How to Use uncountable in a Sentence
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The number of lives this measure alone could save in the future is uncountable.
—Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2017
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As a person who plays in the kitchen for a living, an uncountable bevy of culinary tools and toys have come and gone from my life.
—Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 29 Aug. 2020
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And the number of stories in the Free Press that owe their facts, accuracy or punch to her are uncountable.
—Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2022
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The forest is also home to uncountable species of plants and animals, all threatened by the blaze.
—Aj Willingham, CNN, 22 Aug. 2019
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Boatloads of cash, uh, on the pain and suffering of uncountable people.
—Laura Johnston, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2022
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This massive collection, now a decade old, gives you many of the (uncountable) highlights.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 13 Dec. 2021
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In the floods and mudslides that followed, uncountable homes were swept away, and thousands of people (as well as hundreds of thousands of cows) died.
—Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
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There’s a wolf howling at the moon, pines growing in his neck, a crack in the slab making for a lunar contour, uncountable black dots burning a night sky.
—BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2021
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Roosevelt had come to Dakota to hunt buffalo; he had been told that some of the last remnants of the once uncountable herds had been seen on the Little Missouri.
—H.w. Brands, Time, 22 Oct. 2019
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The cylinders would nest inside each other like an uncountable set of Russian dolls.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2019
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Maybe this time will finally be the charm for Deutsche Bank, which over the weekend announced the latest in an uncountable series of turnaround plans.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 July 2019
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Each star in its uncountable bouquet extended a petal of light across trillions of miles and into our puny lines of vision.
—Marion Renault, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
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The heart of Shirreff’s show addresses the lives of uncountable objects that, like the books that held them, ended up in the remainder bin of history itself.
—Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Feb. 2021
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Over the past couple of months an uncountable number of Dear Algorithm posts have popped up on Threads as people on the platform have tried to find their people.
—WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
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Artists have also reworked them into uncountable films, picture books and other forms over the decades.
—Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2021
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The medical technologies born in the vineyards and farms of Arbois have since saved uncountable human lives.
—Tom Hanscom, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 May 2017
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In spite of its lavish opera-house good looks, the room was once used for quite another industry, one that contributed to uncountable deaths.
—Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 29 July 2022
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Trees floated on nothing, some uncountable number of miles away.
—Erin McKittrick, Alaska Dispatch News, 15 Sep. 2017
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The warnings that the country offers are all too clear and are recounted in uncountable histories.
—Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
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Whatever the reason, there's an infinite amount of hair dryers out there in every price range from an uncountable amount of brands.
—Medea Giordano, Wired, 3 June 2021
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Can be used for a nearly uncountable number of business cases.
—Tomas Montvilas, Forbes, 25 June 2021
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The violence of that crooked line has traumatized an uncountable number of people.
—Ajay Verghese, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2022
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Bird flu is also killing an uncountable but presumably vast number of wild birds, a change from its historic pattern in which wild birds carried the virus but were not sickened by it.
—Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2023
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The best news that comes from these uncountable tragedies is that a watershed event like the #MeToo campaign is a priceless teachable moment; and as always, the place to start is a conversation with your children.
—Philly.com, 20 Oct. 2017
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The real numbers are uncountable and larger than the natural numbers.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
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These cables work and have pulled uncountable numbers of ATVs out of compromised positions, but there is a better option.
—Popular Science, 17 Sep. 2020
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Most of us pass through daily life in places such as Houston or Miami without much noticing the uncountable acts of service that make one day blend seamlessly into the next.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
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And that the movie will have to demolish several San Francisco landmarks, uncountable bystanders, and most ideas of sense and continuity along the way.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2021
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Sydney is a city made up of several CBDs and a basically uncountable number of suburbs.
—Mike Meehall Wood, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
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Damage was done to Assad, a tyrant responsible for the deaths of an increasingly uncountable number of his own civilians.
—Jonathan Spyer, The New Republic, 15 Apr. 2018
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