How to Use uncountable in a Sentence

uncountable

adjective
  • The number of lives this measure alone could save in the future is uncountable.
    — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2017
  • In an age of endless scrolling, uncountable snaps stored in and displayed on screens, a drawing stands out.
    — Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023
  • But someday, my shoes — or composites of them — will live uncountable lives.
    — Izzie Ramirez, Vox, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Trees floated on nothing, some uncountable number of miles away.
    — Erin McKittrick, Alaska Dispatch News, 15 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Elvis died one death, only to spring back in an infinite number of forms, as uncountable as the stars in the sky.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Boatloads of cash, uh, on the pain and suffering of uncountable people.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Can be used for a nearly uncountable number of business cases.
    — Tomas Montvilas, Forbes, 25 June 2021
  • This massive collection, now a decade old, gives you many of the (uncountable) highlights.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The forest is also home to uncountable species of plants and animals, all threatened by the blaze.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Artists have also reworked them into uncountable films, picture books and other forms over the decades.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The cylinders would nest inside each other like an uncountable set of Russian dolls.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2019
  • Our context windows are our lifetimes; our tokens are uncountable.
    — Charles Yu, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • The violence of that crooked line has traumatized an uncountable number of people.
    — Ajay Verghese, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The puzzle of emergence asks how regularities emerge on macro scales out of uncountable constituent parts.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The real numbers are uncountable and larger than the natural numbers.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The medical technologies born in the vineyards and farms of Arbois have since saved uncountable human lives.
    — Tom Hanscom, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 May 2017
  • At this moment, for example, an uncountable number of yous are reading this, possibly scratching their heads.
    — Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2017
  • Nina, the dark heart of April, is the holder of them all, absorbing them at some terrible, uncountable cost to herself.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • But there are uncountable billions of permutations where the molecules spread out in different ways throughout the water.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Search is a vast problem, with uncountable possible queries, and the ideal response is often open to interpretation.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Feb. 2023

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