How to Use even number in a Sentence

even number

noun
  • Plus, the even number of drawers means kids don’t have to argue about who gets what.
    — Jessica Booth, Parents, 7 Aug. 2024
  • There aren’t an even number of weeks to align with the number of months in our calendar year.
    — Addy Bink, The Hill, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Now in its third year, Johnson said the goal is to have an even number of men and women at next year’s event.
    — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Then measure the fullest part of your bust and subtract that first even number band size to find your cup size measurement.
    — Kate Watson, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The 1993 finals finished with an even number of total points for each team.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 16 June 2026
  • On the other hand, an even number of twists yields a two-sided structure called a twisted cylinder (shown below left).
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The guest list Your guest list needs to be an even number, Del Rio says, so no one will feel like the odd person out.
    — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
  • For example, Goldbach's conjecture states that every even number greater than two is the sum of two odd primes.
    — Craig S. Kaplan, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
  • For example, Goldbach's conjecture states that every even number greater than two is the sum of two odd primes.
    — Craig S. Kaplan, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Parade organizers also wanted the rainbow to have an even number of stripes so to split and line the street along parade routes.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 7 June 2024
  • Again, no matter the salary, Bam Adebayo is not a number-one or even number-two scoring option.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Tournament rules dictate that play is suspended at an even number of games, or upon completion of a tiebreak.
    — James Hansen, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2026
  • To measure the diameter of a ceiling fan with an even number of blades, simply measure from the tip of one blade to the tip of the blade across from it.
    — Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2023
  • Every even number generation of wireless is huge.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 10 May 2026
  • The twelve signs are said to alternate in a yin and yang sequence, depending on whether the animal has an odd or even number of claws, hooves, or feet.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Dec. 2022
  • If expansion is approved, the board would then have to vote to change the regulation that says each division must have an even number of schools.
    — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Now, the couple will have an even number of boys and girls–a fact that Turner believes Harper is looking forward to.
    — Annabelle Canela, Parents, 15 Apr. 2025
  • It is based on the principle that groups of three items are more eye-catching, harmonious, and visually satisfying than an even number, like two or four.
    — Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Moving teams from one league to the other would only be based on necessity, and geographical alignments are needed to create an even number of teams in both leagues.
    — Hunter Mulholland, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
  • What began a century ago as a nice, even number—g=2—has now spiraled into a task of monstrous precision and fractal complexity.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2023
  • And given that the FOMC has an even number of 12 members, that raises the question of what would happen in a tie vote.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Anderson, the state climatologist, said an even number of El Niños this century have produced dry and wet winters.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Most fatty acids in Earth’s organisms have an even number of carbon atoms, so finding this feature on Mars could point to the potential existence of life.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The even number of electrons in carbon and silicon typically means that their charges all exist in pairs with opposite spins, which cancel each other’s magnetic fields.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Aug. 2023
  • But current and former council members said last week that having an even number of council members, while certainly a challenge, might be a good thing that forces members to work harder at building consensus.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2023
  • If passed, the group would have to collect an even number of signatures across Arizona's 30 legislative districts, making the collection more difficult but to some, more fair.
    — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Even the Federal Election Commission is designed for partisan deadlock with an even number of members from each of the two major parties.
    — Thom Reilly, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The rotavirus also used to follow a biennial pattern where cases would peak every other year, typically on even number years like 2024.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The only way, then, that a Clerk-Treasurer would be called in to vote would be if there were an even number of councilors present at the vote, but since all of them were present, the ordinance failed by majority, or four votes.
    — Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Kimmel’s joke was met with an almost even number of laughs and groans, but little did anyone know that two days later at the actual WHCD there would be a shooting that derailed the entire night.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2026

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