How to Use aught in a Sentence

aught

noun

• The late '90s and early aughts were the last peak for movie stars.
  — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2024
• The $1,380 folding phone isn’t just a throwback to the flip phones of the early-aughts.
  — Amrita Khalid, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2020
• His big break came in the late aughts when a then preteen Justin Bieber hit the scene.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2023
• Megan Thee Stallion’s style is a nod to the early aughts as well.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 8 Jan. 2020
• Mercedes used to make a two-door G-Class, but stopped doing so in the mid-aughts.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2023
• In the aughts, Bebe was heralded as a go-to for many women and teen girls.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 10 Jan. 2024
• Crude, meanwhile, has bounced off lows last plumbed in the early aughts.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2020
• Towards the late aughts, the Princess of Wales would opt for wedges with floral dresses in the summer months.
  — Alex Kessler, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2024
• Thorn quit music to raise their children in the aughts while Watt ran a label and club night.
  — Vulture, 24 Apr. 2023
• But in many circles, it wasn’t considered cool to like Mitchell in the early-to-mid aughts.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2023
• His set rocketed me back in time to the Latin Explosion of the late ‘90s and early aughts.
  — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• Then, Amal channeled the style of the early aughts, wearing a black miniskirt, black jacket, black knee-high boots, and a pink sweater.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Oct. 2019
• The company earned press in the early aughts but no longer appears to be in business.
  — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
• Its faux leather leggings and skinny jeans gained traction with starlets of the mid-aughts.
  — Caitlin Moscatello, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• And who could forget the ubiquitous flower crown atop brides in the early aughts?
  — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024
• There’s also the famous McQueen skull scarf, which debuted on the spring 2003 runway and became one of the It-items of the aughts.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2024
• The soup gained traction in the late aughts, likely when the Campbell’s Soup Co. published a recipe for it that included beef broth.
  — Christina Morales, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
• There was an unexpected return to the ’90s and early aughts: flip phones.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2023
• This was also around the time when fashion from the early aughts started to fall back into favor.
  — Ashley W. Simpson, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2024
• The genre has always been popular, but its undeniable heyday spanned from the ’90s to the mid-aughts.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
• His hair is carefully groomed, returning to the caesar haircut and 360 waves that he was once known for in the early aughts.
  — Felice León, Essence, 22 Sep. 2023
• A day earlier, an editor in town to cover the event showed his hotel was still stuck in the early aughts.
  — Sofia Andrade, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2023
• From the late 1980s through the aughts, no company defined prep or inspired the kind of customer loyalty that J. Crew did.
  — Bill Heavey, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2023
• In the front row that day in the early aughts was Deion Sanders — sharply dressed in a floor-length, pinstripe stunna suit, two-toned wing tips and his signature half-inch cut.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• The student journalists’ computer software is spot-on turn-of-the-aughts.
  — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• His antitrust lawyer father took on Microsoft in a major trademark case in the mid-aughts.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023
• Spanx pioneered the shapewear movement in the early aughts and has innovated in the space ever since.
  — Amy Louise Bailey, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2023
• This means that younger audiences can’t experience the game in the same organic way that players did back in the aughts.
  — Imad Khan, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2020
• Unlike that of the late-aughts hipster, their taste for the antiquated isn’t ironic; it’s less twee than timeless.
  — Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 5 Sep. 2019
• The two veteran rappers took us back to the aughts, when songs weren’t simply uploaded to streaming platforms at midnight.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024