almost nothing

idiom

: hardly anything
There's almost nothing in the fridge.

Examples of almost nothing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Some bartenders try to honor the original three-ingredient recipe and pile on the grapefruit juice, making a whiskey greyhound with too much sweetness, while others either reduce the fruit component to almost nothing or else add acidity with lemons or powdered citric acid. Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2024 Despite Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s pledges to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine and bolster Germany’s own feeble military, Berlin’s latest budget slashes aid to Kyiv and does almost nothing to boost domestic defense spending. Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 24 July 2024 And yet his unexcused absence from training camp means almost nothing to the 49ers. Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 25 July 2024 To be fair, almost nothing can equal Seinfeld’s imprint, but in the absence of another true breakout (like, say, Louis-Dreyfus’s Veep or Seinfeld creator Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm) Jerry Seinfeld, the person, has more interest among fans than his current creative works. Aja Romano, Vox, 14 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for almost nothing 

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“Almost nothing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/almost%20nothing. Accessed 20 Aug. 2024.

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