8 example sentences using minus.
Minus used in a sentence
Minus in a sentence as a noun
Had he had five minus $2K days in a row at the start, he'd be out.
I myself wouldn't pay to use Facebook minus the ads.
I understand it's an arms race with spammers, and they do give a lot of value for free minus ads.
When politicians say "small government" they really mean "low taxes", and when they say "liberty" that is measured as 100% minus the top marginal tax rate.
Minus in a sentence as an adjective
Programming is hard and if somebody is scared by minus signs in front of method names, evil spirits will suck his soul out by the time he gets to thread synchronization.
In my case, I was hooked up to an apheresis machine for a few hours, and it basically pumped blood out of one arm, and then pumped back the blood minus stem cells into the other arm.
And I can tell you minus Eclipse programming in Java would be a very frustrating experience, given the verbosity, configuration mess and XML's all over the place.
Read the language of the decision carefully and you'll see that had Levison simply began this process with his proposal, minus the time lag problem, but perhaps even including the price tag, he might have had that solution accepted!
Minus definitions
an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated; "the subtraction of three from four leaves one"; "four minus three equals one"
See also: subtraction
on the negative side or lower end of a scale; "minus 5 degrees"; "a grade of B minus"
involving disadvantage or harm; "minus (or negative) factors"
See also: negative