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Example sentences for "having nothing"

  • Those who steal provisions are poor famished devils, having nothing to eat.

  • He begged of me, but I gave him nothing, having nothing to give.

  • The poor things complained of having nothing to eat; I sent Said with some victuals for them.

  • Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business.

  • This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself, and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense.

  • Having nothing to do but defend the battery, if an attempt was made to capture it, they were lying close to the ground behind the big trees.

  • I slept late this morning, till long after breakfast, and then, having nothing to get up for, lay and dozed until dinner time.

  • The loose discipline comes of having nothing to do.

  • Having nothing to eat, I went off again to sleep.

  • You must find it very dull work sitting here all day, having nothing to do," I remarked.

  • Having nothing better to do, he was going off to sleep when he heard a bolt withdrawn from the outside, and a light streamed in to where he lay.

  • Having nothing to learn now, he thought of this frequently; though not so often as he might have done, if he had had fewer things to think of.

  • The council downstairs are in full conclave all this time, and, having nothing to do, perform perfect feats of eating.

  • Rob, having nothing more to say, began to chalk, slowly and laboriously, on the table.

  • He would fly to the earth for material, but return to the nest from above, pitching down to it as if having nothing to hide.

  • They flitted about the branches warbling, as if having nothing special to do; dear little souls, at work as at play, always together.

  • At length, lifting up my eyes to the broad and leafy canopy of the trees, I said, having nothing better to remark, "What a noble tree!

  • When I had sowed my little trifle of corn in the bit of ground that my father left me, having nothing better to do, I sat down and wrote a set of lines to my lord, in which I told him what a fine old gentleman he was.

  • Ryabovitch, having nothing to do and wishing to take part in the general movement, slouched after them.

  • It somehow happened one July Sunday that Dmitri Petrovitch and I, having nothing to do, drove to the big village of Klushino to buy things for supper.

  • What mortal, what fashionable mortal, is there who has not, in the midst of a formidable circle, been reduced to the embarrassment of having nothing to say?

  • I'd not be the better o' that, no more than of having nothing to do; I that have been always used to the work, what should I do all the day without it?

  • But there were no nests, and, although we found one fresh egg, it was evidently a case of sporadic laying, having nothing to do with home-building.

  • The equation of personal taste is as powerful in reading as in eating; and within certain broad limits the matter is merely one of individual preference, having nothing to do with the quality either of the book or of the reader's mind.

  • Having nothing further to say he sipped his beer.

  • Having nothing to do, I took my Moniteur du Puy de Dôme, which I had not read, to the café which commands a view of the park gates and the general going and coming of Royat.

  • In it I could see myself reflected, so, having nothing better to do, in view of contingencies which of a sudden had become possible, I amused myself by taking count of my personal appearance.

  • Corneille, having nothing else to do, accepted the proposal, and to this chance circumstance the world apparently owes The Cid.

  • Whatever it may be, I shall be sure of having nothing to repent of.

  • He has been here a month, and, having nothing better to do, I have observed him, and have not discovered a single inconsistency in his conduct.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "having nothing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another while; fairly large; having already; having become; having been the first; having caused; having come; having died; having failed; having fallen; having given; having heard; having killed; having little; having lost; having only; having received; having reference; having regard; having seven heads and ten horns; having slain; having succeeded; having taken; having three; like face; said deliberately