What is "nonevent"

Usage examples of "nonevent".

From here the sun was a medium small spot half a billion miles away and sunrise was a nonevent, but to watch the huge disc of Saturn sailing up over the horizon, preceded by its delicate multicolored rings, was a truly awesome sight.

To top it all off, the whole nonevent was taking place less than two thousand meters away, a distance they could cover in seconds.

As first kisses went, it was kind of a nonevent, but no noses ended up out of alignment, no teeth got cracked, and Kris seemed, if not enthusiastic, at least receptive.

Now every absence is a nonevent, a subtraction, an adventure I will hear about when my adventurer materializes at my feet, bleeding or whistling, smiling or shaking.

Aside from the goings-on in the Cities, nothing much of consequence happened in the state as a rule, but everyone insisted on having the nonevents relayed to them at the end of the day.

Dreams were supposed to be fantasies and nonsensical jumbles of nonevents, but he was convinced his flying dream had been a premonition that he would find the spot where Mara had hidden her journal.

Preproduction physical exams are routine nonevents, perfunctory once-overs by doctors working for studio insurance carriers.

Yet with the passage of time, they become less and less extraordinary and soon appear to be nothing more than the natural schemeless flow of nonevents.