not a soul
Example Sentences
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“Mariachi Plaza was completely empty. There was not a soul there,” Bass recalled a few hours later.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2025
In politics, it's an axiom if not a flat-out rule that you should have, if not a soul, at least a brain.
From Salon • Sep. 16, 2023
It is not a soul made for television, though that’s how most people of his time would have known him.
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023
“Now, after the media released what happened, there’s not a soul in sight, and it just takes away from the recreation and passion of fishing.”
From Washington Times • Mar. 24, 2023
As the undertakers prepared to leave, one said to the other, “Well, that’s that. Almost a hundred years old and not a soul to mourn her.”
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
