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

Thus we get, most recently, NBC’s ludicrous “La Brea” and Apple TV+’s mopey “Invasion,” which ask their audiences to invest themselves in the struggles of nonentities wrapped in enigmas.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 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

Thus Cicero, feeling that if this were nothing, then had all his life been a skirmish, one continued skirmish for shadows and nonentities; a feeling of blank desolation, too startling—too humiliating to be faced.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)