Sentence examples for a naught from inspiring English sources

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In other cases, a certain piece of punctuation is used to indicate a naught.

All the good work done through the Seventies and Eighties to boost the tiger population to 4,200 had come to a naught.

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But no one, as far as I know, has ever called himself an "aughts guy"; said earnestly, "That's so tens"; or suggested, "Let's have a naughts movie night!" Technology may be a significant driver of this chronological confusion, suggested Sara Marcus, author of "Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution," a history of the '90s feminist-punk scene, in an interview.

Then, there was the reign of CEO "Neutron" Jack Welch, who got great satisfaction from lopping off the jobs of hundreds of thousands of GE workers and breaking unions---all the while piling up his own great fortune and perks (all of which came to light when his wife rightfully took him to the cleaners in a public divorce when little Jack was off being a very naught boy).

Blank bride of the hour, occluded thought wed to waning like a sifting scent of future flowers, retrograde intent backwards blooming as a nascent naught staining minutes, rumorous, uncaught.

Here's one: "As a Catholic schooled atheist, I'm sorry for an awful naught".

In the final reckoning, the good and the bad come to an even naught, and the only thing left to recommend him is his money.

But finding a peacekeeping formula that both he and NATO, let alone the United States' Congress, could live with perhaps a commander from a neutral country—remains fiendishly difficult.Should this diplomacy come to naught, a ground war would by no means be certain to follow: the alliance remains divided even about the need to prepare for one.

Harmo Thorneycroft's Teucer, an over-life-sized archer wearing naught but a fig leaf, has a nice, clenched arse as he aims an invisible arrow at John Gibson's swooning marble Hylas, who is being abducted by a pair of water-nymphs across the way.

In another photo, Ms. Pulitzer, the woman who began an empire with naught but two empires, and a juice stand, stands in her first shop, where the clothing hangs from modified gilded bird cages.

With the Knicks' lineup decimated by injuries, Robinson scored a career-high 45 points — a supreme effort that went for naught in a 120-114 overtime loss to the Portland Trail Blazers.

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