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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "nil" in a sentence

    nil example sentences

    nil


    1. by one goal to nil with just a two minutes left on the never tick of the clock


    2. One balmy spring Saturday afternoon, with his team leading by five goals to nil, Terry's manager decided to give him a well earned rest twenty minutes before the end of the match


    3. risk of infection is nil


    4. The response of Christians in western Europe to this loss, real and imagined (few in western Europe could afford the time and money necessary for the pilgrimage, so the real impact on the average person was nil), was deep and emotional


    5. “Well I can't help it, the Howards are beating us four too nil in the Grandchildren


    6. me, the chances of your surviving were almost nil


    7. His activities would be nil, null and void


    8. She had little or no money on arriving and the prospect of getting a job in Tralee was nil


    9. Their social life was nil as everything they had was being poured into the project


    10. Unless you’re born and bred there your chances of survival are virtually nil, and even the indigenous can die of disease or be killed at any time by any number of eventualities,’ and Siri laughed again at Jim’s misunderstanding

    11. composed a poem while on a cruise ship touring the Nil


    12. With them gone, his hopes of destroying the industrial capacity of this society and thus paralyze the Time Patrol were down to nearly nil


    13. nil — and I had not been able to eat solid foods for months


    14. Even when the Witches completed their flanking maneuver and fell from behind on the unsuspecting Japanese fighters, their radio chatter was kept nearly to nil, with only Ingrid Dows giving terse orders after each attack pass to direct the next attack


    15. � She had no illusions about her own pain tolerance threshold: it was next to nil


    16. A nil result so far, but his team had done well with graphic evidence of a despicable crime that told its own story and gradually a few pieces of the puzzle dropped into place


    17. Despite the very advanced technology, Saddlebrook would have to be accelerated from his current speed, which was nil, to velocities in excess of ultra-lightspeed, travel a distance of 6


    18. "The possibility of that happening is almost nil," he said


    19. "The odds are so great that they are for all scientific purposes, nil


    20. The felt recoil was nearly nil, allowing firing in zero gravity conditions without the shooter ending spinning wildly after each shot

    21. However, the chances that a girl raised among pirates could speak seven languages, play the piano like a virtuoso and sing the way she just did were about nil, her talents denoting instead the education of a true aristocrat


    22. “Final score - three : nil” Our informant had wandered over and resumed his self-appointed commentary duties


    23. In the beginning the mind may run 50 times, two years of practice will reduce the number to 20; another three years of continued and persistent practice will reduce the number to nil


    24. “The odds of being hit with a malpractice suit are almost next to nil


    25. Germany would have been nil


    26. Sadly, with each passing year after the end of the war, it became more and more difficult to find men willing to fight in the Order and within two generations the numbers had dwindled to near nil


    27. The light of God is nil and the face as ugly as the devil


    28. We worry because trust in ourselves is nil


    29. Boredom has mind doing unconventional conduct, met by nil


    30. But, in that we know that wealth does not guarantee happiness in all aspects of bodymind, fewer still in heart, and nil in spirit, we must inquire as to that missing piece, is it personal or social and what is the cause of its absence? Happiness is an accompaniment to communion – it is empty when the communion is with the toys, the objects, the machines that we accumulate as mementos of where we 445

    31. create life has failed, so by mere chemical "chance" creating life is nil


    32. He reduces the chance to nil that surfing eyes will breeze over that important reference


    33. “I think your options are nil at this point


    34. The conversation was nil in their quick pace to where the object had landed


    35. AT the higher end, they come with almost nil


    36. Her prospects of marriage were close to nil in a vanishing Italian community where the young men were the first to depart


    37. The streetlights and those of the Kasr El Nil Bridge gave it a festive air and oscillated on the dark mass of water in an unending movement


    38. We crossed Kasr El Nil Bridge and took a right for a few hundred meters along the Nile and then a left into Garden City


    39. We found our car, crossed the Kasr El Nil Bridge and headed for the club


    40. One nil in extra time

    41. I’d tried to roll the window down as the car had steamed up and we could barely see where we were going but it was jammed and wiping the condensation from the inside had nil effect


    42. Nil Pavlitch, I say, what was the name of that gentleman who shot himself?"


    43. Evaporation, which is nil in the High Arctic regions and very active in equatorial zones, brings about a constant interchange of tropical and polar waters


    44. The latter, faithful to the principle of Horace, nil admirari, had contented himself with showing his knowledge by declaring in what lake the best lampreys were caught


    45. And the odds were twenty to nil there was really no secret about it at all


    46. He would indeed have been obliged to admit that in the eastern—much the larger— part of Russia rent was as yet nil, that for nine-tenths of the eighty millions of the Russian peasants wages took the form simply of food provided for themselves, and that capital does not so far exist except in the form of the most primitive tools


    47. Why did I buy this stock? Arcontech has a reasonable sales profile, it is in the financial exchange technology business and is basically valued at nil, £2m on £1


    48. Hence there are no assets available for the common stock, and its book value is nil


    49. But the economics that were finally obvious to me were also obvious to others, and interest was nil


    50. Nil satis nisi optimum, interrupted my father’s voice, booming inside my head








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    Synonyms for "nil"

    aught cipher cypher goose egg nada naught nil nix nothing null zero zilch zip zippo

    "nil" definitions

    a quantity of no importance