How to Use sum in a Sentence

sum

1 of 2 noun
  • The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
    — Sunnah Rasheed, InStyle, 25 May 2026
  • The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 May 2026
  • In sum, this could be a sweet deal for a city.
    — Daniel Borenstein, Mercury News, 12 June 2026
  • In this case, the sum is much greater than its parts.
    — Monti Carlo, AJC.com, 22 May 2026
  • The sums at stake are enormous.
    — Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The money in the bill is part of that sum.
    — David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The total was greater than sum of the parts.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2026
  • That sum was not spent elsewhere.
    — James McNicholas, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • But at four or five times that sum, the net casts much, much wider.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Buying a new one can set you back a tidy sum.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Now, the sum must be better than the parts.
    — Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2026
  • But large sums, per se, don’t bother me.
    — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Here's how long that sum lasts in every state.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
  • And that vast sum of money could do many, many things.
    — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 12 June 2026
  • Leeds, on the other hand, are more than the sum of their parts.
    — Graham Ruthven, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Most models still read Meta as a sum of its parts.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • My father passed away and left me a large sum of money.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 15 June 2026
  • The man noted the large sum was hard to fathom.
    — Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
  • His appeals of both sums of money failed this year.
    — Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • That sum is up more than 22% from the frame prior.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • An exact sum was not proposed, but still the man agreed.
    — David Sedaris, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • That could amount to a seven-figure sum.
    — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • That sum is up 627% from the frame prior.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • On the other hand, the same sum stashed in a big bank would only yield a few bucks.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Why were Burnley awarded such a large sum?
    — Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 10 June 2026
  • These sneakers are not the first to have sold for a staggering sum.
    — Amarachi Orie, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The sums outlined above also do not show the full picture.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • But that doesn’t mean flying with a large sum will go unnoticed.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Sep. 2025
  • That's led the company to raise massive sums of cash.
    — Ian Thomas, CNBC, 19 May 2026
  • And those virtues and talents combine to form a whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 8 Apr. 2023

sum

2 of 2 verb
  • Galatasaray’s goal summed it up.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Jones might have summed it up best.
    — ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • That's about the way to sum it up.
    — Will Lennon, ABC News, 8 May 2026
  • In the end, the bag of chips might sum him up.
    — Eric Lach, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Reed, who lives in Texas, summed it up well.
    — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • That about sums it up nicely, song.
    — Glen Weldon, NPR, 14 May 2026
  • Here’s a little nugget that might sum it up.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • That's what sums it up best, is Change of Plans.
    — Chris Barilla, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
  • To sum it all up, the current bubble is a mess.
    — Jim Root, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
  • There’s no better way of summing them up.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • Higgo summed it up in a way many of us can relate to in all walks of life.
    — Thomas Schlachter, CNN Money, 15 May 2026
  • Purdy summed it up pretty well.
    — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 6 Dec. 2025
  • And her husband, Jimmy—oh, just sum it up!
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • One pleased customer summed this up simply as worth the money.
    — Lauren Levy, Health, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Perhaps Counsell summed it up best.
    — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • To sum it up, the good comes with its challenges — that is how Neptune rolls.
    — Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 23 Jan. 2026
  • That about sums it up for some really simple, easy-to-tie knots and hitches.
    — Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 12 July 2023
  • Kakanias sums it up more succinctly.
    — Ian Phillips, Architectural Digest, 24 June 2026
  • What happened next summed everything up.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2026
  • To sum everything up, AI search is no longer a future trend.
    — Manick Bhan, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • To sum that up, this is a moisturizer that both reduces and stops new signs of aging.
    — Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 2 July 2026
  • But the word that summed Springer up, according to Rashid, was genuine.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 27 Apr. 2023
  • And that talk was just, to sum it up, really just, ‘Hey, go play basketball.
    — Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Hence people’s utilities cannot be summed in a meaningful way.
    — George G. Szpiro, Big Think, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Einstein summed it up better; ‘More the knowledge, lesser the ego.
    — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 18 June 2023
  • To sum it up, the best time to take a probiotic is first thing in the morning on an empty stomach.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Lockwood, for one, refuses to sum her story up neatly.
    — Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Estimates are shown to the nearest dollar; rows or columns may not sum due to rounding.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • That sums to about $40 billion – far short of the $56 billion price tag for eBay.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 4 May 2026
  • The candidates had two minutes to make opening remarks, then take questions, then sum it up.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2023

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