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 U.S. National Anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, was written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key. Key was sent to the British fleet in Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812 to secure the release of Dr. William Beanes on September 13, 1814. Beanes was captured by the British during their raid on Washington D.C. Beanes, a local official in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, had arrested two drunken British soldiers.