How to Use ground zero in a Sentence

ground zero

noun

• Lewis said Arizona is ground zero for the future of the U.S.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2022
• The village — Point Hope — is less than 30 miles from ground zero.
  — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2022
• In the years since, New York City has emerged as ground zero for the infections.
  — CBS News, 28 July 2023
• The attack reduced the World Trade Center to a deep gash in the earth called ground zero.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 6 June 2024
• 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
• And ground zero for dressage in the Olympics was … in Palm Beach County.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2021
• One room looked like ground zero for a million walks of shame.
  — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 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
• 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
• The ground bulged, and a line of torches marking ground zero flew into the air.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
• So Georgia is in many ways ground zero for the midterm elections this year.
  — ABC News, 9 Oct. 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
• Vice finds the hospital to be ground zero in matters of faith.
  — oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2022
• Many of those 2024 hopefuls will be trekking to Georgia in the next seven weeks – ground zero in the fight for the U.S. Senate.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 13 Nov. 2020
• The board was ground zero for K-12 culture wars that Youngkin made a focus of his campaign.
  — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
• The East Coast has become the new ground zero for recreational use laws.
  — Ashan Singh, ABC News, 2 June 2021
• The Twin Cities, finally, can act as ground zero as proof.
  — Star Tribune, 1 May 2021
• The deal fell through, and Access Youth Academy was back at ground zero.
  — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2022
• Much like the Antarctic, Greenland is ground zero for the impacts of climate change.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 10 Aug. 2022
• Pennsylvania could be ground zero in the battle for the White House and the Senate.
  — Mike D'onofrio, Axios, 23 July 2024
• The latest from the states In the war over transgender rights, Florida is ground zero.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• Presenting Iger at Disney’s ground zero was a form of circling the wagons and putting the boss on a pedestal.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
• Minnesota was ground zero for the George Floyd riots that rocked the country in 2020.
  — Jeremy Lott, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Aug. 2024
• The San Antonio area is ground zero for the history of chili.
  — Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 9 Nov. 2020
• Judy Blume and is ground zero for Key West's literary scene.
  — Tracey Minkin, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2023
• The king is most at home at London’s Savile Row, ground zero for bespoke suits.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2022
• As a Black man born in the diaspora, our ground zero tends to be slavery.
  — Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2020
• This was what ground zero looked like for their community in upstate New York.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2024
• Anything on the surface that creates a shadow and somewhere for little fish to congregate and hide is ground zero for dolphin.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024