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

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

The specialist’s view of the world logically narrows itself down to a race of nonentities for nothings.

From The Lost Art of Reading by Lee, Gerald Stanley