How to Use nonentity in a Sentence

nonentity

noun

• The offense, a nonentity in the early weeks, continued to roll on Tuesday.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2020
• 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
• For much of hockey’s history, France has been a nonentity.
  — Tal Pinchevsky, New York Times, 4 May 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• After listening to our conflicting points of view, journalists threw up their hands and declared us a mystery, a conundrum, and a nonentity.
  — Héctor Tobar, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
• 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
• Then, war came, transforming Hasson from a nonentity to an important person.
  — Sarah Abrevaya Stein, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Willy’s humiliating status as a nonentity — as well as his ultimate fate — are both thereby sealed.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024