Sentence examples for minus meaning from inspiring English sources

He marked her application "admit minus" meaning he wanted it discussed by the committee.

"Well, you had Klan plus and you had Klan minus," he told her. "We were Klan minus," meaning, more or less, that he and his pals sympathized but weren't part of the violence and terrorism of the time.

Viktor Frankl said despair is suffering minus meaning.

After Wednesday night's debate in Simi Valley, I gave Rick Perry a B-minus, meaning an average performance.

During Wednesday night's blue-white scrimmage, in which the blue team defeated Lundmark's white team, 5-2, Lundmark had a plus-minus rating of minus-five, meaning he was on the ice for all of the blue team's goals.

The Bobcats' S.R.S. this season, through Thursday, was minus 13.67, meaning that Charlotte was 13.67 points per game worse than an average team.

In the casinos, Mayweather was listed at minus two hundred, meaning that bettors would need to lay two hundred dollars on him in order to win a hundred.

The Commerce Department reported that the savings rate fell to minus 0.5percentt, meaning that Americans not only spent all of their after-tax income last year but had to dip into previous savings or increase borrowing.

In the September report, the main confidence index of managers at large companies rose four points to a reading of minus 14, meaning that pessimists now outnumber optimists by 14 percentage points.

Even with the surgery, and even maintaining a weight that is borderline obese (at least according to the government definition; Janet weighs 180 pounds, plus or minus 15, meaning her body-mass index hovers around the magic number of 30), she can never enjoy food with complete and carefree abandon.

NVG, in fact, boasts a beta rating of minus 0.07, meaning it has a slight tendency to move in the opposite direction of the S&P 500.