Sentence examples for will amount to nothing from inspiring English sources

Your work will amount to nothing.

Think your years slaving away at a corporate job will amount to nothing but a partially adequate 401 k)?

He's burning with ambition and the fear that his life's work will amount to nothing, and thinks gaining entry will solve his problems.

"At the end of the day, the mayor's campaign against Bob Levy will amount to nothing but background noise," Mr. Hickey said.

On a client with a hospitalized horse: "I know instinctively that the clinic bill will amount to 10 grand, and the racehorse, should he survive, will amount to nothing".

Baroness Jay, the Labour leader in the Lords, is quietly confident that Lord Strathclyde's threats will amount to nothing tonight, because minister believe that the Tories will "sit on their hands" and abstain.

Michael Beck said, "One time, the young Freud had an accident in his parents' bedroom and his father said, 'You'll amount to nothing!' Another time, the mother took him to see a Gypsy.

My earliest memory was sitting under the porch on a hot day and hearing my aunt say you'll amount to nothing," she recalled.

e.g. saying that you'll amount to nothing, saying that they wish you were never born, etc. Ignoring you and refusing to associate and socialize with you.

You plant that seed so carefully, watching it day in and day out, worrying that it'll amount to nothing and maybe even smothering it in the process.

Or they just made a deal that will amount to absolutely nothing and quickly will be forgotten.