nought
Example Sentences
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Cocoa Fowler runs Food for Nought, which delivers the food parcels to those who need them.
From BBC • Jan. 19, 2022
Nought did the wind upon the waves keep her from her course as she rode the billows.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 2, 2014
“Wurr! Thankee kindly. Nought Ioik vedgible soop to keep’n loif in uz moles.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Her hair grew forth as lovely as before; Upon her cheeks her former beauties spread; But nothing could her perish’d sight restore: Nought heals the heart that mourns a brother dead.
From Servian Popular Poetry by Bowring, John
Nought, nawt, n. not anything: nothing.—adv. in no degree.—Set at nought, to despise.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
