What's the difference between anywhere and nowhere?

Anywhere


Definition:

  • (adv.) In any place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He can open doors anywhere and they would at least have someone else to blame.
  • (2) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
  • (3) It also has one of the highest female university rates anywhere in the world.” The UAE-based Rotana hotels is planning to open a number of hotels in Iran, and France’s leading hotelier, Accor, is involved in at least two four-star hotels in the country.
  • (4) "We were the ones with the most over-indebted banks, the most over-indebted households and we had the biggest budget deficit of virtually any country, anywhere in the world.
  • (5) As a proportion of our workforce we have got more PhDs per head of population in Copeland than anywhere else in the UK.
  • (6) Oregon’s governor on Wednesday signed trailblazing legislation that will raise the minimum wage to nearly $15 in six years, and do so through a three-tiered system that has not been tried anywhere else in the country.
  • (7) "Unless we give people better content and better coverage, we ain't going anywhere.
  • (8) "Maybe that's why they can't afford anywhere bigger: because they're always late for work."
  • (9) Maintaining air links between cities as far apart as Inverness and London makes sense, but at the same time we must invest in improvements to our rail network and make it easy to use technology to do business from anywhere in Scotland.
  • (10) Yet Texas’s big cities are some of the most diverse in the nation, and last year 7,214 refugees were resettled in the state – more than anywhere else in the country .
  • (11) These results display the sensitivity of simple H-exchange measurements for finding and characterizing effects on structure and dynamics that may occur anywhere in the protein and help to define conditions for higher resolution approaches that can localize the changes observed.
  • (12) Angioleiomyomas are rare smooth-muscle tumors that occur anywhere in the body.
  • (13) A study of 425 patients demonstrated that a pyodestructive process, located anywhere, affects platelet functional properties, resulting in the first place, in disorders of spontaneous cell disaggregation.
  • (14) The New Economics Foundation guessed that it could be anywhere between 3.4 and 8.3p ; 8.3 pence was so far beyond what anyone else forecast that I treated it as scarcely credible.
  • (15) Big organisations, whether in the private, public or charitable sectors usually have independent internal audit before getting anywhere near the external auditors.
  • (16) As Llewellyn and others reached for their briefcases Ashdown roared that nobody was going anywhere.
  • (17) The judge noted the “seriousness of these offences and impact on road traffic, particularly given the number of fines previously issued against BT by TfL for similar offences.” Firms undertaking work anywhere in London need a permit before digging up the roads, allowing highway authorities to coordinate work to minimise disruption.
  • (18) In 1985, Omura, Y. discovered that, when specific molecules were placed anywhere in the close vicinity of the path of a light beam (laser), their molecular information, as well as information on electrical & magnetic fields, is transmitted bi-directionally along the path of this light beam.
  • (19) The "golden postcodes" of Knightsbridge, Belgravia, Mayfair and Chelsea, says one agent, "offer among the most desired places to live anywhere in the world".
  • (20) After 10 years in prison I feel safe pretty much anywhere,” he said.

Nowhere


Definition:

  • (adv.) Not anywhere; not in any place or state; as, the book is nowhere to be found.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
  • (2) Matteo Renzi, the Italian leader who has argued it would be a disaster if Britain left the EU, suggested defensiveness about freedom of movement led to nowhere apart from opening the door to “right-wing xenophobia and nationalism” in Europe .
  • (3) And a free-kick in a dangerous area... 2.48am GMT 38 mins When Houston do get the ball they are all so deep that there's nowhere for it to go, and so possession immediately falls back to SKC.
  • (4) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
  • (5) The nightmare for western intelligence services is that our societies are under permanent threat from what may prove "one-time" terrorist cells that emerge from nowhere, without "form" on any government database, to launch an attack.
  • (6) In that context, the amount paid for late-career work like Women of Algiers is probably a good investment; while it has nowhere near the raw energy of early masterpieces such as Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) or the significance of mid-career icons such as Guernica (1937), in an international market where the artist’s name casts a spell on potential buyers, it’s a respectable piece that can be immediately identified as a “Picasso”.
  • (7) "Robin van Persie scored more than 30 goals [the season before last] and they were nowhere near the title.
  • (8) It's ridiculous, because there will soon be a massive public outcry about how there's nowhere for kids to go.
  • (9) The device has further been designed to alter the filtration velocity along the membrane so that the critical filtration velocity is nowhere exceeded, i.e., concentration polarization effects are prevented.
  • (10) I then asked Camhs to help me with social care as I was getting nowhere with them.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gunfire breaks out in Istanbul during attempted military coup For more than two hours, Erdoğan was nowhere to be seen and could only make an eventual statement to broadcasters via FaceTime.
  • (12) "And, second, over the last 20 years in European politics, one of the lessons that has been learned has been that, when it comes to the radical right, the strategy of condemnation and of ridicule has got us nowhere."
  • (13) Conservationists fear that it will have nowhere to go as climate change causes temperatures to rise.
  • (14) But without a dose of rethinking, the Republicans are heading nowhere.
  • (15) There is nowhere to go except further into an area of the city 750 metres wide by 500 metres deep that runs along the coast from the television station – with its pair of wrecked and punctured dishes – to the edge of District Two, overlooked by the pavilion and its sagging roof.
  • (16) This is a lot of money, but nowhere near as much as I thought – and the London Women’s Clinic offers egg freezing free to women who also donate to an egg bank.
  • (17) At least that’s what one sewing blogger’s followers decided after an internet troll came out of nowhere to tell her she should “eat less cake”.
  • (18) She appeared out of nowhere, said a few words that no one could hear and then slowly made her way through the photographers to a cab and vanished: a great, big, fruitily dressed fairy godmother who, when you come to think of it, bears not the slightest resemblance to any of the other seven billion people on the planet.
  • (19) As Harvey said with such flair, "nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten path".
  • (20) Airlines operate in a legislative vacuum, a transnational, extralegal limbo, accountable nowhere and to no one.

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