NOUGHT in a Sentence

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He now crept on hands and feet through a butcher's shop; at least on every side, and above and below, there was nought but flesh.

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 Meanings and Examples of NOUGHT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
nought
 n.  nonexistence; nothingness; zero
Classic Sentence:
1  My master," replied Gurth, "will take nought from the Templar save his life's-blood.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  But come, fill a flagon, for it will crave some time to tune the harp; and nought pitches the voice and sharpens the ear like a cup of wine.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  Men say thou dost love wine, and a lady's smile, better than beseems thy Order, Sir Priest; but with that I have nought to do.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  He now crept on hands and feet through a butcher's shop; at least on every side, and above and below, there was nought but flesh.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
5  Our bird when he found the cage open would not fly, so all our subtle arrangements were for nought.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  'Tis nought but a vale of woe.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
7  Appius rejoined, that the people should not set at nought that right of appeal which they themselves had insisted on with so much zeal.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLV.
Example Sentence:
1  Houses are graded from nought to ten for energy efficiency.
2  Sales rose by nought point four per cent last month.
3  Merry is he that hath nought to lose.
4  Put one nought after a seven to make seventy.