Sentence examples for naught of from inspiring English sources
The phrase "naught of" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is a less common way of saying "nothing of" or "none of". It can be used in formal or literary writing to convey a sense of emptiness or lack. Example: The abandoned house held naught of its former glory, the windows shattered and the gardens overgrown with weeds.
Much of the frenzy is for naught, of course.
She thinks that "it is naught of him to write that she shouldn't notice only beauty.
Gurner is a fast-rising real-estate millionaire, yet he was widely criticized for knowing naught of which he spoke.
It came to naught, of course, and by 1969, the Chalabi dynasty in Iraq had disappeared (his family compound now houses the Indian Embassy), its members dispersed throughout the Middle East, America and Europe.
Most of their work is for naught, of course, and there's something especially moving about those poets who, in the mind of the individual reader, have effectively created only one poem, or one phrase.
Equally post-essayistic is a diptych made up of "Top-Five Depressed Superheroes" (Ragman, Deadman and others I knew naught of) and a Playboy sketch about Lethem's own fabrication, the Epiphany, whose archenemy is named Le Petit Mort and whose acolytes are Eureka!, Tour de Force and Non Sequitur.
It is not, he said, "the number of naughts on the end of a balance sheet".
Then, we investigated whether the addition of the gamma naught image of the previous year, in the form of mosaic data from 2009, would improve the mapping result.
Leopold VI's efforts to emancipate Austria ecclesiastically by creating a separate Austrian bishopric in Vienna came to naught because of the opposition of the church in Passau and also in Salzburg; nor did his son Frederick II succeed in the same matter.
Although reconstruction of the Temple was authorized by the emperor Julian (reigned 361 363), it came to naught because of a disastrous fire on the sacred site and the emperor's subsequent death.
A potential identity for Shontelle almost rises up in "Plastic People," about political conformity, but it's for naught: redolent of Des'ree's "You Gotta Be," the song is already drowning in sonic conformity.
