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Example sentences for "with nothing"

  • McDowell, with forty thousand men, lay at Fredericksburg, with nothing in his front but a few squadrons of cavalry and some infantry regiments.

  • The Third fought for a few moments almost muzzle to muzzle, with nothing but a few rails, hastily piled, between assailants and the assailed.

  • I am virtually dead, with nothing alive in me but my eyes.

  • The person who finally confirmed me in my opinion was a friar of Baku, a sage of pre-eminent wisdom, through his saying to me: 'With nothing at all ought a man to fetter his soul.

  • But none appeared, though more than one, probably, was watching us, with nothing of him above water but his horny eyes.

  • Then if you are ever driving down that Monongatesak road, with nothing to hinder, take the little lame child with you for a mile or two,--she so pines to be out of the house and moving.

  • Just imagine, my dear, that we are adrift in this boat, with nothing at all for dinner, and supper a wild idea!

  • Mr. Linden stopped reading and was silent; and so was she, with nothing of all this appearing otherwise than in the fixed, abstracted look which went out into Pattaquasset but also went far beyond.

  • Capital new locks to every door, capital grates in every room, with nothing to pay for incoming & the rent £10 less than the Islington one.

  • To die, down in that wretched place, to be rolled in a blanket and buried on those desert shores, with nothing but a heap of stones to mark their graves.

  • The old "Newbern," with nothing in her but ballast, rolled and lurched along, through the bright green waters of the outer bar.

  • So we lazily swung along, with nothing to do again.

  • I can look at whole beds of wallflowers every spring, and pass on with nothing but a vague admiration for their massed beauty of scent and color.

  • So I spend strange, glorious days, days strange and glorious to me, with nothing to do for anybody but myself and a clear conscience to do it with.

  • With nothing else to distract him, he could study all its wonders.

  • It has been my fate to see great educational funds fossilise into mere bricks and mortar, in the petrifying springs of architecture, with nothing left to work the institution they were intended to support.

  • Once upon a time, a boy, with nothing to depend upon but his own vigorous nature, was thrown into the thick of the struggle for existence in the midst of a great manufacturing population.

  • We can't live here, with nothing to eat, and no beds, and no shelter, if it should rain.

  • You are shivering now, already, as if it was winter: and the night will be very long, with nothing to eat.

  • Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing:" And Timon says to Flavius: "My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend And nothing brings me all things.

  • With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing.

  • Before that we slept right on the floor, with nothing over us except a little old blanket one of us had.

  • Some of them were left bareheaded and barefooted, with nothing on but their pants and shirts, compelled to stay in that swampy ravine all night long, with nothing to eat, and not permitted to have fires.

  • It was a small room, with nothing in it but a bed, two chairs, and a big chest.

  • With nothing solid to stand upon, then, and much to stand against, this theory must be given up.

  • Days of sweltering under a cruel sun, with nothing to do and apparently nothing to hope for, were followed by cool nights and heavy dews, the heart-rending groans of the sick, and the yelping of numberless prairie wolves.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "with nothing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being come; bulb thermometer; foot level; girl who; gracious unto; other ships; ought always; primary instruction; towards morning; with another; with any; with here and there; with his; with nothing; with one; with orders; with pleasure; with respect; with some; with such; with the; with three; with you; without delay; without further; without which