What's the difference between nowhere and somewhere?

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.

Somewhere


Definition:

  • (adv.) In some place unknown or not specified; in one place or another.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For somewhere else, perhaps, the show was just about to begin.
  • (2) It was amusing: he's still working away and this picture of him is hanging in a gallery somewhere.
  • (3) I read somewhere that one of the actresses you admire is Charlize Theron and she's another great beauty who started out modelling but whose breakthrough role came when she uglied up [to play serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster ].
  • (4) In this vision, people will go to polling stations on 18 September with a mindset somewhere between that of a lobby correspondent and a desiccated calculating machine.
  • (5) But I'm starting with the job that I can do something about right now – scrabbling around on the floor, picking up three-inch nails and cigarette butts so that the new four-year-olds will have somewhere safe to play at break.
  • (6) All I know is that we have reached somewhere where they will not be shot."
  • (7) The application of this method is situated somewhere between the classic total laryngectomy and the conservative supraglottic, at times finding itself in natural opposition to the expanded supraglottic the lateral-front, the hemilaryngectomy, the crico-ioidopesia and the Serafini-type total laryngectomy.
  • (8) But somewhere along the way, his passion for good, fresh food – admirable and infectious in every respect – appears to have transformed into evangelical life-coaching.
  • (9) It's brown, crusty and cratered, like somewhere Hubble may have sent back a photo of.
  • (10) Its boot always held a bivouac bag, a trenching tool of some sort and a towel and trunks, in case he passed somewhere interesting to sleep, dig, or swim.
  • (11) I thought he'd smash it somewhere near the corner and hope it would go through, and he's left‑footed.
  • (12) There is the sound of engines hissing and crackling, which have been mixed to seem as near to the ear as the camera was to the cars; there is a mostly unnoticeable rustle of leaves in the trees; periodically, so faintly that almost no one would register it consciously, there is the sound of a car rolling through an intersection a block or two over, off camera; a dog barks somewhere far away.
  • (13) And as they tell the current home secretary what she should be doing differently, they are, somewhere deep down, still asking themselves the same question about what went wrong for them.
  • (14) But if you provide a street environment where it’s much more egalitarian, where your granny can cycle to the shops safely and have somewhere to park her Dutch-style bike – that’s when we’ll get those kind of cyclists.
  • (15) Here, anyway, is what increasingly seems to be the future: slick corporate logos flashing from prisons, hospitals, schools, detention centres, defence facilities, police stations and more, and a cut-price society pitched somewhere between Margaret Thatcher and Philip K Dick .
  • (16) I have no experience of an actual car club, but I don't see how you can lose by dispensing with it, unless you live somewhere with very poor public transport.
  • (17) Maybe that’s because it’s somewhere that’s very present in my memory, yet somewhere that I can never visit again.
  • (18) As each microregion contains an unknown amount of embedding medium, this quantity generally lies indeterminately somewhere within the wide range between mmol of element per kg of hydrated tissue and mmol of element per kg of dehydrated tissue.
  • (19) The background was hotter on one side of the sky and cooler on the other: a "dipole" that meant our galaxy was moving at a phenomenal relative speed, which could only be explained if there was a huge undiscovered distant structure somewhere in space, such as a supercluster of galaxies, pulling it (this was found later and is called the "great attractor").
  • (20) The next stop towards freedom will be the capture of Matteo Messina Denaro, who tonight will go to sleep somewhere in western Sicily, possibly in Castelvetrano itself, exercising the same caution he has employed for two decades to stay one step ahead of the police.

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