How to Use minus in a Sentence

minus

1 of 3 preposition

• He left the restaurant minus his hat.
• Wind chills as low as minus 13.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 30 Jan. 2026
• Wind chills as low as minus 10.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 30 Jan. 2026
• Wind chills as low as minus 7 with 30 mph winds.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• Mostly cloudy and cold, with a high near minus 4.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 16 Jan. 2026
• At night, mostly cloudy with a low around minus 6.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• Wind chill values as low as minus 8.
  — David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Dec. 2025
• Wind chill values as low as minus 6.
  — Gillian Stawiszynski, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Dec. 2025
• Wind chill values as low as minus 6.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 12 Dec. 2025
• At night, mostly clear, with a low around minus 2.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 30 Jan. 2026
• At night, mostly clear, with a low around minus 5.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 30 Jan. 2026
• At night, mostly cloudy, with a low around minus 3.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• At night, mostly cloudy, with a low around minus 1.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 12 Dec. 2025
• At night, mostly cloudy, with a low around minus 3.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 28 Nov. 2025
• At night, partly cloudy, with a low around minus 9.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• At night, partly cloudy, with a low around minus 8.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• At night, partly cloudy, with a low around minus 7.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• At night, partly cloudy, with a low around minus 4.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 27 Feb. 2026
• At night, partly cloudy, with a low around minus 1.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 5 Dec. 2025
• Mostly cloudy, with a low around minus 5.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 16 Jan. 2026
• Counties north of the metro could see wind chills as low as minus 24.
  — Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2026
• At night, mostly cloudy, with a low around minus 12.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• At night, partly cloudy, with a low around minus 10.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• Mostly cloudy, with a low around minus 11.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 16 Jan. 2026
• Mostly cloudy, with a low around minus 12.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 16 Jan. 2026
• The Thursday night wind chill will be about minus 4.
  — Dan Basso, Freep.com, 3 Dec. 2025
• At night, Mostly cloudy, with a low around minus 5.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 27 Feb. 2026
• At night, Mostly cloudy, with a low around minus 4.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• At night, Mostly cloudy, with a low around minus 6.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 5 Dec. 2025
• Other spots in the region could see wind chills as low as minus 15.
  — David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Dec. 2025

minus

2 of 3 noun

• Put the minus to the left of the number.
• She decided that the pluses of owning a home outweighed the minuses.
• Some employers see a lack of experience as a real minus.
• That’s both a plus and a minus.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 30 Aug. 2025
• That, for sure, is his best plus/minus of the year.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
• Bucky Irving opened the drive with runs of three and minus-one.
  — oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2022
• Ware was worst on the Heat in plus/minus for much of the season.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2026
• The Hornets are first in plus-minus across that stretch, too.
  — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
• Both have been plus/minus and net rating darlings of late.
  — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 31 Dec. 2025
• His plus-minus rating of minus-11 was a team low.
  — Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2026
• But in the end, even the the Beavers’ C-minus game was good enough.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 4 June 2022
• His plus-minus rating of plus-24 led the team.
  — Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2026
• Matt Bradley had the best plus/minus at plus-27 points with him on the floor.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023
• Atlanta’s first match is in T-minus 4 days.
  — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 11 June 2026
• And then there is the ending, which also has plusses and minuses.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 May 2023
• And then there is the ending, which also has plusses and minuses.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
• The minus strand is then copied to produce a positive strand.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• There are just too many pluses that far outweigh the minuses.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 13 Aug. 2025
• They more or less balance out, by the way, the pluses and minuses.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 18 Feb. 2026
• Lenovo had the second-worst grade, with a C-minus.
  — Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2026
• And some people are saying, like min –minus plus of five seconds per-- per day.
  — Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025
• Ware now holds a team-worst plus/minus of minus 86 this season.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2026
• The 23-year-old breakout tops all skaters in assists and plus-minus.
  — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
• All five of Charlotte’s starters had a plus-minus of minus-12 or worse.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 30 Mar. 2026
• He was tied with Trey Stewart in plus-minus, and the two led the team in that stat.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Nov. 2022
• That development has been a minus so far.
  — Michael Cunningham, AJC.com, 15 June 2026
• Somewhere in there is the five-minus-one answer Zito must find.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026
• Bland and one-dimensional, this one scrapes by with a C-minus.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2022
• His plus/minus and net rating this postseason were the best of any Celtics starter.
  — Zack Cox, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026
• Gardner, 24, finished the win with a plus/minus of plus 9.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 9 Mar. 2026

