How to Use cumulative in a Sentence

cumulative

adjective

• Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.
  — Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance",
• The union staff said the cumulative effects of the past year will linger.
  — oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2021
• To win, a team had to solve the most problems in the fewest attempts and the least cumulative time.
  — Marco Santana, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Why the faith in an unproven coach who led the team to a cumulative 14-22 record?
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 2 Feb. 2020
• That birdie dropped him to a cumulative 22-under par in the first two rounds of the last four majors.
  — Eddie Pells, The Denver Post, 15 June 2019
• Don't think there isn't an art to it, though; the cumulative effect lodges in your chest, and stays there.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2022
• Among all acts, Garth Brooks leads with 171 cumulative weeks atop the chart.
  — Jim Asker, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2017
• The union said the Delta deal will lead to a cumulative $7 billion in pay raises.
  — Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 11 May 2023
• That pushes the eight-track set's cumulative total for the two weeks to 3,000 copies.
  — Jeff Benjamin, Billboard, 29 Aug. 2017
• Watched in a binge, even though episode-long lulls don't last long, and the cumulative jokes build nicely.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 July 2019
• The total cumulative change includes the change from both of those months.
  — Claire Cain Miller, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2022
• And the blows, Straley said, were cumulative; the pain deepened with each new blow.
  — Carol Marbin Miller, miamiherald, 10 July 2018
• And, over time since the case's onset, the cumulative total of cases may be in the thousands.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2022
• The participant with the most cumulative points takes the pot.
  — Darnell Mayberry | , cleveland, 19 Aug. 2023
• Teams keep track of their cumulative points throughout the evening.
  — Rick Mauch, star-telegram, 14 July 2017
• As of Tuesday, his cumulative time in space stood at 916 days.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2024
• Historic inscriptions in the rooms add texture and the effect of the quotes and stones is cumulative.
  — Noel Rubinton, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2017
• Every shot counts and matters, and it’s a cumulative score for four days.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 10 June 2020
• Each athlete will take three runs down the track and each run counts toward the racer’s cumulative time.
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• This isn't a cumulative list; our state is pretty awesome, so of course, there are many more.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Oct. 2021
• But the cumulative effect of this year’s news was to cast doubt on whether that project would be completed on time — or at all.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 26 Dec. 2018
• The resilience of longleaf pine forests can have cumulative benefits for the health of the planet, too.
  — Jamie Dickman, Popular Science, 14 June 2023
• As a result, Halsey said, the cumulative impact of the virus on them is uncertain.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2021
• The niche agency has closed a cumulative total of more than $1 billion home sales in the last seven years.
  — Brenda Cain, cleveland, 26 June 2022
• But that was good enough to keep it in third place and advance its cumulative total to $94.6 million.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Jan. 2024
• But there the overall effect is one of cumulative pathos.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 11 July 2018
• The cumulative number of housing units the city wants to add borders on eye-popping.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2019
• And the cumulative price increase of the post-pandemic era has been nearly 20%.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 14 July 2023
• Not getting the sleep your body requires to feel its best creates a sleep debt, which is cumulative and piles up each day1.
  — Maressa Brown, SELF, 31 Aug. 2021
• But more likely the effect was cumulative, not any one slight but one too many, that prompted Merkel to change course.
  — Simon Shuster / Berlin, Time, 26 May 2017

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