How to Use nothing of the sort in a Sentence

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  • The videos, which were released last week, showed nothing of the sort.
    Mitch Smith, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • For years, nothing of the sort existed on the right to respond.
    The Editors, National Review, 19 Sep. 2023
  • But nothing of the sort has been announced yet, so for the time being, Nvidia takes the lead at this price point.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 1 Dec. 2020
  • With a laugh, Thomas admitted nothing of the sort has happened to him.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2022
  • What’s framed as a favor for the newly unemployed is nothing of the sort.
    Stephen Ford, WSJ, 26 July 2021
  • Experts have noted that SpaceX had nothing of the sort present at their Starship launch.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
  • Experts have noted that SpaceX had nothing of the sort present at their Starship launch.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
  • New election laws ensure that nothing of the sort will ever happen.
    Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
  • This apparent call for regime change in Moscow, was, we were instantly told, nothing of the sort.
    Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
  • White spoke publicly for the first time on Wednesday, however, and said the reality is nothing of the sort.
    Mike Bohn, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2022
  • There was nothing of the sort before the Stars-Avalanche game, and no demonstrations during the national anthems.
    Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Claims of fraud and finagling in the 2020 presidential election are met by facts and legal rulings that support nothing of the sort.
    Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2021
  • Public health experts believed nothing of the sort, and by late June the nation was setting new records each day for infections.
    Johnny Edwards, ajc, 28 Oct. 2021
  • In the end, Archer’s testimony—taken that afternoon, released later in the week—did nothing of the sort.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Facebook, Google and others who live off the algorithmic revenues from such tracking do nothing of the sort.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Unfortunately, the paper of Black et al contains nothing of the sort.
    James Freeman, WSJ, 3 May 2022
  • But Brands says nothing of the sort explicitly, leaving the readers to decide for themselves.
    Daniel J. Samet, National Review, 27 Feb. 2022
  • The forum has announced nothing of the sort, and the post presents no credible evidence proving otherwise.
    Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2022
  • His books tend to include propulsive plots, often everyday heroes, true love and happy endings, though his childhood promised nothing of the sort.
    Karen Heller, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • Worry Darling’s’ back story has become the year’s most appalling Hollywood train wreck, the movie itself, to some relief but also some disappointment, is nothing of the sort.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • As success stories go, this one was downright dangerous, offering hope in a pandemic when reality suggests nothing of the sort.
    Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Millions of Brazilians appear to be convinced that October’s presidential election was rigged against Mr. Bolsonaro, despite audits and analyses by experts finding nothing of the sort.
    Jack Nicas, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023
  • But in reality, tapping the accelerator in a Bolt would do nothing of the sort, as there's no gasoline engine under the hood and its quiet electric motor wouldn't be capable of producing such an interruption, especially not while parked.
    Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 10 June 2021

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