adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
appear from nowhere/out of nowhere (= appear suddenly and unexpectedly )
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The car seemed to appear from nowhere.
appear from nowhere/out of nowhere (= appear suddenly and unexpectedly )
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The car seemed to appear from nowhere.
not nearly/nowhere near enough informal (= much less than you need )
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We only had $500, and that was nowhere near enough to buy a new camcorder.
nothing/no one/nowhere in particular
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‘What did you want?’ ‘Oh, nothing in particular.’
nowhere to be found (= could not be found )
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Her mother went to the shops, and on her return, Kathleen was nowhere to be found .
was nowhere to be found (= could not be found )
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We searched everywhere but the ring was nowhere to be found .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fast
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Yet in 1978, Montague was going nowhere fast .
■ VERB
appear
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Mary of Guise's name nowhere appears , but she must surely have been involved.
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Nearly half of these species appear nowhere else on the planet and would become extinct unless the Andes hot spot was saved.
find
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The extra pairs had been there all the time; they had simply found nowhere to nest before.
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Yet I have found nowhere To leave my misery.
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But the General was not in his office; he was not in his quarters; he could be found nowhere .
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These crabs are found nowhere else in the world.
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His room had a smell that could be found nowhere else in the house.
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They are home to 18 species of fish, nine of which are found nowhere else in the world.
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Ramsey could find nowhere to live within the parish.
get
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I should be able to do something about it and it was a depressing thought that I was getting nowhere .
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Louis Cardinals out in Bloomington, and getting nowhere .
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It had puzzled and frustrated her that she had got nowhere .
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But the skirt was so full and my arm so tired that I seemed to be getting nowhere .
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Wycliffe was getting nowhere , though Tate was answering his questions without protest and, apparently, without guile.
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I submit those stats and I get nowhere .
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Henceforward lie could be assured that a King's Party would get nowhere in Parliament.
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If you found that your performance was questionable, you will get nowhere by denying or defending it.
go
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I ain't going nowhere near them.
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Indeed, the trading profit went nowhere in 2000.
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Two years of short-lived study plans and short-term jobs, two years of going nowhere , had taken their toll.
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Now he says Labour's going nowhere and he can't take the back stabbing from other members.
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An agreement signed by presidents Clinton and Yeltsin in January 1994 to consider steps to make arms reduction irreversible has gone nowhere .
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The measure went nowhere in the House, where some Hispanic lawmakers feared it would not increase the number of Hispanic judges.
lead
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I roamed around archways leading nowhere and windows framed by stone walls standing in isolation.
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The huge structures have endless corridors, barren hallways like tunnels that turn back upon themselves, leading nowhere .
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He was unable to visualize these acts because he knew they led nowhere .
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Often there are discoveries which lead nowhere and do not attract much, or indeed any attention.
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When Heather disappeared, I thought it was a lead worth following, but it led nowhere .
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This was a one-way track, leading nowhere .
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However, it is a course that leads nowhere .
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She had done enough of that over the past few weeks, and had found that it led nowhere .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be getting/be going nowhere fast
flattery will get you everywhere/nowhere
get (sb) somewhere/anywhere/nowhere
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Annie A very nice symbolic action, but on its own it gets us exactly nowhere.
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Anxiety will get you nowhere, wrote Harsnet.
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Continual moaning and criticism of others gets you nowhere.
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Everyone has got to start somewhere.
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It doesn't get you anywhere.
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Looks like he hated Albert more than anything-but he never would let him get a job anywhere else.
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New York gave you freedom, indulged tastes and vices that could get you hanged somewhere else, but at a price.
in the middle of nowhere
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Michael lives way out in the middle of nowhere.
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And then going to this little tiny restaurant in the middle of nowhere.
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Another minor hockey league out in the middle of nowhere.
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Even out there, in the middle of nowhere, it was a beautiful evening.
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Even the ponds looked healthy, the little streams we crossed in the middle of nowhere.
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Eventually it stopped in the middle of nowhere.
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It was in the middle of nowhere.
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M., and we were in the middle of nowhere.
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What was I doing cavorting with boulders in the middle of nowhere?
lead nowhere/not lead anywhere
nowhere near/not anywhere near
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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When the cold hit, there was nowhere for them to go.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And that's the worst, not having a job, nowhere to go and nowhere to live.
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And we had nowhere to go if we had been found unworthy.
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Giant amphipods, the size of rats, appear out of nowhere to nibble on the remains.
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It's laid waste to nowhere .
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Louis Cardinals out in Bloomington, and getting nowhere .
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Since 1988, the number of applications from people who say they have nowhere to live has soared from 160 to 629.
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The image will seem to magically appear on screen from nowhere .
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There was no respite from them, nowhere to hide from them.