nonentities
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The velocity at which running backs go from the country’s biggest athletic stars to nonentities can be jarring.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021
Autocratic leaders, as Joachim Fest writes, are often "demonic nonentities."
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2021
He was a nonentity even among the nonentities who remained after Yeltsin’s perpetual clearing-out of his cabinets.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2017
A continual worry is that those in the balcony cheap seats might fall while trying to get a better view, setting off a "Niagara of nonentities."
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2015
Secure in his parliamentary majorities and the favours of his queen, he imagined the people at large mere nonentities, and set them at defiance, while he must have laughed at their tameness and stupidity!
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton
