How to Use umpteenth in a Sentence

umpteenth

adjective
  • This time last year, Tiger Woods shocked the golf world for the umpteenth time.
    — Adam Woodard, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
  • So instead of watching the same movie for the umpteenth time, help your kids find a new favorite.
    — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 17 July 2023
  • Now, for the umpteenth time, businesses are ready to get serious.
    — Stefanos Chen, New York Times, 10 July 2023
  • And, for the umpteenth time this season, the New York Knicks failed to do that.
    — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Imagine everything good about a cheesesteak but amped up to the umpteenth degree.
    — Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Green, for the fourth time this year and for the umpteenth time of this dynasty, lost his cool in such a manner that removed him from the court.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Valeria Pototska rolls her eyes and tells her son no for the umpteenth time.
    — Samya Kullab, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023
  • May this umpteenth attempt make an actual difference in the real world.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • For the umpteenth time during a half-hour interview, Ivy moves his hand just a few inches to grasp his cellphone.
    — Robert N. Jenkins, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • For the umpteenth time, there is no evidence of cheating in the 2020 election.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 18 July 2024
  • This makes for a good, if not great, season overall, and one that will seamlessly slot in amid your umpteenth rewatch of the whole series.
    — Evan Bell, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The hosts, for the umpteenth time on Saturday afternoon, gave away possession in their own half.
    — Beren Cross, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • For the umpteenth time, Kanye pissed off the whole world in 2022 with his spree of antisemitic comments.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Rohan Nadkarni Their umpteenth holding penalty didn’t hold back the Ravens.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024
  • But that would likely be the more rote types of work in those fields such as aggregating news articles or rewriting the umpteenth draft of a movie script.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 28 May 2024
  • Unable to find the right gear, the Wild finally stalled and got their doors, windows and tires blown off at home for the umpteenth time this season.
    — Michael Russo, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
  • This is just the umpteenth example that everything that falls into her hands is likely to become a piece to look at with different eyes.
    — Arancha Gamo, Glamour, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Now, crochet ballerinas arrive as the umpteenth hybrid-shoe concept to occur this season.
    — Lucía Tejo, Glamour, 15 June 2025
  • Not with breaking transfer news but with an umpteenth text asking what was up and, with more melancholy, why more wasn’t up and why everyone was being so frugal.
    — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • For the umpteenth time under Kenny Payne, there is nowhere for the Louisville men's basketball program to go but up.
    — The Courier-Journal, 30 Jan. 2024
  • This marks the umpteenth time that lawmakers couldn’t cross the threshold to pass and enact changes to how PBMs do business.
    — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • And for the umpteenth time, one of the big drivers for another late loss in Cleveland was, of course, the Twins’ own shortcomings.
    — Dan Hayes, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • Roughly half an hour later, two forehand winners and the umpteenth exquisite drop volley of his career put Djokovic a break up in the fifth set.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 29 May 2026
  • As one of the most foremost experts of red carpet glamour mastery, Roach has nailed it for the umpteenth time this evening with his new soft and tousled pixie.
    — Jaimie Potters, InStyle, 15 Mar. 2026
  • This might seem smart, building the umpteenth installment of a franchise around plot elements from an earlier highlight of that franchise.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 17 May 2023
  • With that mindset in the age of streaming, why bother to invest the time in new music from emerging artists when fans can listen to that oldie-but-goodie for the umpteenth time?
    — David Chiu, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • An umpteenth countdown on Saturday revealed another variant drop, her ninth.
    — Bryan West, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Somehow that reflection makes his umpteenth comeback more endearing than bashing out hits into his 70s.
    — Courtney Devores, Charlotte Observer, 17 May 2025
  • On Wednesday, after the NYT piece, Back issued his umpteenth denial.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Denver’s players were offering public endorsements of Adelman for the umpteenth time.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 28 May 2025

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