NOUN
- the site of the World Trade Center before it was destroyed
- the point of detonation (or above or below) of a nuclear weapon
- the target of a projectile (as a bomb or missile)
How To Use ground zero In A Sentence
- Book of Hours begins with an image of the twin towers, protrusive amongst the mid-rise buildings that surrounded them at ground zero. Rachel Anne Farquharson: George Walker's Book of Hours: The Significance of a Decade Passed
- For those of you who have been living in a bathysphere beneath polar ice caps that are melting faster than a popsicle left out in the midday sun, LA is ground zero for the Cult of the Youth-Obsessed. Bruce Kluger: From the Mouths of Babes
- A few kilometres from the last former Soviet army checkpoint, the tarmac ends and the journey to Ground Zero continues off-road, across the parched and endless steppe.
- The pictures, dramatically arrayed on the walls according to their distance from Hiroshima's Ground Zero, show landscapes of burned-over rubble, concrete and steel buildings reduced to etiolated skeletons, and close-ups of flash burns and other interesting evidence of the awesome destructiveness of the bomb. Tragedy and Comedy of Life
- Rauf praises the tyrants in Iran and is apparently ready to accept their money for the Islamic center at Ground Zero, but he fails to explain the term vilayet-i-faqih to Infidel Bloggers Alliance
- An actual contact surface burst leads to the highest possible overpressures near ground zero.
- Ehlers and her dog were sent to an assistance center run by disaster-relief agencies, to join the family of one of victims and accompany them on a ferry boat ride to Ground Zero.
- As he arrives city after city, major media will revisit the controversy over its site near Ground Zero and Rauf will endeavor to outtalk, outpray, objections to the project, which was also the number one religion story of the year on the RNA List. Top Religion Newsmaker: Imam, pope or Sarah Palin?
- Others have taken solace from the slow but painstaking progress towards rebuilding the ground zero site. Times, Sunday Times
- To be at Ground Zero with Jackie was the most exhilarating experience I will ever have.
