Find the word definition

Wiktionary
nary a

det. (context idiomatic English) Not any; no.

Usage examples of "nary a".

Save Aarundel, his family, and Shijef, I'd nary a friend in the legfslatorium or the galleries above it.

The black spared their cascading fall nary a glance, focusing his eyes instead on the source of the smoke.

Puzzled, Grimm searched the inner and outer wards, whistling repeatedly, but he heard nary a nicker, no thunder of hooves.

This was also the year that Pam began vanishing from magazines, until she finally went completely AWOL at year's end, nary a lipstick-smudged postcard to any of us.

All I can 'vise you is, don't squeeze nary a one off till you got a clear, justified target.

But, when we got to the house, won't nary a sign of either one of 'em, 'cept just a little bit of blood just inside the door and a little more on the steps going down to the basement, was all.

His power should have launched the entire walltoward the clouds, but there was nary a budge.

I came to with a head like a butter churn and nary a kerchief to tie around me.