How to Use mass in a Sentence

mass

1 of 3 noun

• Dig a hole twice as deep and wide as the root mass.
  — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 6 June 2026
• Some saw him during mass over the years.
  — Noel Brennan, CBS News, 8 May 2026
• In one corner, priests held a mass.
  — Chad De Guzman, Time, 21 Sep. 2025
• The district sends mass emails and texts.
  — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Jan. 2026
• This very same eruptive mass loss.
  — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 3 May 2026
• That’s the key to finding the black hole’s mass!
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2025
• There was a mass that hadn’t been there before.
  — Ayren Jackson-Cannady, SELF, 29 May 2026
• Plant them in mass in full to part sun in wet areas.
  — Teresa Woodard, Midwest Living, 21 Apr. 2026
• The greater the mass, the wider the event horizon.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• The test showed spots on her liver and a mass in her colon.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 13 June 2026
• What the new work does show is that our muscle mass is not a blank slate.
  — Bonnie Tsui, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2026
• How did anyone let mass culture run away with that idea?
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 11 June 2026
• This has been shown to improve muscle mass and strength.
  — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 3 Mar. 2026
• The plants can be used in mass or combined with other shrubs.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 12 Mar. 2026
• The deer is a main-frame 10-pointer with heavy mass.
  — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 28 Jan. 2026
• Custom goods cost what mass goods cost today.
  — Nicole Fraenkel, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
• This is unlike mass attacks that are done across the board.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• The trees’ mass can prevent them from getting blown over by high winds.
  — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 20 Sep. 2025
• Whereas my books were like clouds, up high, with matter but no mass.
  — Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
• Mass death, yes, but rational mass death.
  — Paul Kingsnorth, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
• Its mass is almost road-cracking.
  — New Atlas, 23 Jan. 2026
• Someone had to have dug the pit, stacked the corpses, bulldozed over the mass graves.
  — Seema Jilani august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
• The center is less than 5 miles from the scene of the mass shooting.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 20 June 2026
• The words in question were fist, fast, puff, pass, hiss, mess, less, gas, mass, and class.
  — Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
• William Young told the media at the scene of the mass shooting.
  — Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 21 Sep. 2025
• The mass protests have quieted.
  — ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
• Taiwan cannot match China’s mass with tanks or planes.
  — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
• Even passive suits add mass that the user must carry.
  — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2026
• Research suggests that fasting is a good way to lose weight and fat mass.
  — Caitlin Beale, Health, 19 May 2026
• One death was linked to a mass shooter and widely covered in the news.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026

