nonentities

Example Sentences

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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

Somebody asks Pence a question and he responds like they are nonentities.

From Salon • Oct. 13, 2020

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

Paulet was as obedient to the prevailing wind as a weathercock; Wriothesley was an obsequious, greedy sycophant; Paget a humble official with little influence, and the rest were nonentities.

From The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp