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Example sentences for "nothing could"

  • I replied that, being in her company, nothing could make me stir.

  • Nothing could be more amusing than the expression on Camille's face.

  • Well, if it comes to that, the slightest movement would have rendered the whole process null and void; but as it was she stood in the proper position as quiet as a lamb; nothing could be easier.

  • Nothing could be so gratifying to me as to hear your opinion of it," was his answer; "but I fear there would be some disappointment: you would not find it equal to your present ideas.

  • Nothing could be more impossible than to answer such a question, though nothing could be more agreeable than to have it asked.

  • Nothing could be more smiling and cheerful than the appearance of the country around.

  • Nothing could be more acceptable to me than the sweet presence of last evening, for all the remaining evenings of my existence; but these are not fit surroundings for a young lady.

  • It still seems as if a false note were not within his power to-night, and as if nothing could hurry or retard him.

  • Nothing could be done without a smart match being played out.

  • Nothing could be heard but the murmuring of the wind through the half-opened door.

  • Nothing could be more gracious than she was to Bertie.

  • Nothing could be easier than the old man's passage from this world to the next.

  • Nothing could be more prudent, if only it were practicable.

  • Nothing could be more polite than the archbishop; and Mrs Archbishop had been equally charming.

  • Nothing could perhaps, be more unnaturally horrid than the selfish baseness of these villains; for there is nothing more loathsome than the valor of avarice.

  • As nothing is more flattering to the pride and the hopes of man than the belief in a future state, so nothing could be more vague and confused than the notions of the heathen sages upon that mystic subject.

  • Nothing could be found within but a few heaps of leaves.

  • Nothing could be more primitive, nothing could be less comfortable; but, on the other hand, should any accident happen on the way, nothing could be more easily repaired.

  • Nothing could be more romantic than this picture, in delineating which the most skillful artist would have exhausted all the colors of his palette.

  • In truth, nothing could be more complete than Antonina's childish unconsciousness of the feelings with which Vetranio regarded her.

  • Nothing could be more thoroughly suggestive of the undiminished universality of the heat than the view, in every direction, from the position they then occupied.

  • Nothing could be more pitiably effeminate than the appearance of this young man.

  • At the time when the sun set, nothing could be more picturesque than the distant view of this joyous scene.

  • Nothing could be more immense than the difference, more wild than the incongruity between them.

  • Nothing could be seen but his calm, grave, but strangely sad face.

  • Nothing could be more frugal than this repast.

  • Nothing could be more melancholy than to see her sport about the room, and, so to speak, flit with the movements of a bird which is frightened by the daylight, or which has broken its wing.

  • Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the good.

  • Nothing could be more unexpected, more surprising, and, let us admit it, more disagreeable to him.

  • Nothing could be found either in the bed or in the room; the man had not been upstairs.

  • Nothing could be more just than her saying about Balzac that he was such a logician that he invented things more truthful than the truth itself.

  • Nothing could assuage my grief; for nothing now could arouse my anger.

  • She carried her gossiping to such an extreme that nothing could be kept private--nothing could be done or said on earth but every body in perdition knew all about it before the sun went down.

  • Nothing could be more absolutely certain than that we are enjoying ourselves.

  • Rationally speaking, my dear sir, nothing could be more accurate than your inferences; and yet we must forgo the theory of the strange inversion which you suggest.

  • Nothing could be more false, as the merest reference to anatomy will show.

  • Nothing could be more striking than the result of this experiment, made in the first year of my home rearing.

  • Nothing could be prettier than the work of the last-named, who goes to the plants for her material and fashions a delicate sheet in which she cuts a graceful arch.

  • It was about eight o'clock; the sun was rising in the east; nothing could be noticed to indicate that any abnormal incident had either transpired or been expected by the inhabitants.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nothing could" 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:
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