Sentence examples for is naught from inspiring English sources
noun
(now rare or archaic in US, Canada) Zero.
- Yet another naught on the scoreboard for the home team.
She thinks that "it is naught of him to write that she shouldn't notice only beauty.
By and large, there is naught for our comfort in "The Atlantic Sound".
A satirical poem offered: "It clearly is naught but a lunatic line".
I wholeheartedly agree with her in theory, but it's a bit weird with custard, and apple pie is naught without a drop of Bird's.
"One who previously engaged in jihad knows that it is naught but violence, crudeness, terrorism, [deterrence] and massacring," Naji writes, as translated by McCants.
Too much sex was thought to weaken men: a late-15th-century poem mocks an otherwise respectable but overly sexually active burgess who has "wasted and spent" his "substance" until there is "naught left but empty skin and bone".
Poor Richard was naught but pretense.
If the president appoints another nominee like David Souter, all of that will be naught".
(Ophelia to Hamlet: "You are naught, you are naught". Hamlet to himself: "How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world!") Is "Hamlet," they wonder, "a nihilist drama"?
But after midwinter it will be naught but deer-stalking/basketball, which I find a bit of a trial.
