How to Use almost nothing in a Sentence

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  • There is, in some sense, almost nothing left to say about Satoshi Nakamoto.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024
  • There’s almost nothing that Trump or Biden could do to change the minds of the 40% on the other side.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • To this point, the Biden campaign has spent almost nothing in ads on the state and the polling has, to this point, shown Trump well ahead.
    — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 23 Apr. 2024
  • If the setlists have a huge turnover from tour to tour, almost nothing has changed about the basic Sparks live drill.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 July 2023
  • The Emmys these last few years have been a model of all or almost nothing at all.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
  • These two photos have almost nothing in common, and nor do the two artists.
    — The Week Uk, theweek, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The pop star dyed her hair black, then chopped it even shorter, with almost nothing left but a sprig of baby bangs.
    — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Her hair hangs in sweaty, undone waves, and her makeup is pared down to almost nothing apart from body paint.
    — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Driving a cab had earned him fifty thousand rubles at most, and some months almost nothing.
    — Elettra Pauletto, Harper's Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • In the summer, there’s almost nothing better than a refreshing dip in the pool.
    — Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 14 June 2024
  • There’s almost nothing better than kicking back by the pool, laying out on a chair with your legs up.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 29 Mar. 2023
  • That means almost nothing will carry over from the current 718.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 23 Apr. 2023
  • That means almost nothing will carry over from the current 718.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 23 Apr. 2023
  • There’s almost nothing in the history to suggest that jesters always teetered to the point of having their heads chopped off.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The defense, so far, has managed to do almost nothing in response.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The harbor area burned to the ground in Lahaina, leaving almost nothing behind.
    — Andrew Laub, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2023
  • From Jack Harris: The Dodgers have gotten almost nothing but bad news on the pitching injury front this year.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
  • There’s almost nothing else that I’m allowed to tell you about the Blade 16 and Blade 18 until Razer shares all of the details later this week.
    — Cameron Faulkner, The Verge, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Modern sports fans can agree: almost nothing in sports is two hours anymore.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022
  • And as with Lynch and Tillman, Howley shows, the truth was almost nothing like what was widely reported at the time.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The company has had almost nothing but problems for more than five years.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 8 Aug. 2024
  • There's almost nothing cozier than knit fabric, and this cardigan is made of a wool yarn blend that's soft to touch.
    — Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The survey has almost nothing but good news for the former president.
    — Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Most of them sound almost nothing like their final versions, which points up one of the limitations of this set.
    — David Weininger, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022
  • When that book came out in 1976 there was almost nothing on perennials, unlike now.
    — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
  • When that book came out in 1976 there was almost nothing on perennials, unlike now.
    — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
  • And yet his unexcused absence from training camp means almost nothing to the 49ers.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 25 July 2024
  • Yet for thousands of species that scientists know almost nothing about, the strange landscape is a happy home — for now.
    — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The veneration had something, or almost nothing at all, to do with the piano.
    — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • The water in my kitchen sink started coming out as a drizzle, and later almost nothing at all.
    — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 22 May 2024

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