NAUGHT in a Sentence
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15 example sentences for NAUGHT, such as:
1. His crime has gained him naught.
2. But all their pains seemed naught.
3. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond.
4. Bonds do not exist for those to whom naught is dear or not dear.
5. I felt sure that Ben and 'Tildy would come to naught from such a home.'
2. But all their pains seemed naught.
3. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond.
4. Bonds do not exist for those to whom naught is dear or not dear.
5. I felt sure that Ben and 'Tildy would come to naught from such a home.'
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Meanings and Examples of NAUGHT
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naught
n. complete failure
n. a quantity of no importance
Classic Sentence:
1 Naturally, Pork and Dilcey and Mammy gave vent to loud guffaws at hearing the detractor of their beloved Tara set at naught.
2 Representing nothing on God's earth now And naught in the waters below it-- As the pledge of nation that's passed away Keep it, dear friend, and show it.
3 In behalf of the dignity of whaling, I would fain advance naught but substantiated facts.
4 Sometimes I think there's naught beyond.
5 But how can I hope to explain myself here; and yet, in some dim, random way, explain myself I must, else all these chapters might be naught.
6 For blacks, the year's calendar should show naught but three hundred and sixty-five Fourth of Julys and New Year's Days.
7 I saw no living thing within; naught was there but bones.
8 But all their pains seemed naught.
9 In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught the calculations of reason, and to render those who should have remembered their manhood, the slaves of the basest passions.
10 Then he wandered quite blind about the forest, ate nothing but roots and berries, and did naught but lament and weep over the loss of his dearest wife.
11 I swear to you by him who died for us that naught shall induce me to breathe one syllable to my jailers; but I conjure you do not abandon me.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
Context Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
12 I felt sure that Ben and 'Tildy would come to naught from such a home.'
Example Sentence:
1 Bonds do not exist for those to whom naught is dear or not dear.
2 His crime has gained him naught.
3 "Was there any lady of the house?" "Nay, there was naught but her, and she was housekeeper;" and of her, reader, I could not bear to ask the relief for want of which I was sinking; I could not yet beg; and again I crawled away.