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Example sentences for "nothing remains"

  • Of the one-time flourishing village, nothing remains.

  • Of the latter, nothing remains but a few iron crosses in the surrounding cemetery (photo below).

  • Nothing remains of them now, except a few walls, beams and fragments of the timber frameworks of the battered farm-houses.

  • You have rejected my well-meaning solicitude for your safety; nothing remains for me now but to surrender you and your troops to the tender mercies of our infuriated people.

  • Nothing remains to me but contempt, scorn, and dreadful loneliness!

  • But their faces were anxious and irresolute, and they whispered to each other: "If our captain should fall, nothing remains for us but to surrender.

  • After a prolonged wait and as conditions show no improvement, nothing remains but to leave the island.

  • Nothing remains but to go back to the school for some lunch.

  • It is now so rough that the boatswain thinks we could not land, and so nothing remains but to turn back to the mother boat.

  • Today, in 1890, nothing remains of it but its fragments; for twenty years it has ceased to work and its parts, even, are utterly useless.

  • VI-20] Nothing remains to be said of the corridors of the main building, save that the interior like the exterior surface of the walls bears traces of red paint over the coating of plaster in certain sheltered portions.

  • Nothing remains to be said respecting the general plan and construction of the Nunnery, or of the interior of the apartments which compose it: and I now come to the exterior walls.

  • Nothing remains to justify its fame among the ancient Romans and the Neapolitans of Boccaccio's and Pontano's age.

  • Nothing remains of the original decorations except one carved chimney-piece, an emblazoned shield, and a frescoed portrait of the founder.

  • If this explanation be untenable, nothing remains but to conclude that one of the writers copied from the other; and this, accordingly, has been the general opinion of theologians.

  • Here is a house: nothing remains of it but the lower walls, with nothing resting on them.

  • Nothing remains of it now but the mosaic pavement and the walls.

  • Nothing remains of it now but the body of the work in brick, some niches and traces of pilasters; but it is easy to replace the marbles and the statues which must have adorned this monument in rather poor taste.

  • If these transitory substances are only the act of the consciousness, when the act ceases, nothing remains of the substances, and therefore, there is nothing transmissible.

  • Nothing remains identical; but the consciousness of the identity always lasts.

  • Nothing remains of unrecorded ages That lie in the silent cemetery of time; Their wisdom may have shamed our wisest sages, Their glory may have been indeed sublime.

  • Ideas die and old religions perish, Our rarest pleasures and our keenest pains Are swept away with all we hate or cherish-- Nothing remains.

  • Nothing remains but to strike the attitude of the inconsolable lover.

  • Nothing remains to me but to avoid seeing her, and I never will see her again.

  • When one loses a battle, nothing remains but to plan an orderly retreat.

  • With a mind of this quality one goes far no matter in what direction; nothing remains but to choose one's path.

  • Nothing remains now of the former beauty of the temple.

  • Nothing remains now on the ancient site but a mere village.

  • Nothing remains now of the ancient capital but scattered piles of stones and two crumbling arcades, which, in the course of ages, have yielded to the force of the elements.

  • Now, at the first attack, nothing remains but to fly, or to beg for mercy.

  • Nothing remains of the château of Privesac but a heap of ruins.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nothing remains" 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:
    been thinking; could hardly; free speech; great ones; human frailty; looke vpon; modus vivendi; neither shall; nothing about; nothing came; nothing doing; nothing doubting; nothing further; nothing less; nothing loth; nothing much; nothing remarkable; nothing should; nothing that; nothing will; private practice; should fancy; social evolution; the slaughter; whose home; yearly tribute