Sentence examples for close to nowhere from inspiring English sources

He came from close to nowhere to win the Derby.

Joan Crawford came out of nowhere, or as close to nowhere as is consistent with actually having a birthplace and a past.

Tucked away in a desert draw beneath the tawny expanse of the Columbia Plateau, Pendleton is as close to nowhere as it is far from somewhere.

Well, not exactly nowhere, but pretty close to nowhere.

"The crash zone is as close to nowhere as it's possible to be, but it's closer to Australia than anywhere else," Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday.

"I was close to having nowhere to go," he recalled.

Relating lung cancer risk to B[ a]P exposures, with continuous exposure, the coefficient was again close to zero, and nowhere near statistically significant.

But they're nowhere close to this.

We are nowhere close to that.

We're nowhere close to that situation".

We are nowhere close to it".