How to Use countable in a Sentence

countable

adjective
  • Again, space-time seemed to have a countable number of microstates.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
  • An apeirogon is a polygon with an infinite yet countable number of sides.
    Julie Orringer, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2020
  • The set of natural numbers is countable, as is any group of objects that can be placed in an infinite list.
    Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2019
  • There must be two days off each week and a maximum of 20 hours of countable activities per week.
    Mike Rodak | [email protected], al, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Data are just a bunch of qualitative conclusions arranged in a countable way.
    Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The program must also limit its hours of practice and its number of countable coaches during sessions.
    USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Endpoints such as hospitalization and death tend to be binary and countable.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Friday’s game against the Mets marked Trout’s first time playing at Citi Field for a countable ballgame.
    Zach Helfand, latimes.com, 19 May 2017
  • According to conference guidelines, each team must have at least six scholarship players and one countable coach available for a game to be played.
    Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Jan. 2022
  • For instance , any school staff member may participate in recruiting calls between a countable coach and a recruit.
    Cecil Hurt, The Courier-Journal, 7 May 2020
  • One was Leka of Albania — a pretender to the throne, but countable nonetheless.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Jan. 2018
  • According to Big East policy, games will be canceled if a team cannot field at least seven players and one countable coach.
    Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 31 Dec. 2021
  • The Big East stipulates that teams must have at least seven scholarship players and one countable coach for games to proceed.
    Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Oregon is now projected to have 86 countable scholarship players, one over the limit.
    oregonlive, 23 Jan. 2021
  • And if the weight of the current five-game losing streak wasn’t heavy enough, now there are these rumblings that Nagy’s days as coach are numbered, perhaps even countable on one hand.
    Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Any school staff member, for example, may participate on recruiting calls between a countable coach and a recruit.
    Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 6 May 2020
  • These secret locales therefore reward players with a much more concrete and countable bounty for your aimless exploration.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Moving forward, if a team can’t field at least seven scholarship players and one countable coach, the game will be canceled and the conference will attempt to reschedule it.
    Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 23 Dec. 2021
  • In the press box, teams’ media relations staffs pass out reams of paper with every countable metric, from snap counts for players to a chronology of every play during the game.
    Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Per Big East policy a conference game will be canceled if a team has fewer than seven scholarship players and one countable coach available.
    courant.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • This allowance lowers countable income and typically results in a higher benefit.
    JosÉ Luis Villegas, Sacbee.com, 15 Nov. 2025
  • For example, the natural numbers (1, 2, 3, and so on) are a countable infinity.
    Quanta Magazine, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Babies acquire numbers one at a time and top out at a handful unless their families and teachers introduce larger and continuously countable numbers to them.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Since either one of these is the opposite of the other, that is, to be one - to exist in a minimally countable way - is the opposite of being zero, being nothing or not existing.
    Amir Husain, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • There remains one countable position left on Woodson’s staff, with Yasir Rosemond one possible candidate.
    Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Apr. 2021
  • According to Day, the Buckeyes are now allowed up to 20 countable team activities per week, including on-field workouts.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2020
  • However, the Big East announced Thursday a game would be canceled if one school had fewer than seven scholarship players and one countable coach available.
    David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Of those ballots, 44 were considered countable, with the remaining 11 ballots belonging to voters who were not registered.
    Tyler Van Dyke, Washington Examiner, 1 Dec. 2020
  • In other words, the trust itself is not a countable asset for purposes of eligibility for such programs and can be the difference between having many supports and services and having none.
    Wesley E. Wright, Houston Chronicle, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The volleyball program was also hit with a Level-2 infraction for countable practice hours under former coach Kaddie Platt.
    Joseph Duarte, Houston Chronicle, 18 Dec. 2019

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