Example sentences for: nihilo

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

  • Fred Shapiro is perhaps the most skilled researcher in this area, and he's been able to find incredibly early examples of words and phrases: "politically correct" from the 18 th century, or "hopefully" in its disputed sense--"it is to be hoped"--from numerous very formal sources in the 1930s through the 1950s, showing that the usage didn't simply pop up ex nihilo in the 1960s.

  • Ex nihilo nihil fit.

  • The Judeo-Christian Bible's book of Genesis recounts a story of creation ex nihilo , or out of nothing.


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