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How to use nix in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun, verb, interjection

Nix means nothing. Example: “Nix the last order – the customer walked out.”

Examples of nix by meaning

nounNothing.

  • Until then, nix!1920, Harold MacGrath, chapter 26, in The Drums of Jeopardy

verbTo make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.

  • Nix the last order – the customer walked out.
  • The move came less than six months after Jobs had nixed the spin-off of Newton Inc. as an independent company and brought it back inside Apple (see “The Fallen Apple,” page 143).1999, Owen W. Linzmayer, Apple Confidential, San Francisco: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 242
  • Burns has ordered thrown into the mix as a form of culinary Russian Roulette, only to learn from Smithers that the plant’s lawyers ultimately nixed the poisoned donut plan because “they consider it murder.”2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired...

interjectionNo! Not at all!

  • An inventor, eh?" "Nix!1916 January, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 472, column 2

More sentences with nix

  • A rebounding economy doesn't nix the need for value options on menu boards.2017 December 6, USA Today, “Despite Steady Economy, $1 Menus Make Comeback”, in USA Today. From the entry menu board
  • Nix that feeling by regularly scheduling a date night once or twice a week.2014 February 11, Christina Bonnington, “Tech Hacks to Stay Connected to Your Long-Distance Love”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé…. From the entry hop on
  • I thought it resembled me more than Hartwick but mox nix—it was ours.2011, Ritch Gaiti, Tweet: One Guy Can't Change the World—Good Thing that Glebe Didn't Know That, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry mox nix
  • Nix, Her Majesty and I are doing all that can be done.2011, Karen Miller, The Innocent Mage. From the entry fretsome
  • IBM's ThinkPad nixed the trackball entirely, opting for a minijoystick in the middle of its keyboard.1993, U.S. News and World Report, volume 115, numbers 1-9. From the entry minijoystick
  • I didn’t pay Mr Carlyle to ask me questions; I can get enough of that for nixes.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados: The Knight’s Cross Signal Problem. From the entry nixes
  • But today nothing: nix, zilch, sweet zip dangdoodley zerosville Idaho.2010, Stephen Fry, Paperweight, page 201. From the entry zerosville
  • Mox nix to me if you cover for him.2006, William P. Singley, Bragg, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry mox nix
  • A quick search behind you, above you and below you reveals nix, not even an old postage stamp.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 142. From the entry nooo
  • The huge trees of the alluvial Amazonian plain gave place to the Phœnix and coco palms, growing in scattered clumps, with thick brushwood between.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry phoenix palm

Meaning of nix

  1. noun Nothing.
  2. verb To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.
  3. verb To destroy or eradicate.

Full definition of nix

Questions about nix in a sentence

How do you use nix in a sentence?
Nix is used as a noun, verb and interjection. For example: “Nix the last order – the customer walked out.”
What is a short sentence with nix?
“Until then, nix!”
What does nix mean?
Nix means nothing.

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