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.
People have their photo taken near a large statue of Paul Bunyan in Bemidji, Minn., Sept. 5, 2016. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times) According to Annette Atkins, a professor emerita of history at the College of St. Benedict and St. Johnâs University, outside St. Cloud, the large Bunyan statues that sprang up became ârural skyscrapers.â