How to Use by numbers in a Sentence

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• Hundreds of people are buried in the Hinds County pauper's field in graves marked by numbers.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
• After that, an export boom could see BYD soon become the world’s number one car brand by numbers.
  — Carlton Reid, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2023
• Her impact will never be measured by numbers alone, though.
  — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 13 Dec. 2020
• With Friday the 50th anniversary of Arbor Day, what once was just a pleasant rite of spring has morphed into a race by numbers.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2022
• However, at the heart of the book lie 10 diagrams for garden designs, a sort of paint by numbers that anyone can follow.
  — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Mar. 2021
• For some, a true No. 1 wide receiver is determined by numbers.
  — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 6 June 2022
• Nelson rules that jurors will remain anonymous and will be referred to by numbers only.
  — CNN, 14 Feb. 2022
• On a day in February, her teacher, Mrs. Sharon Lenahan, counts the students off by numbers, breaking them into small groups to work on math packets.
  — Hannah Drown, cleveland, 27 Sep. 2022
• The trophy isn’t decided by numbers, but Robertson’s impact on the Stars’ season was impacted there as well.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 9 May 2023
• The motion asks that jurors be referred to by numbers during proceedings.
  — Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online, 14 Feb. 2022
• The body count in southern Turkey is so high that graves are being marked by numbers instead of names as the authorities expedite burials.
  — Bloomberg.com, 10 Feb. 2023
• Young men’s lives celebrated by people who knew them as teammates and brothers and friends and people who knew them only by numbers on a jersey, by talent and exploits on the field.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Nov. 2022
• The potential jurors were only identified by numbers, not their names.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2022
• Identified in court only by numbers, both people were summoned to jury duty in the trial over Arbery’s slaying.
  — NBC News, 23 Oct. 2021
• Their statistics may be represented by numbers but their contributions to the city's sports landscape cannot be measured.
  — Alex Harrison, The Enquirer, 24 June 2022
• Under the setting sun, dozens of men perform funeral prayers for victims only identified by numbers.
  — Sarah Sirgany, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
• After all, the negative effects for which Murray apologized—the suppression of turnout, the fomenting of complacency—might just as easily have been caused by numbers that held up in the end.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022
• After all, the negative effects for which Murray apologized—the suppression of turnout, the fomenting of complacency—might just as easily have been caused by numbers that held up in the end.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022
• Both Coogler and Curry thrive in industries ruled by numbers—either court stats or box office figures—yet this focus on the quantifiable is what Underrated pushes against.
  — WIRED, 27 July 2023
• The report released Thursday does not name school employees directly, instead listing them by numbers.
  — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
• Far too often, the humanity of those inside gets shoved aside—or supplanted by numbers—in discussions about the criminal legal system.
  — Abigail Glasgow, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Aug. 2023
• As measured by numbers, each Habitat for Humanity homeowner earns only 30% to 80% of the area's median income.
  — Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 May 2022
• Wilt Chamberlain, as any casual hoops fan knows, is a legendary figure defined by numbers, fitting given how often he was accused during his career of being all about, well, numbers.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 July 2023
• Since then, through adolescence and into adulthood, my self worth has been dictated by numbers: weight, waist circumference, calories in, calories out, fasting blood sugar, ketones, dress size, jeans size, grams, ounces, macros, percentages.
  — Smriti Mundhra, ELLE, 13 Sep. 2022
• But his value was something not necessarily measured by numbers.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2021
• Quantifying antisemitism right now by numbers of hate crimes is useful, but doesn’t capture the peculiar anguish and human complexities of its day-to-day pervasiveness.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• Analytical personalities are often driven by numbers and figures and want to base their decisions on facts.
  — Nicholas Freund, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• Scientific knowledge, as measured by numbers of papers published, has been estimated to double every 17.3 years.
  — Erin McCreary, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2023
• Technocrats proposed the abolition of all existing economic and political arrangements—governments and banks, for instance—and their replacement by engineers, who would rule by numbers.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• The buildings are identified by numbers, designated in historical order of construction.
  — Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024