Example Sentences for zero. The teacher dismissed the student's excuses as pathetic, and gave him a zero for failing to meet the deadline for his final essay. The teacher warned him not to look at his neighbor's paper, or risk getting a zero on the test.
Paul Bunyan in Akeley, Minnesota. Paul Bunyan is a fictional giant lumberjack. James MacGillivray wrote about Bunyan in 1910, which is the earliest writing about Bunyan that we know about. A few years later, in 1916, William Laughead was writing an advertisement, and decided to use Bunyan in what he was writing, and decided to make him a giant. 1 Origin of Paul Bunyan.
The words were written by Warren D. Cornell in 1889 and the music was added by W. George Cooper. I don't know much about why they wrote this but it was first introduced at a Methodist camp meeting near West Bend, Wisconsin. And while it is seldom sung today, its message of peace is one that we so desperately need today.