minus

3 of 3 adjective

• Wind chills will get as low as the minus 30s.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
• Wind chill values as low as minus 3.
  — Matthew Cupelli, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Dec. 2025
• Wind chill values as low as minus 14.
  — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati Enquirer, 26 Jan. 2026
• Start looking two or three hours before the low tide at minus levels.
  — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2022
• But on the minus side, isn’t almost every angle the same for the big ball?
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• By mid-April, the space looked like a real kitchen, minus counters.
  — Joan Elovitz Kazan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 June 2022
• On the minus side, that makes both bands slightly less relevant.
  — Scott Fowler, charlotteobserver, 21 Aug. 2017
• And while a minus tide opens more area, less than a minus tide might still yield decent digging.
  — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 10 June 2023
• Friday could bring much of the same, with wind chills as low as minus 45 degrees.
  — CBS News, 19 Dec. 2022
• The margin of error for the poll is plus or minus three percentage points.
  — Mahita Gajanan, Time, 30 Aug. 2017
• Count back from 100 to one by minus six, then subtracting four.
  — James Crepea, AL.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• The wind chill is predicted to reach a low of minus 20 degrees.
  — Max Londberg and Andy Marso, kansascity, 26 Dec. 2017
• The negative terminal will have a minus (-) sign and a black wire.
  — Liam Gravvat, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022
• Wind chills in the minus 30 range can mean frostbite in 15 minutes.
  — Dan Basso, Freep.com, 20 Jan. 2026
• Wind chills in the minus 30 range can mean frostbite in 15 minutes.
  — Dan Basso, Freep.com, 3 Dec. 2025
• When there is a points tie, the first tiebreaker is goal difference (goals-for minus goals-against) in group matches.
  — C.j. Doon, baltimoresun.com, 13 June 2018
• Guadalajara This is the only match of the first three days without a minus-odds favorite.
  — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 11 June 2026
• The Seahawks have a turnover margin of plus-six, while the Eagles are minus-two.
  — Chris Wassel, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 22 Nov. 2019
• Wind chills as low as minus 27 were predicted there during the weekend.
  — Jenna Russell, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2023
• The club has scored six goals and given up seven on the season for a minus-one goal differential.
  — Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
• The winds would rise, and the temperature would fall to minus 60 degrees.
  — Marcin Jamkowski, Outside Online, 11 Apr. 2018
• Thomas is at minus-one, as is Collin Morikawa, who followed a 73 with a 70.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
• First, ask yourself is your overall situation a plus, minus, or neutral?
  — Nancy K. Schlossberg, USA Today, 26 June 2026
• This was minus Chris Paul, who was out with a fractured right thumb, and Cam Johnson (quad).
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2022
• Tamimi pled guilty to assault and incitement, and Lieberman sentenced her to eight months in prison, minus time served.
  — Batya Ungar-Sargon, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
• Because the Roamers are good down to minus 30 degrees, the bag is also a solid start for cold nights when paired with these pads.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 20 June 2019
• The light was almost blindingly bright, in fact, but the brightness could be adjusted using the plus and minus buttons on the top of the light.
  — Ellen McAlpine, CNN Underscored, 5 Nov. 2020
• Denver has a minus-three turnover differential overall this season.
  — Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
• Saturday will have a high of 32 degrees but will then drop to a low of 5 degrees, with wind chill values as low as minus 3.
  — Gillian Stawiszynski, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Dec. 2025
• Vegas Vic opened the Patriots at minus 6 with an over/under of 48.
  — Philly.com Staff, Philly.com, 5 Feb. 2018