Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use naught in a sentence

12 example sentences · pronoun, noun

Naught means nothing. Example: “Naught can come of this, you mark my words.”

Examples of naught by meaning

pronounNothing.

  • Naught can come of this, you mark my words.
  • Love! for all else is naught.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 215
  • But that was naught to my old mate, he didn't mind at all.1994, Mike Hayes, Tell Us Anothree! More yarns from all around Australia, Sydney: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, published 2001...

More sentences with naught

  • The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.From the entry penurious
  • Ye require naught more than a bath to cleanse thineselves, as do all creatures great and small.2015, S[ilvia] Acevedo, God Awful Loser, Milwaukee, W.I.: Three Points Publishing, →ISBN, page 335. From the entry thineselves
  • Naught seems so good nor so praisesome as the bright rose and the love of my man.2013, Murray Alfredson, The Gleaming Clouds, page 70. From the entry praisesome
  • I don't know about you but it does seem a little bit naught after she's gone to all that effort.2011, John Donoghue, Police, Crime & 999, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry cheeky
  • It's all sound and fury, signifying naught; but you've got a scooby that there's more to this than reaches the eye.2011, Charles Stross, Rule 34, →ISBN. From the entry scooby
  • And if they have no influence alltogether, then the claim of "Unbeka", that Mat profits from them is naught.1998 July 29, Markus Rasch, “Of Swords and Time”, in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (Usenet), retrieved 02 May 2022. From the entry contraproductive
  • In boredom each instant is naught but the insistence upon its own irremissibility its refractoriness, and its impropriety.1987, Pat Bigelow, “The Ontology of Boredom”, in Kierkegaard and the Problem of Writing (Kierkegaard and Postmodernism), Tallahassee…. From the entry untraversability
  • So when Gerald Owen heard the voice in the dark of foredawn, he had no idea that its instructions would come to naught.2014, Elizabeth Haydon, The Merchant Emperor: The Symphony of Ages. From the entry foredawn
  • Now all my grief has come to naught, my plans have all missped; All that I see is injury and misery widespread.1964, Juan Ruiz, Elisha Kent Kane, The Book of Good Love of the Archpriest of Hita, Jean Ruiz, page 143. From the entry misspeed

Meaning of naught

  1. pronoun Nothing.
  2. noun Nothingness.

Full definition of naught

Questions about naught in a sentence

How do you use naught in a sentence?
Naught is used as a pronoun and noun. For example: “Naught can come of this, you mark my words.”
What is a short sentence with naught?
“Love! for all else is naught.”
What does naught mean?
Naught means nothing.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: naught (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use naught in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/naught. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.