(n.) A person of no influence or importance; an insignificant or contemptible person.
Example Sentences:
(1) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
(2) I knocked for quite some time but there was nobody there.” A neighbour said the family had not been home for “a while”.
(3) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
(4) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
(5) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
(6) 8.39pm GMT 44 mins: Bunbury is sent clear on Sporting's left but nobody is up in support and he loses the ball.
(7) Before the AKP came to power, nobody had heard of Turkey and our politicians.
(8) They are learning that education isn’t stimulating and nobody is listening to their needs.
(9) Even if nobody switched party, the general election result would look very different to what’s predicted if millennials could be persuaded to vote at the same rate as pensioners, as polls factor in turnout differences and oversample the elderly accordingly.
(10) "); hopeless self-pity ("Nobody said anything to me about Billy ... all day long") and rage ("You want to put a bench in the park in Billy's name?
(11) Nobody was surprised when the house agreed unanimously, or at least nem con, to get the whole matter investigated by Mr Bryant's committee.
(12) Quantitative easing, which nobody had heard of until it started happening, entered the language.
(13) Nobody said anything to me.” The victory was Villa’s second over Albion in five days.
(14) He admitted that he had “no reason” to fire the shots that killed Steenkamp, as Nel told him: “Your version is so improbable, that nobody would ever think it’s reasonably, possibly true, it’s so impossible … Your version is a lie.” Nel said the phrase “I love you” appeared only twice in WhatsApp messages from Steenkamp and, on both occasions, they were written to her mother: “Never to you and you never to her.” Day 20: live coverage as it happened.
(15) For a while he stayed put, biding his time, anxious that when the move came (and nobody doubted there would be a move) it would be the right one.
(16) But nobody got the reference and "the next day it was literally on CNN".
(17) Nobody's mobile phone bill should come to £230 in one month.
(18) "We have rhetorical pressure, which we are using, and we have the Seventh Fleet, which nobody wants to use, and in between our options are more constrained," he said.
(19) It would leave us facing a world nobody would want to inhabit.
(20) Trump on replacing healthcare law that took years to craft: 'Nobody knew it could be so complicated' Read more Trump held meetings with state governors and health insurance company executives at the White House on Monday.
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.