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.
Two of the most famous Puritan writers were John Milton (1608 to 1674), who wrote the poem Paradise Lost, and the preacher John Bunyan (1628 to 1688), the author of Pilgrim's Progress.