mass

2 of 3 verb

• Clouds were massing on the horizon.
• The generals massed their troops.
• A large crowd of demonstrators massed outside the courthouse.
• What can mass atrocities teach us about it?
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
• Thousands more were massed outside the gates.
  — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
• Space plants three feet apart for massing in borders and beds or to plant a low hedge.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2026
• Plants can also be massed as a lush groundcover.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 29 Jan. 2026
• The nectar plants should be massed together in groups of three and five by color.
  — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 3 Apr. 2026
• Choose the right plants, repeat them, and mass smaller plants in waves of color to help tame the chaos.
  — Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Apr. 2026
• State troopers massed around him; later, he was led out of the capitol in handcuffs.
  — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2025
• The 8 to 9-inch plants can be spaced a foot apart in garden beds and used as edging or massed in groups.
  — Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2024
• This is a great way to mass select messages in the Mail or Messages app.
  — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 8 Apr. 2022
• There are few services for the tens of thousands of migrants who mass in city streets around Europe.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2021
• These are just cases that came to mass public attention and are likely just the tip of the iceberg.
  — Nan Li, The Conversation, 22 June 2026
• Federal agents had massed in the house and in cars on the street, conducting a raid on the construction site.
  — Cengiz Yar, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2026
• Mexico is taking steps to keep migrants from massing along the border.
  — Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, New York Times, 9 July 2023
• Russia and Ukraine exchange massed drone and missile strikes on a nightly basis.
  — David Brennan, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025
• No Greek houses will mass in the fields south of the stadium, across 17th Street.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2020
• Peasants massed in armed bands in one region, then another, and rebellion would break out even in areas far away.
  — Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
• They are commonly massed in lawns, where the linear foliage disappears among grass blades when the flowers fade.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
• Oakleaf hydrangea makes a stately accent in shady gardens and looks stunning massed in borders.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2026
• Oakleaf hydrangea makes a stately accent in shady gardens and looks stunning massed in borders.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2026
• Oakleaf hydrangea makes a stately accent in shady gardens and looks stunning massed in borders.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2025
• Removing the old customs and strictures led not to a flowering of virtue but to mass outbreaks of revenge.
  — Paul Kingsnorth, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
• The Emmys have evolved — from elite panels to mass voting — but the submission process remains a high-stakes art.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
• And post-war, there were factories ready and willing to mass produce all of the plastics that people has begun to rely on.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 31 Oct. 2022
• Scrape egg masses off with a putty knife into a bucket of hot, soapy water; don’t smash them because some may survive and hatch next spring.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 14 June 2023
• While Tevva now has the approval to mass produce its electric truck, the company is not new to the segment.
  — Ed Garsten, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• In a canal in the Dutch city of Utrecht, fish are beginning to mass behind a lock called the Weerdsluis.
  — K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 2 Mar. 2026
• Russian sage tolerates dry soils, too, once established and is beautiful massed or used as edging.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 28 June 2026

mass

3 of 3 adjective

• Television is a mass medium.
• Trump blamed wind turbines for mass killing whales and birds.
  — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
• It was judged to be some sort of mass hysteria.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 June 2026
• There is a mass shortage of taxis on the island.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Mar. 2026
• There would be no reports of mass death or strandings.
  — Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• There was talk of a mass work stoppage, walkouts.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
• Months later, mass protests over her death broke out in Louisville.
  — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 13 Mar. 2026
• Don’t go for mass impressions and reach.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• The more mass, the stronger the gravity, and the faster a star moves.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2025
• The mass audience isn’t the point.
  — Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2026
• Would there be countless mass shootings?
  — Kevin Powell, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
• There isn’t mass talent here anymore.
  — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
• There are concerns of mass shootings.
  — Miami Herald, 11 May 2026
• His last event is the mass start on Saturday.
  — Pien Huang, NPR, 19 Feb. 2026
• Acts of mass violence are rare in Britain.
  — Peter Wilkinson, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
• How many mass shootings have there been in Michigan this year?
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 28 Sep. 2025
• But almost from the start, Glocks were involved in mass killings.
  — Simon Akam, Vanity Fair, 2 Apr. 2026
• Over the past 50 years, the number of mass shootings has surged.
  — Krys Fluker, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2026
• After mass viewer protests, the show came back six days later.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2026
• Both shootings prompted mass protests.
  — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2026
• There have not been any mass shootings in the Bay Area so far this year.
  — CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
• If the court agrees, that could well lead to mass deportations.
  — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 9 June 2026
• For mass plantings, plant the bulbs about 4 to 5 inches apart.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 8 Oct. 2025
• They are no longer considered stellar mass black holes.
  — Bill Smith, JSTOR Daily, 4 Sep. 2025
• But the path to mass adoption isn’t guaranteed.
  — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2026
• Arizona's largest mass shooting also left nine dead.
  — Miguel Torres, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
• When they don’t get used up by our muscles (due to less mass), they get converted to fat.
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 26 June 2023
• The fact that so few people can get in is part of the point, a hedge against the trade-offs of mass appeal.
  — Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2026
• But there are fewer than two dozen mass producers in the country.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023
• Heat-tolerant breeds carry less mass and larger combs that shed heat.
  — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 30 June 2026