most of the time, there’s nowhere for that stuff to go.
—Corey Buhay, Outside, 15 Sep. 2025
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These Mets are nowhere close to that pace.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
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There’s nowhere in Venice quite like it.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2025
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Of course, stats-wise, there was nowhere to go but up.
—Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
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That was a lot of time spent to make a path to nowhere.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
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Reese’s Berlin boots don’t come out of nowhere.
—Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 16 Jan. 2026
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Nothing to do and nowhere to be.
—Maggie Meyer Glisan, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 May 2026
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But by then, Denise was nowhere to be found.
—Sarah Dahlberg, NBC news, 26 Apr. 2026
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There was nowhere to go but up from there, but things didn't get much better.
—Joseph Goodman, AL.com, 17 Mar. 2018
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On the car break-in front, there’s nowhere for these agencies to go but up.
—Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Jan. 2018
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Phrases such as ‘nowhere to be seen’ and ‘skipped’ featured in those rewrites.
—SI.com, 5 Nov. 2019
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Others have a bed at a shelter but nowhere to go during the day.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 7 Nov. 2019
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Like a lot of out-of-nowhere box office hits, some of the revenue went up in smoke.
—Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 5 Apr. 2018
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Here's why the bassist moved to this 'middle of nowhere' Arizona town.
—Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 11 Nov. 2025
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The 13 water providers own the rights to the water but have nowhere to store it.
—Dan Elliott, The Denver Post, 18 May 2017
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There was no more out-of-nowhere player last season than Taylor.
—Michael Beller, SI.com, 14 Feb. 2018
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Experts are still working to identify the cause of these out-of-nowhere headaches.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 29 Aug. 2018
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This story starts off small, on the middle-of-nowhere desert planet Jakku.
—Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2019
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And, of course, how about the many, many students who have nowhere to go, or no money to get themselves to a safe place?
—Amy Joyce, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2020
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In fact, nowhere is the curse of modern-day overload more evident than in travel.
—Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Mar. 2018
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He was gobbled up, and would routinely have nowhere to go once Peters beat him off the snap.
—Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 1 Aug. 2017
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Summer can bring out the bugs and nowhere was that more apparent than in this round of Clean Plates.
—Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 2 July 2018
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That only adds to the heat, especially on a massive parking lot where there is no shade and nowhere to hide.
—Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 July 2019
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That left Canadian oil with nowhere to go, filling up storage tanks and sending prices to record lows.
—Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2019
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About one-fifth of the event’s participants said there’s nowhere for financial services firm to hide.
—Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2019
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What's more, disputes between the White House and Congress have nowhere else to go.
—Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2019
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From out of seemingly nowhere, Arsenal didn't just get what was rumoured.
—SI.com, 8 Aug. 2019
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Being around the Region all my life and then going to this small, little town in the middle of nowhere wasn't good for me.
—Rahim Thompson, Post-Tribune, 16 June 2017
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But nowhere was the electorate more disgusted with the choices than right here in Washington.
—Gene Balk / Fyi Guy, The Seattle Times, 23 May 2017
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Egyptian squash is dynamic and unstructured, with out-of-nowhere drop shots and deceptive flicks of the wrist.
—David Segal, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2019
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What's good for ratings are unexpected twists and turns -- out-of-nowhere storylines that upend the whole show.
—Chris Cillizza, CNN, 14 Sep. 2017
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Perhaps nowhere was the distance between black and white abolitionists greater than on the subject of race itself.
—Ira Berlin, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2016
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The small satellite companies that SpaceX had signed up to fly on the Falcon 1 had nowhere to go.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 June 2018
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Thom Weaver’s scenic and lighting design situate the action in a theatrical nowhere.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2019
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Rounding people up off the streets, throwing away their few personal possessions, putting them in jail for the crime of having nowhere to go — what is that?
—BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2019
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There was nowhere to go, nowhere to penetrate, leaving the 76ers pondering major changes over the summer.
—Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2019
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Perhaps nowhere was this more pronounced than in Hong Kong, where demand from mainland buyers contributed to the boom.
—Alfred Liu, Bloomberg.com, 21 May 2017
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What's more, fans got a hint of the EP with a catchy single—and to boot, its video includes an out-of-nowhere starring appearance from a video game.
—Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 13 July 2017
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Streets to nowhere snake through the dirt, ready for future homes.
—Jonathan J. Cooper, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
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And who was nowhere to be found by her side on those red carpets?
—Marie Claire Editors, Marie Claire, 11 Sep. 2021
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But to many of those voters, those changes are nowhere to be found.
—Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Anchorage Daily News, 12 Oct. 2021
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Or was this some sort of out-of-nowhere blip that will be tough to replicate?
—Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Oct. 2021
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His lawyer, who is also his brother, was nowhere to be found.
—Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2021
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When the flu did return this spring, that lineage was nowhere to be found.
—Frances Stead Sellers, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2022
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The tuna weren’t biting, and the mahi-mahi were nowhere to be found.
—Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022
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As word spread that Maya was nowhere to be found, more friends stepped in trying to help.
—CBS News, 19 Feb. 2022
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This movie takes the lake-house-in-the-middle-of-nowhere thriller to the next level.
—Lucia Tonelli, Town & Country, 31 May 2022
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The boy was nowhere to be found after his mother's killing, say police.
—Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com, 19 Oct. 2021
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Defense was nowhere to be found as both teams scored at will in the second quarter.
—Damian Adams, The Arizona Republic, 12 Nov. 2021
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Tennis has had its share of come-out-of-nowhere stories in recent years.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 1 July 2022
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But on Thursday, the tell-tale signs of a letdown were nowhere to be found.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
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Now cruise ships are adding this nowhere-place to their itineraries.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
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Ryan Hayes was nowhere to be found when the Wolverines took the field for pregame warmups.
—Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2022
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All of this is to say, the two have remained best friends so this isn’t, like, an out-of-nowhere visit.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 7 May 2021
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But Holly, who was only an infant at the time, was nowhere to be found.
—Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 10 June 2022
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As the afternoon wore on, the couple’s grandniece was nowhere to be seen.
—Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 21 June 2022
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When the moment shone brightest, Simmons shrunk — and was nowhere to be found.
—Dj Siddiqi, Forbes, 21 June 2021
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Jamie’s ex and their son are nowhere to be seen this week, though, a strange absence after their reunion last time.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
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Tourists — the vast throng that typically jams these places by the tens of thousands — were nowhere to be seen.
—New York Times, 2 July 2021
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But shortly after, witnesses saw the same raft but the woman was nowhere to be seen.
—Rosana Hughes, ajc, 26 June 2022
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However, when Hayek read out the winner, Keaton was nowhere to be found.
—Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2022
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The Avengers are nowhere to be found in Eternals, despite the massive threat.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 25 Aug. 2022
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All of the great stars came from the middle of nowhere, with middle-of-nowhere experiences, just like you and me.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 4 June 2026
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But many classic, mainline Sesame Street episodes that were once on the service are nowhere to be found.
—Vulture, 19 Aug. 2022
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Luka has since acknowledged that the out-of-nowhere nature of the trade left his head not in quite the right place, either.
—Andrew Greif, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2025
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Keyeva had made it out of the fire, but the Martins’ five chickens died in their coop, and their cat was nowhere to be found.
—Hanna Merzbach, The Atlantic, 6 June 2021
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Southerners believe that burning ears out of nowhere means that someone is talking about you.
—Abby Fribush, Southern Living, 7 Apr. 2026
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But when Jennifer arrived and found Michelle – Timmy was nowhere to be found.
—NBC News, 3 May 2022
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