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How to use nought in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Nought means a thing or person of no worth or value; nil. Example: “The Bank of England's anti-inflation efforts will come to nought if the U.S. Federal Reserve refuse to join in the plan.”

Examples of nought by meaning

verbTo abase, to set at nought.

  • The nought which is you has devoured the style and been sustained for a while as a non-you until the style is emptied out by the noughting self.1983, Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, page 25
  • Your usefulness is zero, your worth zero, and as zero you deserve to be treated as nothing, and in the extreme, noughted.2001, William Desmond, Ethics and the Between, page 507
  • What is the use of noughting yourself?2003, Wu Wei Wei, The Tenth Man: The Great Joke (which Made Lazarus Laugh), →ISBN, page 81

More sentences with nought

  • The Bank of England's anti-inflation efforts will come to nought if the U.S. Federal Reserve refuse to join in the plan.From the entry come to nought
  • Our efforts were all for nought.From the entry all for nought
  • It was a grand statement of optimism that would sadly come to nought.2024 May 15, Greg Morse, “West Coast electric... all the way”, in RAIL, number 1009, page 41. From the entry come to nought
  • It's nought but a pair of names, stamped on me by two people who never met.2009, Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 262. From the entry violet
  • One more error and all the good work she had done on Friday would be for nought.2004 August 22, Will Buckley, The Observer. From the entry and
  • And when they eat, they move the overjaw and nought the nether jaw, and they have no tongue.1926, Arthur Percival Newton, Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages, page 161. From the entry overjaw
  • And smalled till she was nought at all.1917, Thomas Hardy, The Clock of the Years. From the entry small
  • Rattray remarks on the fine spirit of the men, even when faced with the disappointment of seeing their efforts brought to nought by subsequent storms.1941 April, “Notes and News: Railwaymen and Snow”, in Railway Magazine, page 178. From the entry bring to nought
  • Before we can explore computer play at chess, let's start with a much simpler game: the game of tic-tac-toe (also called noughts and crosses, Xs and Os, or exy-ozys).2016, James Hendler, Alice M. Mulvehill, “The Games We Play”, in Social Machines: The Coming Collision of Artificial Intelligence, Social…. From the entry X's and O's

Meaning of nought

  1. noun A thing or person of no worth or value; nil.
  2. noun Not any quantity of number; zero; the score of no points in a game.
  3. noun The figure or character representing, or having the shape of, zero.

Full definition of nought

Questions about nought in a sentence

How do you use nought in a sentence?
Nought is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “The Bank of England's anti-inflation efforts will come to nought if the U.S. Federal Reserve refuse to join in the plan.”
What is a short sentence with nought?
“Our efforts were all for nought.”
What does nought mean?
Nought means a thing or person of no worth or value; nil.

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