Example sentences for: nary

How can you use “nary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There is nary a mention in this thick book of any of the leading "alternative" weeklies, which are often stuffed with material that one might expect to intrigue Rosen.

  • Some reviewers endorse the film as benign summer fare with "nary a car chase, explosion or loaded weapon" (Leah Rozen, People ). (To download the trailer, click here.)

  • But there was nary a ripple of bad news out of Intel when the announcement was made, and the sense of seamlessness that Grove and Barrett have projected has transformed the whole thing into an elegant passing of the torch ceremony.

  • In Gates' essay, those who would favor a stand of principle over the ties of blut and boden (or even business)--whistle-blowers, antiwar dissenters, anyone who says "I often place my duty to society above my duty to my company"--are characterized as "William Godwin types all, letting their own dear mothers burn to a crisp with nary a second thought while they grandly escort some silk-bedizened cleric to safety."

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