NOWHERE in a Sentence

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India was nowhere to be seen, but Scarlett knew she probably was in the kitchen giving final instructions to the servants.

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 Meanings and Examples of NOWHERE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
nowhere
 ad.  not anywhere; not in any place or state
Classic Sentence: (76 in 6 pages)
1  Mrs. Hale answered simply: "There was nowhere else for her to go;" and my heart tightened at the thought of the hard compulsions of the poor.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  India was nowhere to be seen, but Scarlett knew she probably was in the kitchen giving final instructions to the servants.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  Short of paper, short of ink, short of men, the newspapers had suspended publication after the siege began, and the wildest rumors appeared from nowhere and swept through the town.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  There was nowhere she could get any money, so the idea was out of the question.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  Big Sam was nowhere to be seen and, as she drew rein to wait for him, she worried about his absence, fearing the Yankees might have already picked him up.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
6  There was nowhere else to bring him, Miss Wilkes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
7  Life shorn of either feeling appeared to him a diminished thing; and nowhere was the blending of the two ingredients so essential as in the character of a pretty woman.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
8  Yet, in spite of this, nowhere in all America will you find more patrician-like houses; parks and gardens more opulent, than in New Bedford.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
9  It nowhere appears that he ever actually harpooned his fish, unless, indeed, from the inside.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 82. The Honour and Glory of Whaling.
10  But quickly they returned to him with the tidings that the Parsee was nowhere to be found.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day.
11  He hadn't been seen nowhere except in a little town they call Conway.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
12  Everywhere in the country tonight the old party politicians are studying this vote, and setting their sails by it; and nowhere will they be quicker or more cunning than here in our own city.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
13  The river glanced by with its ordinary velocity, but the canoe was nowhere to be seen on its dark waters.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
14  The eye could range, in every direction, through the long and shadowed vistas of the trees; but nowhere was any object to be seen that did not properly belong to the peaceful and slumbering scenery.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
15  He told me I could go nowhere but that he could get me; and that, in the event of my running away, he should spare no pains in his efforts to catch me.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  I soon realized that being tough was getting me nowhere fast.
2  God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
3  If there is nowhere to stay, we'll have to camp out.
4  God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
5  Baker had to convince jurors that his client had been nowhere near the scene of the murder.
6  It's nowhere near the color I'm looking for.
7  This discussion is leading us nowhere.
8  There was nowhere near enough for everybody.
9  Some species exist in this small area of forest and nowhere else on Earth.
10  I feel lonelier in the middle of London than I do on my boat in the middle of nowhere.
11  The poor has nowhere to live.
12  The train stopped in the middle of the country, getting us nowhere.
13  The house was nowhere near the sea.
14  We were faced with the awful reality of having nowhere to live.
15  The proposal went nowhere in the Senate.