How to Use days are numbered in a Sentence

days are numbered

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  • Your days are numbered seed oil.
    Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Bosnignore hopes the pay gap’s days are numbered.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Treatment might extend my life a bit, but my days are numbered.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2026
  • But now, the days are numbered for those signature scales.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The days are numbered for Eddie Bauer’s store fleet.
    Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Now, in the face of the changing world of journalism, maybe their days are numbered.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The penny’s days are numbered, and some retailers are already running short of the one-cent coins.
    Mike Snider, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Six-seven-ing seems to have peaked around Halloween, and now, as the holidays descend, its days are numbered.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Our current backboard is cracked and glued back and the supporting base has multiple huge cracks, the days are numbered for my current hoop.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Perhaps the most ugly truth of human spaceflight is that the ISS is old and its days are numbered.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026
  • But the days are numbered for any company that doesn’t develop a human talent pipeline with the judgment to direct it.
    Jeff Raikes, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Whether that means its days are numbered, or it’s being replaced by an all-new generation, pricing on the existing reference will move the moment the fair opens.
    Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2026
  • MSNBC‘s days are numbered, but the era of MS NOW is about to begin.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Your days are numbered, because Los Angeles County's toughest uniformed officer is about to walk the beat again.
    EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • To many commentators, this disastrous trajectory suggests that Putin’s days are numbered.
    John Mueller, Foreign Affairs, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Trump recently said war with Venezuela is unlikely but suggested that Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro’s days are numbered.
    Jared Gans, The Hill, 12 Nov. 2025
  • German Chancellor Friedrich Merz expressed optimism that the Iranian government’s days are numbered.
    Jared Gans, The Hill, 14 Jan. 2026

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