MINUS in a Sentence

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17 example sentences for MINUS, such as:

1. The statue survived through minus a leg.
2. The group found itself minus a bass player.
3. The temperature went down to minus ten last night.
4. With the chill factor, it's nearly minus forty here.
5. Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness.

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 Meanings and Examples of MINUS
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minus
 a.  less; requiring to be subtracted; negative
Classic Sentence:
1  Chichikov perceived that in very truth his interlocutor was minus the articles named, as well as that one of Nozdrev's whiskers was less bushy in appearance than the other one.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
2  It is as well for you that you don't, since, otherwise, you would have found yourself minus both gun and cap.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
3  On a table stood a ragged chair, with, beside it, a clock minus a pendulum and covered all over with cobwebs.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
4  Uncle Henry was minus his umbrella and carpetbag now, and his fat stomach as well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  It is also very curiously displayed in the side fin, the bones of which almost exactly answer to the bones of the human hand, minus only the thumb.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
6  Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
7  Marius occupied in the Gorbeau house, for an annual sum of thirty francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only the most indispensable articles of furniture.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR
Example Sentence:
1  The payment will be refunded to you minus a small service charge.
2  It's two degrees outside, but with the wind-chill factor, it feels like minus five.
3  With the chill factor, it's nearly minus forty here.
4  The statue survived through minus a leg.
5  The group found itself minus a bass player.
6  Jean-Marie, a middle-aged charmer who prefers to work minus a white apron, could not recall a Rene in the family.
7  Okay, a scientist reports the measurement of the temperature of a new discovered planet to be minus point eight degrees.
8  One of the minus points of working at home is not having social contact with colleagues.
9  The temperature went down to minus ten last night.
10  The HedgersEdge packer margin index is a minus $31.60 per head, compared with minus $29.40 previously.