Nil Definition

Nil Sentence Examples

• The national debt was practically nil until c. 1855, and the debt contracted thereafter owes its existence almost wholly to railway construction.

• If the political results of the mission were nil, the value to geographical science was immense; for though no geographer himself, Sadlier's route across Arabia made it possible for the first time to locate the principal places in something like their proper relative positions; incidentally, too, it showed the practicability of a considerable body of regular troops crossing the deserts of Nejd even in the months of July and August.

• His confession that he had known only twenty happy days in his long reign is perhaps a moral tale, to be classed with the "omnia fui, et nil expedit" of Septimius Severus.

• You also have to remember that the nil rate band takes into account any potentially exempt transfers made during the previous seven years.

• The possibility of escape was nil so secure was our twelve foot square cell.