Sentence examples for minus was from inspiring English sources

"The minus was they were drunk and unruly; the plus was we didn't ever have to buy an audience".

Nicky Minus was discouraged by a teacher in school, and urged the audience not to put too much pressure on themselves.

On the way to exploiting the old recordings, though, someone somewhere in the Motown/UMG corporate structure evidently felt that "minus" was too reminiscent of subtraction, absence, and lessening.

A compromise was reached in 1156, when, in return for the surrender of Henry Jasomirgott's claim to Bavaria, Austria was raised to the status of a duchy, and, in addition, the ducal house of Austria (by the terms of the Privilegium Minus) was granted a number of special privileges.

Cyclaneusma minus was the only recognised pathogen recovered from needles when isolations were made using a general fungal growth medium.

There is however a consequence of our study which is that we have a selection of five long-shafted hooks of cellulose from which to choose and the most frequent and strongest, namely A. minus was chosen, as per George de Mestral and his Velcro.

Plus Minus is out now on Harmonia Mundi.

The only minus is its lack of a sitting room.

D-minus was the grade for West Virginia and central Florida, including Orlando.

The colleges' grade for racial hiring, C-minus, was worse than the B given Major League Baseball, the latter suggesting they're all being graded on the proverbial curve.

(In the Asian-American community I grew up in, an A-minus was a badge of shame and the decision to become an English major was greeted with wailing).