Example sentences for: nary

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

  • It has weathered moderate earthquakes with nary a crack or untoward ripple, and looks as fit for the eventual big one as it did 20 years ago.

  • 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."

  • 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.)

  • (There is nary a female cop to be found.)


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