How to Use ground zero in a Sentence

ground zero

noun
  • One room looked like ground zero for a million walks of shame.
    — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Hands are ground zero for daily wear.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Matt took the bus home that day, knowing his dad was at ground zero.
    — Gabriella Abdul-Hakim and Allie Yang, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Now my house is ground zero for everything that has gone wrong with this project.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Just trying to get these guys back to ground zero, about getting these guys back to work.
    — NOLA.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Vice finds the hospital to be ground zero in matters of faith.
    — oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Can Mnookin and her team bring it down to ground zero where some things work, and others don’t?
    — Kathleen Gallagher, Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2024
  • So Georgia is in many ways ground zero for the midterm elections this year.
    — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The ground bulged, and a line of torches marking ground zero flew into the air.
    — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Some intended to return home to Wuhan, ground zero for the virus.
    — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 12 Mar. 2020
  • My doctor failed to warn me how this simple test placed me at ground zero of a medical firestorm.
    — Howard Wolinsky, STAT, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The last two have been described as ground zero for the devastation.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025
  • So that leaves the final scene, where Lena encounters ground zero of the event.
    — Matt Miller, Esquire, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The village — Point Hope — is less than 30 miles from ground zero.
    — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2022
  • My cousin, a nurse, was working on the front lines at ground zero of the pandemic near Wuhan.
    — Selina Wang, CNN, 10 Apr. 2021
  • If this is the case, then Hoover Dam might be described as ground zero’s ground zero.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Rentals have become ground zero for AI overreach.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The coach has talked about going back to ground zero after such a successful season.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The East Coast has become the new ground zero for recreational use laws.
    — Ashan Singh, ABC News, 2 June 2021
  • Vigil gives me a recent tour of the farm, which sits just north of the Barela compound — ground zero for the bust.
    — Alicia Inez Guzmán, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Florida is our ground zero in our efforts to take back the House,’’ Perez said.
    — Steven Lemongello, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 May 2018
  • Trump and Harris hit 'ground zero' in the White House showdown.
    — Fox News, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The centerpiece of the memorial site is a 14-foot steel beam from ground zero.
    — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 9 Sep. 2017
  • In the years since, New York City has emerged as ground zero for the infections.
    — CBS News, 28 July 2023
  • Prescott penned the excoriating memo that is ground zero for this crisis.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Prescott penned the excoriating memo that is ground zero for this crisis.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 11 Nov. 2025
  • These days, Austin, Texas feels like ground zero for autonomous cars.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Scotland has been a kind of ground zero for restrictions on free speech rights for the pro-life community.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The San Antonio area is ground zero for the history of chili.
    — Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • And Marin County is ground zero for the Grateful Dead.
    — Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2026

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