Explore Zeroes through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Zeroes in a sentence
Zeroes meaning
plural of zero
Using Zeroes
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of zero
- In the example corpus, zeroes often appears in combinations such as: zeroes in, trailing zeroes, and zeroes.
Context around Zeroes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Zeroes
- In this selection, "zeroes" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, trailing, leading, jones, may, floating and across stand out and add context to how "zeroes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include add leading zeroes or trailing and amended bill zeroes out appropriations. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "zeroes" sits close to words such as aau, abandons and affections, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with zeroes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Portnoy’s critique zeroes in on this phenomenon. (8 words)
He’s posted zeroes across the board since then. (9 words)
If any one of these factors—capability, will, belief—zeroes out, so does deterrence. (14 words)
And it’s not because of my limited understanding of the employment prospects of gall-bladder surgeons, or the fact that I don’t know how to explain the processes behind machine learning down to the ones and zeroes. (39 words)
To review the official language used at the time of these offices’ establishment is to be reminded of the strong rationale for a confident approach that zeroes in on social, cultural and economic potential. (34 words)
And listen, you walking bundle of ones and zeroes: I'm keeping a close eye on you this time, so do us all a favor and focus on the comic, 'kay? (31 words)
And listen, you walking bundle of ones and zeroes: I'm keeping a close eye on you this time, so do us all a favor and focus on the comic, 'kay? (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Add leading zeroes (or trailing zeroes to the right of decimal point) to fill out the last group of three if necessary.
A reading of 8,000 m, with trailing zeroes and no decimal point, is ambiguous; the trailing zeroes may or may not be intended as significant figures.
And listen, you walking bundle of ones and zeroes: I'm keeping a close eye on you this time, so do us all a favor and focus on the comic, 'kay?
But for A.J. Brown, the possibility of leaving State Farm Stadium empty-handed Sunday night started to creep into his mind well before the game clock showed all zeroes.
Hannah-Jones zeroes in on the racial wealth gap as the ultimate evidence of the bridge between historical and contemporary racism.
Regardless of the cycles, there is a time when the slot zeroes in on the game statistics.
She hesitantly picked up the bill and realized there were a few too many zeroes on it.
Shift5's strategy zeroes in on guiding both airlines and military customers to precisely pinpoint and extract essential data without overwhelming the system.
Specifically, Corn zeroes in on the passage indicating that Cohen committed crimes "in coordination and at the direction of Individual 1," who just so happens to be Trump himself.
The House Appropriations Committee zeroes the funding for the Pathfinders in its fiscal 2024 bill.
To review the official language used at the time of these offices’ establishment is to be reminded of the strong rationale for a confident approach that zeroes in on social, cultural and economic potential.
And it’s not because of my limited understanding of the employment prospects of gall-bladder surgeons, or the fact that I don’t know how to explain the processes behind machine learning down to the ones and zeroes.
For example, the exascale computer Frontier, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, can perform a billion billion (1 followed by 18 zeroes) floating point operations per second.
He’s posted zeroes across the board since then.
If any one of these factors—capability, will, belief—zeroes out, so does deterrence.
Neither does the artist spare herself when she zeroes in on her own aging features.
Portnoy’s critique zeroes in on this phenomenon.
Rather, the comedy, first produced last year at Teatro Dallas, zeroes in on two women and one man whose lives were changed by marrying Hugo Wagner.
The amended bill zeroes out appropriations to educate the public about invasive species and for counties to control their feral chicken populations.
The Chukar bullpen, which was tasked with recording the final 12 outs, allowed just one sixth-inning run — and slammed the door with three-straight zeroes to end the game.
Common combinations with zeroes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- zeroes in 14×
- trailing zeroes 5×
- and zeroes 5×
- of zeroes 5×
- zeroes to 3×
- zeroes out 3×
- zeroes are 3×
- zeroes and 2×
- many zeroes 2×
- zeroes the 2×