What is "for nothing"

Usage examples of "for nothing".

Im fond of him too, you know and if I had a share in him, I could come and look after him for nothing if anything went wrong, couldnt I?

If we put up with his screaming for the last two hours for nothing, I'm going to turn in my nursing license.

All for nothing, all because of some erratic, harmless, usually useless emotion-reading ability he possessed.

Then came a look, a slow dawning expression that flitted across her features, and he saw with sick certainty that it hadn't worked, he'd been mean to her for nothing, she wasn't going to be distracted from the issue.

If the woman who would inspire that song had already walked into and out of his life, I was drinking bad beer for nothing.

Lewis cancelled all his other work and used the lab for nothing but trying to puzzle out the gadgets that we got.

And then we found out that it was all for nothing, that with one mighty heave of its shoulders this world was going to cast us off, and we got scared and packed up and went away.

Not in some warren underneath a desert world that's fit for nothing but a quarry for tombstones.

That's what comes of getting so wrapped up in something you have time for nothing else.

I knew from experience that even if the coordinator told them I had to be somewhere else, the lawyer would arrive late or would be called away and I'd be stuck waiting for nothing.