nowheres
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of nowheres
Example Sentences
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The air has been sucked out of all these claustrophobic nowheres.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2022
A boy he knew, he said, complained that his brother had been "twowheres and I ain't been nowheres."
From Time Magazine Archive
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It is also one of the best-known little nowheres in the country.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There was no vegetables nowheres and Biddy looked ghostie white.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
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Highway 19 and 129, which despite having two numbers was really just a back road through a high pass between wooded nowheres.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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