Sentence examples for nothin but a from inspiring English sources

"Chicken ain't nothin' but a bird," Johnson chirped, "and this ain't nothin' but a football game".

"It ain't nothin but a little bitty old thing," my mother kept saying.

I told her it ain't nothin but a little bitty old thing.

We were a long way from "You ain't nothin' but a hound dog".

Then: "Did you come out to party?" And: "It ain't nothin' but a party!

All that cultural sedition is masked as nothin' but a party.

"Now, our sweet Yvonny, she ain't nothin but an old girl".

If by activist you mean sittin' on my ass all day long not doing nothin' but collecting a paycheck.

That's clearly a limitation of my own musical abilities, though, as dudes like the one in this video are managing to make entire songs with nothin' but the iPad, a handful of apps, and their own golden pipes.

"From Compton to Congress, it's set trippin' all around / Ain't nothin' new but a flow of new Demo-Crips and Re-Blood-icans / Red state versus blue state, which one you governing?" That depth and love of language is one reason why novelist Michael Chabon recently annotated "The Blacker the Berry," the second track to arrive from the new record, at the Genius.com annotation site.

He explains how to use tradtional openings ("When I lost my baby"), colorful expressions, humorous twists, He gives examples of a song with a message and a I-ain't-nothin'-but-a-man song, which is a good one to write in dry spells.