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.
Paul Bunyan Statue; Bemidji, MN. As the mythical hero of lumberjack camps nationwide, many Paul Bunyan statues dot roadsides across the U.S. But there is one that stands out among the pack. The boxy Bunyan in Bemidji, Minnesota is rumored to be the first in the nation. The 18-ft.-tall, 2.5-ton shrine, erected in 1937, honors the mythic man who became a symbol of strength and vitality from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin to the Western frontier.