Sentence examples for was naught from inspiring English sources
noun
(now rare or archaic in US, Canada) Zero.
- Yet another naught on the scoreboard for the home team.
Poor Richard was naught but pretense.
Touchstone: Of a certain knight that swore 'by his honour' they were good pancakes, and swore 'by his honour' that mustard was naught.
If the president appoints another nominee like David Souter, all of that will be naught".
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".
(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"?
She thinks that "it is naught of him to write that she shouldn't notice only beauty.
But after midwinter it will be naught but deer-stalking/basketball, which I find a bit of a trial.
Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
The firm's two-story booth included a display of iMacs running iTunes, but the promised phones were naught.
