How to Use zero in a Sentence

zero

1 of 2 noun

• It's supposed to fall below zero tonight.
• Two minus two equals zero.
• They are working to reduce the mortality rate to zero.
• The temperature is 10° above zero.
• The zeroes in the loss column and in the shutouts don't lie.
  — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• Herro steps to the line with nobody in the lane and zeroes on the clock and drains the first.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2023
• As the the clock hits zeroes and the Niners are all sliding over the field.
  — oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2019
• So the base way to talk to a computer is with ones and zeros.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 June 2023
• The bullpen nailed it down for the rookie with zeroes over the final three innings.
  — Craig Davis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 June 2018
• If the hash value doesn't have enough leading zeros, the miner changes the nonce and tries again.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 9 July 2019
• Lisa Henson told the streamer to start adding zeroes to the budget.
  — Wired, 30 Aug. 2019
• One is the unique series of ones and zeros, known as the code, that each GPS satellite transmits.
  — Alexandra Witze, Smithsonian, 1 Nov. 2019
• If there is a big difference in their answers, the CDC zeroes in on a cause.
  — Jim Prevor, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2018
• Van Nieuwenhuizen recalls the night when the results came down the phone line from Brookhaven—all 2,000 zeros, one at a time.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2019
• The drive toward clean energy and net-zero is steady and strong.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• At that point, zeros were a must, and Mickschl delivered.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 3 June 2019
• The team’s passion reached its boiling point as the clock showed zeros Tuesday night.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 23 May 2023
• In the second year of junior high, a math teacher drew zeros on her face, in ink, to mock her bad grades.
  — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2020
• That data is not just stashed away as inert ones and zeroes.
  — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 June 2018
• If only there were a few more zeroes in his bank account . . .
  — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
• And Tom Irwin, who is vicious — like a rooster seeing a speck of blood — he just zeros in for the kill!
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2018
• Free-breathing engines turn from heroes to zeros in the thin air.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 14 Feb. 2020
• Adding to the nostalgic shared along the Mariemont sideline after the clock hit all zeroes were the trials faced by the squad just a few short months ago.
  — Shelby Dermer, Cincinnati.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• That would be the final as the Lady Warriors were able to gain the final possession and chew the clock down to triple zeroes.
  — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 2 June 2018
• Each of the original characters seems to have added a couple of zeros to her net worth.
  — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
• Add eight or nine zeroes to the revenue pie, and the difference in slice size is substantial.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 7 June 2019
• Four relievers put up zeros behind him to set up the Cubs’ 5-4 win in 10 innings.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
• Or worry about the culmination of it until zeroes [are] on the clock.
  — Don Markus, baltimoresun.com, 2 Nov. 2019
• Kyla Irwin, starting for the third time in her career, had one foul and one rebound and zeroes the rest of the way through her line in the box score.
  — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• Everything else was zeros as Berrios stymied the Marlins all night.
  — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 31 July 2019

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zero

2 of 2 verb

• Michigan State zeroed in on Fickell as the top target from the start of a brief search and hire process.
  — Fletcher Page, Cincinnati.com, 10 Feb. 2020
• Under the bill, these resources would have been zeroed out.
  — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 10 Apr. 2018
• WaPo's Philip Bump zeroed in on this point on Thursday.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 27 Sep. 2019
• Records show that zeroing in on the fairgrounds was no simple task.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2019
• The media has zeroed in on farmer who lives roughly 13 miles away in Deep River, Iowa.
  — Matt Finn, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2018
• And that doesn’t appear to be the only time the Biscayne Park police zeroed in on one person and framed him for a host of crimes.
  — Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 12 July 2018
• Smith did not offer details as to why the police had zeroed in on trash and landfills.
  — Time, 23 Oct. 2019
• A few years ago, Washington’s Santana Moss had a pass hit him right in the chest as Kam came zeroing in.
  — Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 1 July 2018
• By the time Icahn zeroed in on Xerox in late 2015, the company had been shrinking for decades.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 21 May 2018
• But police quickly zeroed in on Irsan, his wife and then-21-year-old son.
  — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 14 May 2018
• One such couple—the groom being from Australia and the bride from Mumbai—and zeroed in on picturesque Goa to get married next month.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 19 Mar. 2020
• Andy Stasio made his escape from the pizza industry in 1980 as the Hunts zeroed in on oil and sugar.
  — Sarah Hui, Dallas News, 31 July 2019
• Miller and his staff will spend most of the weekend on the road, tracking prospects and zeroing in on specific targets for 2019 and beyond.
  — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 19 Apr. 2018
• Soon, though, the detectives zeroed in on Kelly and found her guilty of murder, sentencing her to life in prison.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 17 May 2018
• Others zeroed in on boarding and baggage as pain points that airlines could fix.
  — Scott McCartney, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2019
• The judges zeroed on Miller’s expert witness, who never gave a direct opinion that the litter could not be flushed, Bush wrote.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• The list of places to go is endless, so your best bet is zeroing in on one specific neighborhood.
  — Tara Lamont-Djite, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Oct. 2018
• In a tense exchange, Judge Drain said the claims were likely to be zeroed out under normal circumstances.
  — Andrew Scurria, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
• Her research often zeros in on the needs of students from their perspective.
  — Jaime Adame, Arkansas Online, 15 Dec. 2019
• Tip: Many comparison sites offer a deal-finding tool that zeroes in on the best prices by month or season; give it a try.
  — USA TODAY, 15 July 2019
• Researchers zeroed in on a site called Botai, in northern Kazakhstan, dating back to around 5,500 years ago.
  — William Taylor, The Conversation, 2 Mar. 2020
• The widespread expectation at the draft combine in May was that the Grizzlies had zeroed in on Morant with this selection.
  — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 11 June 2019
• In the secondary inspection area, a drug-sniffing dog zeroed in on the gas tank area of the bus, which was being driven by a 45-year-old Mexican man.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2019
• Their data zeroed in on people thought to be anti-tax or anti-transit and likely to vote.
  — Hiroko Tabuchi, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2018
• The report zeroed in on the unit economics, or per-order costs, of Uber’s food-delivery platform.
  — Alison Griswold, Quartz, 23 Aug. 2019
• For his part, Trump also has zeroed in on Biden and blasted him, a suggestion that Biden could be a threat to the president winning a second term.
  — Lisa Donovan, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2019
• Even before it was officially announced the penalty was against the Bears, Fox’s camera zeroed in on No.
  — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 24 Nov. 2019
• The British tabloids have zeroed in on the family members who don’t fit particular British ideals of class and refinement.
  — Jill Filipovic, Teen Vogue, 19 May 2018
• Sure, two big-screen productions zeroing in on the same town is a bizarre coincidence.
  — Dan Singer, Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2020
• This time around, though, Lively is zeroing in on a specific silhouette: the suit.
  — Ana Colon, Glamour, 27 Aug. 2018

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