How to Use nonentity in a Sentence

nonentity

noun
  • At the time the house was a nonentity, the models dull, the clients wealthy women who did not dress in the latest styles.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • The mocha frappe had a stinging, strong syrup flavor; the caramel tasted like almost nothing; the chicory was somehow even more of a nonentity.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The mismatched band of captors can’t agree on anything, and thus cannot act; their captive, bound and sedated and locked in a crate, is a nonentity for much of the movie.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Willy’s humiliating status as a nonentity — as well as his ultimate fate — are both thereby sealed.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Ram is a nonentity outside North America.
    — Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 17 May 2025
  • 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
  • Then, war came, transforming Hasson from a nonentity to an important person.
    — Sarah Abrevaya Stein, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2020
  • All Dickens heroes are complete nonentities who know 217 wacky people.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The central father-son dynamic feels forced rather than rooted in history, and Freddy is a nonentity, undefined as a character except in relation to his meddling dad.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Pressed on one side by hard-liners and on the other by opponents of the Islamic Republic, the regime’s centrists and reformists had become political nonentities.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Putin appointed a political nonentity in his place, shifted himself to the position of prime minister, and came right back for a third presidential term in 2012 and then a fourth.
    — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Judy was sort of a nonentity in these films until Annabelle Comes Home, where she was played by Mckenna Grace and given the character development of being ostracized by her classmates over her possible-grifter parents.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • During the Biden Administration, Pakistan had become a virtual pariah in Washington, or had been reduced to a nonentity, as the United States left Afghanistan and saw India as a means of countering China.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026

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