count (someone) in

idiom

: to plan to include (someone) in an activity : to consider (someone) as one of the people who will be doing something
"Do you want to go to the beach with us?" "Yes! Count me in!"

Examples of count (someone) in in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Facing a 1-2 count in a tie game, Frazier turned around on a 96 mph fastball, yanking it into the right-field bleachers in the second inning. Kevin Flaherty, Kansas City Star, 9 June 2024 As a killer who racks up a body count in the hundreds, Plaza plays into her popular icy persona to an extreme degree, even if the character can be a bit divisive amongst the fandom. EW.com, 6 June 2024 That’s 29% fewer total homeless people than volunteers counted during the preceding count in February 2022, and 41% fewer homeless people sleeping outside. Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 5 June 2024 And when Hmong vendors in the produce sections started learning how to count in S’gaw—a language of the Karen refugee families—more people soon filled the market's aisles after discovering fruits and vegetables familiar to them. Kao Kalia Yang, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Dec. 2023 As of the last count in 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau said Vega’s old home county has 1.9 million people; Sacramento County, the agency said, has about 350,000 fewer residents. Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 30 May 2024 Not only is this generation great at making their opinion count in the household, but also has some spending power of their own. Byjeena Sharma, Fortune, 24 May 2024 Cruz Montano Alduenda, 57, pleaded no contest to a single vehicular manslaughter count in the September 2021 crash that killed siblings Honesty Jenkins, 6, and Damarion Jenkins, 11, court records show. Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024 What's more, Yu and his team found a correlation between lower sperm count in the dog testicles and the presence of PVC (the analysis couldn't be done on the human samples because of how they had been stored). Will Stone, NPR, 22 May 2024

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“Count (someone) in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/count%20%28someone%29%20in. Accessed 14 Jun. 2024.

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