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Sentence Examples If only all nature, all humanity were bathed in a rosy glowing radiancy and life for the future seemed naught but buoyancy and light. I would not like to think that the three years we have invested in one another will be for naught. There was a long silence in which we heard naught but the sanative hums of the friars and abbes. This time around, Daffy seems to realize he's losing the game, but all of his extra caution avails him naught. So all the things the Senate has been trying to do to try to backstop our national labs seem to have been for naught to date. It seems the front door was actually unlocked, so the girls felt bad about me falling for naught. You heard naught of it yesterday, but your poor father was barraged with questions from so many people! Successful conservation efforts in an area bordering another country can be reduced to naught if the neighbouring countries do not collaborate. When naught remained of the wound but the scar, the flow of light to the wound stopped, flowing about her hands, then vanished. There's naught to get my teeth into, naught to be telling me what they mean. I found that my benevolent intentions, not to mention my philanthropic soul were all for naught. First, think of a person who lives in disguise, who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Or maybe they forgot to put a extra naught on the end of the figure they offered. All of the divisions of Us, predicated upon the beast within, are brought to naught. Such recommendations will only bring to naught efforts to increase cooperation and decrease politicization among States. Yet all will come to naught without international political, administrative and financial support on an unprecedented scale. I believe all this arguing and toing and froing will come to naught in the end. Attempts so far to forge a compromise have come to naught, leaving the upcoming session disturbingly unsettled. In the other case the Court will not allow its process to be set at naught and treated with contempt. It is not easy to trace the motives of the reformers or their inheritors as they gradually set at naught large elements of symbol in worship. Show More Sentences Since she's naught but an orphan, lacking dowry and family, then you should be content with a handfast. What if I saw one of my old teachers and they found out their swotty student has amounted to naught? It would have been for naught, alas, as later in the day Wright passed a second physical done by Dr. Jim Andrews. What if this is all for naught, my confession, my desire, my love, all for nothing? Otherwise the political savvy and power-sharing successes of the new government will be for naught. He likes to hint darkly of terrors that would set all such petty concerns at naught. All this maybe for naught, however, if the new tax regime fails to stand up to WTO scrutiny. On the other hand, if the global conditions continue to push oil prices higher, the Chancellor's attempts to calm the situation may come to naught. In the end, all the praise and support from the international community was for naught. In 1989, courageous people brought to naught the Berlin Wall. And Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught. But suddenly, your preparation seems like it was all for naught. Corrigan, Larson, and Cunningham realized that all their hard work had come to naught. Epsom showed a great deal of heart considering their lowly league position but there are days when courage counts for naught and this was one of them. In this way a party who is in breach of the contract will be able to set at naught an exclusive jurisdiction agreement which is the product of the free will of the parties. I can sharpen the edge back to what it was before, and repolish the blade itself, but all my work will be for naught if you don't clean it every now and then. We all know burned-out activists who have turned angry over the years as they see their finest efforts come to naught or, at best, only slowly digested by the system. The fact of the matter is that rising inflation is setting at naught the modest gains in take-home pay granted through tax reform and income rises. But these were naught but the idle dreams of a fanciful girl. At the tip of the steel wedge Conan roared his heathen battle-cry and swung his great sword in glittering arcs that made naught of steel burgonet or mail habergeon. Show More Sentences Hoping that his hi-tech marketing wiles will not go for naught, Bennett will now try to torpedo the prize ceremony. He's sailing as we speak, he just left the harbor naught but an hour ago. My attempts to raise money in France and Germany have come to naught. He said unless the boxers worked on their fighting skills, the quest for effective competition and excellence on the international scene would come to naught. Yet it all seemed for naught, ancient stock-market quotations or chalked messages on hoardings of the last century, with plus and minus signs featured prominently. But moments later there was a twist, and with it the fear that the prayers had been for naught. Venus' Epic Fight, for naught Long gone are the days when Venus Williams dominated tennis, but she sure still gives it her all. There was also foreboding in the poems, a sense that all could yet come to naught. The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly. According to Farmaner, the reforms of 2011 have largely come to naught. Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. His role could be embellished and added to that of Aurelianus Ambrosius, or he could be made into one of old Uther's favourite advisors and naught more. Examples from Classical Literature There was at work some great solvent making into naught the dross of custom and habitude. I must believe you, noll, for did I not, then I could believe in naught and hope for naught. But I do that, my lad, because I hope naught may come of it, but just a drinking of healths and the like. In thy philosophy there is naught but dreams of elixirs of life or homunculi. They, having eaten, had naught to do, and were only waiting a decent hour for departure. Gun-wheels, horses' hoofs, feet of men had made of naught the sower's pains. If each were a Samson, the laws of hydrostatics would set at naught their strength. So it seemed that they had naught to fear, save the daily chance of life and death. One morning it happened, the 16th of February, when naught of moment seemed to impend. If the whole question rested on the general and implied consent of the husband, Judith's mother had naught to tax herself with. Obviously they spent their lives in meeting notorieties on inbound steamers, and made naught of it. It is pleasant to record that all this match-making and machination came to naught. At last he had found permanence in a life where heretofore had been naught but transience. But the lapse of time was naught to her, nor the fever that throbbed in her head. But in the kangaroo figure, the burden is slightly shifted and naught is amiss. I know naught of your strange fashions and monstrous manners of haircutting. But Mr. Gandhi, with all his visionary idealism, was letting loose dangerous forces which recked naught of ahimsa. So folk followed them down to the ships, and all letted them of their journey, but attained to naught therein. With a buyer like Madariaga, all the tricks and sharp practice of the drovers came to naught. Yet in a day or two I grew used to all this, and I have naught but good to say of Caerleon elsewise. Show More Sentences And where once burned the eye of the cosmos will be naught but a hideous emptiness. Mark the spot of its vanishment and approach never so cautiously, and you see naught. There must be guile behind it, or he knew naught of the ways of men. I have thought of naught else since we came through the Bahamas. He had never heard of such a contrivance, and his keenness and wariness went for naught. His own offence counted as naught, so blunted was his moral sense. Well, they killed a wild turkey and a buzzard, the latter good for naught. And of my fealty, so solemnly sworn, Caterina knoweth naught. So far their treatment of her seemed to augur naught that might arouse her fears. For them there could be naught but enmity, yet he liked well to watch them, avid as he was for greater knowledge of the ways of man. But deep down in my heart there was naught but presages of evil. In behalf of the dignity of whaling, I would fain advance naught but substantiated facts. Born in savagery, having lived in savagery all their lives and known naught else, their sense of humour was correspondingly savage. He knew no names like these, and naught of meteorological potency. For blacks, the year's calendar should show naught but three hundred and sixty-five Fourth of Julys and New Year's Days. He went dreaming about, thinking only of his fairy and caring for naught else in the world. To spurn the hungry from their door, with naught to satisfy. Cobb, with the air of having visited all the cities of the earth and found them as naught. Pent in their vast and festering charnel-house, all organization and cohesion lost, they could do naught but die. Crossing one of the quiet jungle spaces, where naught moved but a velvety, twelve-inch butterfly, they heard the sound of shots. Show More Sentences I made a carbon, natch, so your ditching of the original comes to naught. Of that performance let naught be spoken, save in reverence. I mind the time when her yellow arms were naught but bone and parchment. Thus followed our undoing, for when the seas dried and the green hordes encroached upon us we could do naught but flee. Nothing remember of words and reck they naught of fore-swearing. Their knees continually adore, and their hands are eulogies of virtue, but their heart knoweth naught thereof. Rob looked at him swiftly, and saw naught but kindliness in his glance. Scarce a branch scraped against her, yet above and below, before and behind, the view presented naught but a solid mass of inextricably interwoven branches and creepers. If I couldn't keep secrets from th' other lads, secrets about foxes' cubs, an' birds' nests, an' wild things' holes, there'd be naught safe on th' moor. Tarzan let him up, and in a few minutes all were back at their vocations, as though naught had occurred to mar the tranquility of their primeval forest haunts. The barking and screaming of hundreds of baboons could mean naught else than that one or more of their number had fallen a victim to the allurements of the bait. Naught but the plash, plash of the fountain, the distant call of the birds. Naught was heard save the droning of the students and the sough of the wind in the forest. Naught else have I afforded you, madame, save very anciently a sestina. No further stirs the sullen soldiery, Naught but the last dread office can avail, Till she of the dark moth-eyebrows, lily pale, Shines through tall avenues of spears to die. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of naught? Words that rhyme with naught What is the plural of naught? What is the noun for naught? Translations for naught Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Naugahyde natus naturopathy naturopaths naturopathically naturopathic naughtier naughtiest naughtily naughtiness naughty naughty boy 6-letter Words Starting With n na nau naug naugh