How to Use nonentity in a Sentence
nonentity
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The offense, a nonentity in the early weeks, continued to roll on Tuesday.
—Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2020
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The mocha frappe had a stinging, strong syrup flavor; the caramel tasted like almost nothing; the chicory was somehow even more of a nonentity.
—Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2023
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For much of hockey’s history, France has been a nonentity.
—Tal Pinchevsky, New York Times, 4 May 2017
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With the memories of Monday night fresh in Emery's mind, a big win over the Portuguese nonentities will be a great chance for Arsenal to regain some form and appease the home crowd.
—SI.com, 22 Oct. 2019
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William Rogers, who served as secretary of state during the entirety of the Nixon term, was basically a nonentity.
—Jay Cost, Washington Examiner, 31 Dec. 2020
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The Republican Party has become a nonentity in statewide races — the last time a Republican was elected statewide was in 2006.
—Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2021
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For a media that is primed only to cover politics as a conflict between a red team and a blue team, this bill is basically a nonentity.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 Dec. 2021
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Biden, whose standing is declining as Bloomberg's has risen, was a nonentity during the format, at one point waving his hands to get the moderator's attention.
—Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 19 Feb. 2020
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Sanofi and Regeneron are making the pricing concession in hopes of jump-starting sales of Praluent, which has been a commercial nonentity since winning approval in 2015.
—Damian Garde, STAT, 1 May 2018
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Then, war came, transforming Hasson from a nonentity to an important person.
—Sarah Abrevaya Stein, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2020
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His gargantuan contract may have seemed like job security, but the Raiders are a relative nonentity on the NFL’s power rankings.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2021
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Willy’s humiliating status as a nonentity — as well as his ultimate fate — are both thereby sealed.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2022
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Hutch feels like a nonentity in his own life, beaten down by the ennui of routine; cowed by his own reluctance to violently engage a few burglars, which garners ridicule from his family, friends and the beat cop who takes his statement.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 25 Mar. 2021
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But far from a nonentity, Marshall became the longest-serving and most influential chief justice in history.
—Kate Galbraith, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2018
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Cook, the band’s thunderous timekeeper, is hardly represented, but maybe that’s appropriate; the drummer should be a kind of nonentity.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2020
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Rom-com beats notwithstanding, female friendship is at the heart of the film, with only two significant male characters onscreen and Carla’s fiancé a nonentity.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2022
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A year into his tenure, Ebrahim Raisi, a political nonentity, limits himself to speeches on good governance.
—Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh, WSJ, 12 May 2022
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Chichikov is not only in government: The squeaking wheels of his carriage are audible wherever corrupt nonentities pawn human lives for petty comforts.
—Julian Lucas, New York Times, 2 May 2018
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The consequences of this practice were serious: An illegitimate child was a legal nonentity, like an unbaptized child under old-school Catholic dogma.
—New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
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Unfortunately, the very qualities that make Dr. John such a compelling artist have effectively rendered him a commercial nonentity in the eyes of most record companies, radio programmers and pop fans.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2019
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And now, also in Hollywood fashion, after decades as a nonentity, the L.A. River is having a career revival, starring as itself in an urgent real-time, real-life comeback docudrama.
—Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
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How can someone who commanded over 80 million followers on Twitter before being banned, and who remains the central figure in Republican politics, produce a blog that is such a nonentity in the contemporary media environment?
—Philip M. Napoli, Wired, 5 June 2021
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