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Example sentences for "nonsense"

Lexicographically close words:
nonproliferation; nonregional; nonresident; nonresistance; nonsectarian; nonsensical; nonsignatory; nonsinse; nonsuit; nonunion
  1. How long has this nonsense been going on?

  2. It's nonsense to say that women have less grit than men.

  3. Here, landlord, what's the meaning of that nonsense on yonder tree?

  4. She would have cried heartily and scolded; his high-flown nonsense wouldn't have had a hearing; it might have been swamped in her tears and in his natural instinct.

  5. Doan't ye heed him; he talks a deal o' nonsense by times," said Barnabas.

  6. If you'd only heard the nonsense you've been chattering all day and night, and the way you've been calling for some one!

  7. Uncle suffers, any one can see that, but he does not dress up in velvet and silk, and laugh, and dance, and talk nonsense merrily over the grave where all his hopes are buried.

  8. All this sorrow for your sentimental nonsense about Maria.

  9. I became resolved to emulate them, to restore a sunken name, and vowed a world of nonsense on the subject.

  10. O superb theatres, too small for parks, too enormous for houses, which exclude comedy and comfort, and have a monopoly for performing nonsense gigantically!

  11. Nonsense yourself," cried Ned; "you have a share in what you never took!

  12. It seems, too, that the manager sent the head waiter to stop their nonsense in the dining room to-night.

  13. We haven't done much to either of you young fellers not a quarter as much as we're going to do if you don't both of you quit your nonsense soon.

  14. Perhaps you fellows think I've been talking nonsense on purpose.

  15. They will come to their senses, and see what nonsense it all is.

  16. But what nonsense it was to think that she could be seriously troubled!

  17. The German Minister, a keen-witted man of the world, made a sign to the Duke and Tullia, and the three disappeared with the first symptoms of vociferous nonsense which precede the grotesque scenes of an orgy in its final stage.

  18. Men might meet to invent more dangerous nonsense than that!

  19. After the nonsense usually indulged in by the officials of literary pauperism such candour as this is positively refreshing.

  20. Many of them never heard a Mother Goose jingle or a nonsense verse, and a book is an unlearned delight.

  21. She talks the wildest nonsense about controlling the world!

  22. A double noose thou on thy neck dost pull, For writing treason and for writing dull; To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

  23. What she said to me sounded such rank nonsense that I jumped in a hansom and went straight back to my rooms.

  24. It must have sounded terrible nonsense to you, of course, but it was the only way I could think of to get him out of the place.

  25. The “formula” furnished is for the most part a jargon of misleading and mystifying nonsense and fulfils the same purpose as the voluble “patter” of the gentleman who is manipulating three shells and a pea at the county fair.

  26. This is a sample of the farrago of pseudo-scientific nonsense sent out by this concern in its attempt to sell “Hemo.

  27. Not to mention the solemnity with which it talks old-fashioned nonsense which it knows perfectly well to be a century behind the times.

  28. It's not nonsense at all: it's true--in a way.

  29. In the end it will grind the nonsense out of you, and grind strength and sense into you.

  30. How can you talk such nonsense about yourself?

  31. At least I have a faint recollection of Leo sleepily explaining that the head was not a bad place to hit a buffalo, if you could catch him exactly between the horns, or send your bullet down his throat, or some nonsense of the sort.

  32. He went off with this girl: wanted to educate her, or some nonsense of the sort.

  33. The hypocritical nonsense of pretending to like opera-music disgusted him.

  34. There isn't a particle of nonsense in her.

  35. Charlie laughed, and the more Mrs. Jennings showed 'er dislike for 'is nonsense the more he gave way to it.

  36. Don't 'ave none of your nonsense there, that's all.

  37. BOXER He talked a mixture of idiotic nonsense and looked away from me while he was talking.

  38. It's all nonsense about being a fag, but there are lots of things you could do for me if you would, and I'd be awfully grateful.

  39. Hamilton never remembered what nonsense he talked that night.

  40. And talk nonsense and the gossip of the Island with these youths when I have naught to say but that my soul has grown wings and that the cold lamp in my breast has blown out, and lit again with the flame that keeps the world alive?

  41. After writing the most amazing nonsense for two hours, Mansell decided that it was wiser not to enter into competition at all with those low tricksters who had prepared their work.

  42. If we can in any way put a check on this nonsense now, if in Fernhurst only, we shall be doing something.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nonsense" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absurdity; babble; balderdash; bombast; claptrap; drivel; flannel; flummery; folly; foolishness; froth; fudge; fustian; gab; gabble; gibber; gibberish; humbug; insanity; jabber; jargon; madness; nonsense; palaver; prate; prattle; rant; rigmarole; rodomontade; romance; rubbish; slaver; stuff; stupidity; swill; talk; trash; trumpery; twaddle