How to Use mass number in a Sentence

mass number

noun

• Penguins have been known to die from the virus overseas, though, not in mass numbers.
  — Todd Symons, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
• The effect is rarely witnessed in mass numbers, the team noted.
  — Mark Price, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025
• The show is a phenomenon and the books are selling in mass numbers.
  — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2026
• Lovebugs — the annoying, gooey black insects that splatter on your car’s windshield and grille while in an amorous embrace — have returned in mass numbers this month after recent concerns by experts that the bugs may have been headed for extinction.
  — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2026
• Interest in her field exploded in the late 1990s and again in the mid-aughts when the H5N1 bird flu virus began infecting and killing mass numbers of poultry in China and other parts of Southeast Asia — and infecting and killing some people as well.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 25 Apr. 2026