How to use no in a sentence
40 example sentences · determiner, adverb, particle
No means not any. Example: “There is no water left.”
Examples of no by meaning
determinerNot any.
- There is no water left.
- No hot dogs were sold yesterday.
- I've got no wife and no children either.
determinerHardly any.
- We'll be finished in no time at all.
- Fifty pounds for this is no money, really.
determinerNot any possibility or allowance of (something).
- No smoking. No parking.
- There's no stopping her once she gets going.
- No under-18s (allowed).
determinerNot (a); not properly, not really; not fully.
- My mother's no fool.
- Working nine to five every day is no life.
- No geese have blue beaks.
adverbUsed before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives.
- It is a less physical kind of torture, but no less gruesome.
- I can think of no more deserving cause.
- Look no further than one's nose.
adverbUsed idiomatically before certain other adjectives.
- This thing is no good.
- The teacher’s decision was no fair.
adverbNot.
- I just want to find out whether she's coming or no.
- Can ye no help me?
adverbNot, does not, do not, etc.
- Ug no like veggie.
More sentences with no
- We had no money so we had to live by barter.From the entry barter
- He was abandoned on the island with no one to help him.From the entry abandon
- No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.From the entry the
- I abstain from this vote, as I have no particular preference.From the entry abstain
- I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.From the entry google
- There is no point whatever in going on with this discussion.From the entry whatever
- I don't think he is a nice person, because he yells at people for no reason.From the entry because
- After years of debate over the best wine to serve at Thanksgiving, no real consensus has emerged.From the entry consensus
- Nobody answered the door when I knocked, so I had no choice but to leave.From the entry but
- Guests can be shuttled to and from the hotel for no extra cost.From the entry shuttle
- You best have some money, cause there ain't no checks or credit here.From the entry money
- If you don't clean your room, I'll have no choice but to ground you.From the entry ground
- Despite the damp wood, he had no trouble kindling a fire.From the entry kindling
- I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese.From the entry written
- Tectonic activity is part of nature, so there's no way to stop earthquakes.From the entry nature
- A: One cube or two? B: Oh, no sugar for me, thanks.From the entry cube
- There was no doubt in his mind that they would win.From the entry mind
- English only has a past tense and a non-past tense; it has no future tense.From the entry tense
- This lawyer has no qualms about saving people who are on the wrong side of the law.From the entry qualm
- I have no quarrel with her; it’s her partner whom I dislike.From the entry quarrel
- I'm afraid my father is no longer in his right mind.From the entry right
Meaning of no
- determiner Not any.
- determiner Hardly any.
- determiner Not any possibility or allowance of (something).
Questions about no in a sentence
- How do you use no in a sentence?
- No is used as a determiner, adverb and particle. For example: “There is no water left.”
- What is a short sentence with no?
- “No under-18s (allowed).”
- What does no mean?
- No means not any.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: no (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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