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.'
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of NAUGHT
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
3  In behalf of the dignity of whaling, I would fain advance naught but substantiated facts.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25. Postscript.
4  Sometimes I think there's naught beyond.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
6  For blacks, the year's calendar should show naught but three hundred and sixty-five Fourth of Julys and New Year's Days.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
7  I saw no living thing within; naught was there but bones.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides.
8  But all their pains seemed naught.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
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.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In RAPUNZEL
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.
12  I felt sure that Ben and 'Tildy would come to naught from such a home.'
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
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.