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Example sentences for "know nothing"

  • I know nothing of Pekin, save that a friend of mine sends that scent to me as a yearly Christmas present.

  • I know nothing," said Mrs. Jasher, releasing his arm and throwing herself on the couch.

  • I can say nothing, because I know nothing," he said sharply.

  • And the scrolls of papyrus buried with the mummy of Tahoser may contain an account of Ethiopian civilization, about which we know nothing.

  • I know nothing at all about it, monseigneur.

  • Hope is out of London; Westwood I have not seen, so about my insects I know nothing.

  • All my affairs, indeed, are most prosperous; I find there are plenty who will undertake the description of whole tribes of animals, of which I know nothing.

  • You might have been wretched if you had found you couldn't stand up to your father, but I gather, though I know nothing directly, that you did.

  • I really didn't come to Munich to talk politics, of which I know nothing whatever.

  • I know nothing of you, not who you are, or what you are, or what your flag is.

  • I said before of the Gods, that of the truth about them we know nothing, and do but entertain human notions of them.

  • Still he preserves his 'know nothing' disguise, and himself declares his first notions about names to be reckless and ridiculous.

  • Of the names of the ideas, he would have said, as he says of the names of the Gods, that we know nothing.

  • When I had done with the free air and the view, I had to go down into the valley and look after the hops (which I know nothing about), and to be equally solicitous as to the cherry orchards.

  • The master was supposed among us to know nothing, and one of the ushers was supposed to know everything.

  • I know nothing about it, except that I pay him his small fee, and pocket the ticket he gives me, and sit upon a counter, involved in the general distraction.

  • I know nothing of London City methods--but isn't ten thousand pounds a gratuity on a rather large scale?

  • I know nothing of him--and you know so much!

  • The "press" seemed to know nothing at all.

  • I cannot give an opinion; I know nothing of them, except from a distance.

  • They say that in consumption the tubercles sometimes occur in the brain; it's a pity I know nothing of medicine.

  • I know nothing about it," Sonia articulated faintly at last.

  • I know nothing about it," she cried with a heartrending wail, and she ran to Katerina Ivanovna, who clasped her tightly in her arms, as though she would shelter her from all the world.

  • He keeps repeating his old story about the murder: 'I know nothing of it, never heard of it till the day before yesterday.

  • I know nothing at this moment but the bare fact that Maddalena Lomi won the prize.

  • I know nothing of any crime or bloodshed here--I must have been frightened out of my wits to talk in that way!

  • Then, I declare, I know nothing at all about the matter.

  • I know nothing of your furlongs, but I am sure it is a very long wood, and that we have been winding in and out ever since we came into it; and therefore, when I say that we have walked a mile in it, I must speak within compass.

  • I know nothing of the Miss Owens," said Fanny calmly.

  • I know nothing about it, but Fanny must teach me.

  • They were required to know nothing of the subject until the evidence was laid before them for their immediate decision.

  • I know nothing of General Buell's intended operations, never having received any information in regard to the general plan of campaign.

  • I cannot, by giving my consent to a publication of whose details I know nothing, assume the responsibility of whatever you may write.

  • If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and reassert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

  • I think that my father and mother were people who strolled along the highways; I know nothing different.

  • I know nothing of Marius' plan of travel.

  • She would not have understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in a matter in which I have no power and of which I know nothing?

  • I know nothing of such matters, deuce take it!

  • It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing.

  • I know nothing of business or what people are pleased to term 'commercial morality.

  • I am quoting your husband now; I know nothing of business.

  • I know nothing of business--and I'm not likely to get new rooms until I see the Millionaire and the Iron King.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "know 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:
    chronological table; give their; know also; know enough; know him; know how; know much; know myself; know none; know she; know well; know what; know what you mean; know when; know whom; knowing look; known from; known passage; known story; known through; known under the name; known voice; known weight; known work; seeing this; slave time