How to Use number in a Sentence

number

1 of 2 noun

• The page numbers are on the top corner of each page.
• Think of a number between one and one hundred.
• Never give out your credit card number to anyone over the phone.
• I'm waiting for the number 3 bus.
• What's the account number on your electricity bill?
• No one yet knows the full number.
  — Sara Huston, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
• But these numbers are not set in stone.
  — Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 21 Sep. 2025
• Those numbers will not gain them many style points.
  — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026
• The numbers that stood out most were on the ground.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
• That's twice the number of points for the same trip.
  — Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2026
• But don't be fooled by the first move once the numbers hit.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 20 May 2026
• The Wayans have numbers on you.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026
• Tad claims those texts didn’t come from him and that’s not his number.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 24 Jan. 2022
• That number cannot grow very large, though, as that would drive atoms away.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2018
• The exact number won’t be known for a few weeks.
  — Tony Jones, New York Times, 21 May 2026
• The good news is the numbers are public.
  — Tom Manzo, Oc Register, 6 Apr. 2026
• In this case, the numbers were too good to ignore.
  — Ryan Ford, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025
• At many clubs, the number can be even higher.
  — Paul Taylor, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
• The number of ski poles a biathlete might break each year.
  — ABC News, 16 Feb. 2026
• Those numbers track with the recent game tape.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 23 Mar. 2026
• So, these numbers just keep going up and up and up and up.
  — ABC News, 9 Nov. 2025
• For much of the year, the numbers didn’t match the effort.
  — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 Apr. 2026
• Why does this number keep coming back?
  — Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 13 May 2026
• On each key ring was a disk stamped with the number of keys that should be in the set.
  — James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
• Bo's job to help improve those numbers.
  — Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Sep. 2025
• That said, there will be a number of new faces in the sequel as well.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 29 June 2022
• Here is a tribute to just a small number of them, in their own words.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• That number is now down to +330.
  — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
• Age is just a number for June Squibb.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
• There’s strength in numbers and there’s strength in a unified voice.
  — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 13 July 2018

number

2 of 2 verb

• Each print is signed and numbered by the artist.
• He numbers her with the other great poets of the time.
• The team's coach bought all the players numbered jerseys.
• The animal, which once numbered in the millions, is now extinct.
• She numbers and arranges the photographs according to when they were taken.
• Your days are numbered seed oil.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 31 May 2026
• Here’s why those days are numbered.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
• The other cards in his hand are all numbered.
  — Kayti Burt, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
• There are four species of the virus — numbered dengue 1 through 4.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 26 Dec. 2019
• Even so, the nickel’s days may be numbered.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026
• The jacket is foil-stamped and numbered.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Feb. 2026
• Five of them will be white balls numbered 1 to 69.
  — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 28 June 2026
• Five of them will be white balls numbered from 1 to 70.
  — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 24 June 2026
• Those rungs are numbered 0 to 10.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026
• The black dots that number each side are hollow, so faces with more spots weigh less.
  — Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 6 Oct. 2020
• The first batch, mixed from scratch and rolled out by hand, will number about 50.
  — Wyatt Williams, Bon Appetit, 18 Apr. 2017
• By the time of my visit, their last group had numbered around 25.
  — Aaron Cantú, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2019
• As the deadly protests in Iran spread, are the regime's days numbered?
  — CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
• Each seat is numbered, so servers know where to go with the food ordered in-theater.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• The days of Bob’s News and Books may be numbered.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
• Sometimes, the group numbered 50 or more.
  — Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2026
• It was taken apart and the stones were numbered and put back together.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2018
• Now the days of swiping the blue and yellow plastic cards are numbered.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 28 Dec. 2025
• Your days of having to drive or walk to get your Starbucks fix are numbered.
  — Sabrina Rojas Weiss, refinery29.com, 25 July 2019
• By noon, people numbered in the hundreds.
  — James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
• In other parts of the country, colonies may number in the millions.
  — David Ferry, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• If the two schools are combined, Sparkman climbs to number three on the list.
  — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 16 Aug. 2019
• There were some dark days in Cleveland, knowing his time there was numbered.
  — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026
• The combos are numbered on the menu, and the com tam dishes go all the way to No.
  — Kate Washington, sacbee, 9 Feb. 2018
• The first wave will number five thousand kits, shipped free to applicants in high-need zip codes.
  — Jason Phillips, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025