How to Use umpteen in a Sentence

umpteen

adjective
  • It’s been painted umpteen times and there’s a Playboy insignia on it.
    — David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2017
  • Capaldi has had umpteen small moments in which his comedic persona has been as loud as his songs.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 6 May 2023
  • There are umpteen ways to benefit from such open source initiatives.
    — Deepak Syal, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • There are umpteen medications to track, and insurance claims and bills to deal with.
    — Adam Galler, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Sure, Scheer, his friends, and the umpteen others who love The Room are laughing at Wiseau.
    — Hillary Busis, HWD, 1 Dec. 2017
  • Now the town is playing whack-a-mole with news outlets, and there are umpteen new places to drop a little scoop (including here—hint, hint).
    — Rebecca Keegan, VanityFair.com, 2 Feb. 2017
  • The umpteen changes that go into the bird skull may all owe to paedomorphosis, to one set of molecular changes in the early embryo.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2 June 2015
  • Now Maxwell Street is quiet, except when a sports bar's umpteen television sets provoke cheers or boos.
    — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2017
  • And these had their umpteen popular secular counterparts, often no less absurd or tragic.
    — Michael Robbins, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
  • Vermonters now have 150 miles of new rail across the state, with umpteen rail tiles, switches, and crosses upgraded or replaced.
    — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Your co-workers might be confused by your constant fanning, or your need for dressing in umpteen layers and peeling them off at seemingly random times.
    — Lisa Deshantz-Cook, Quartz, 3 May 2021
  • Enterprising types had—and have—umpteen ways to sneak money out, from overpaying for imports to smuggling cash across the border in luggage.
    — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
  • According to the Internet, it was mentioned in one of its umpteen documentaries.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2022
  • And in one, two or umpteen decisions, there exists the potential of conflict with an important stakeholder.
    — Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • He and his under-horn facial hair get stuck in umpteen variations of the prototypical Christopher Nolan scene.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2022
  • If farmers’ fears come to fruition, consumers could see prices go up not only on agricultural products, but also on the umpteen products that hide corn and soybean inputs such as gas.
    — Hallie Detrick, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Similar to Halloween, there have been umpteen titles in Wes Craven’s Scream slasher franchise.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2022
  • The seed bank has cataloged, propagated and conserved ancient vegetable varieties from rare chiles to umpteen varieties of tepary beans.
    — Elaine Glusac, chicagotribune.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Then there are our kids, our resilient girls raised in a post-9/11 world, whose familiarity with sheltering in place comes from umpteen active shooter drills.
    — S. Mitra Kalita, CNN, 11 Apr. 2020
  • In the battle for the best of the umpteen adaptations, this mundane and entirely unnecessary retelling can undoubtedly be counted out.
    — Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Hundreds of companies create data about people on the internet from Google to umpteen obscure little companies.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 1 May 2018
  • And for the umpteenth time in the past umpteen years, state and local officials have decided to focus on third-grade reading without doing anything to help school districts improve third-grade reading.
    — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The right stick has also been blessed with umpteen possible combos that lift gameplay level beyond other NCAA titles.
    — Erik Malinowski, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2006
  • Nothing against tourists who seek out marble showers with umpteen nozzles, or on-site spas that promise spiritual rejuvenation and free green apples, or a gym that serves infused waters.
    — Kevin Sintumuang, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2017
  • For starters, the model, which has already become popular in Europe and elsewhere, is based on limiting choice, which might not appeal to shoppers looking for umpteen options.
    — WSJ, 24 Apr. 2021
  • In one-brand systems, the sonic picture starts to come into focus in a way that rarely happens when products from umpteen manufacturers are thrown into the blender with the hope of achieving a unified sonic whole.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2022
  • With one of the lowest light pollution levels on earth, the Big Bend region has the rarest of dark night skies—which is to say not dark at all, but shining white with bright planets and umpteen constellations.
    — Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2021
  • There are umpteen apple cakes (Dutch, French, Mecklenburg, Dorset, whole-meal, mincemeat, polenta, caraway) and pages of marmalades.
    — Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 15 June 2021
  • But for now, break out your favorite contour palette, line up your umpteen-step Korean skin-care regimen, and take a trip down Recent Memory Lane.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 13 Dec. 2019
  • These smears resemble widespread allegations that Jokowi is a closet Christian, or has licensed the building of umpteen churches while restricting the construction of mosques.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2018

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