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?
• Today's winning lottery numbers are 17, 8, and 46.
• That first number was crucial in setting the tone for the night.
  — Jhoni Jackson, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2023
• On the field, there will be a number of stark contrasts.
  — Joshua Robinson and Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
• That said, there will be a number of new faces in the sequel as well.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 29 June 2022
• And the last number is for the number of height or presence channels.
  — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 17 Nov. 2023
• The passing game has struggled and there have been a number of drops.
  — Clarence E. Hill Jr., star-telegram, 14 June 2018
• The prison cells hold double the number of men the space was intended for.
  — Brice Laine, CNN, 7 Apr. 2021
• Here is a tribute to just a small number of them, in their own words.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• Their numbers made sense to them, but not to anyone else.
  — Mary Williams Walsh, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2018
• Under the numbers, there are nine stars to represent the lives lost in the crash.
  — Rusty Simmons, SFChronicle.com, 7 Feb. 2020
• Tad claims those texts didn’t come from him and that’s not his number.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 24 Jan. 2022
• There are any number of examples of how bad the league has been on the issue of race.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 23 May 2021
• But that number likely took a hit because of the weather.
  — Corey Sharp, Philly.com, 19 May 2018
• Each session hones in on different parts of the body, and the number of reps vary.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Nov. 2021
• There are a number of controls and functions that the button can do.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 13 Oct. 2022
• School districts are funded by the state based on the number of students.
  — Julie Watson, Star Tribune, 26 Feb. 2021
• There’s strength in numbers and there’s strength in a unified voice.
  — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 13 July 2018
• Brands should put frequency caps on the number of times that an ad is shown.
  — Blair Currie, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• The project will be spotlighted in a number of ways this summer.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2022
• Few people want to be thought of as just a number, let alone a fraction.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
• The recent death brings the state’s total number of deaths to seven.
  — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 30 July 2020
• That number cannot grow very large, though, as that would drive atoms away.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2018
• Is there a big shooting or scoring number out of left field?
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2022
• That was more than double the number of deaths in a typical month at that time.
  — Keith Schneider, STAT, 15 June 2020
• In the best-case scenario, someone will text back with a name and a phone number.
  — Erin Delmore, NBC News, 20 Aug. 2021

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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.
• In that year, European settlers in the area numbered nearly 15,000.
• 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 two then needed to organize and number the pages of the papers.
  — Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2020
• In other parts of the country, colonies may number in the millions.
  — David Ferry, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• The black dots that number each side are hollow, so faces with more spots weigh less.
  — Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 6 Oct. 2020
• If the two schools are combined, Sparkman climbs to number three on the list.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 16 Aug. 2019
• It was taken apart and the stones were numbered and put back together.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2018
• Because that was about being numbered and briefed and ...
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 9 May 2018
• The same blue Hannah used to number her cassette tapes?
  — Victoria Rodriguez, Seventeen, 20 May 2018
• With the pandemic over, crowds should again number in the hundreds of thousands for the week.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2022
• May the latter be a glimmer of hope that his State of the Unions might be numbered.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2019
• Your days of having to drive or walk to get your Starbucks fix are numbered.
  — Sabrina Rojas Weiss, refinery29.com, 25 July 2019
• Each seat is numbered, so servers know where to go with the food ordered in-theater.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• There are four species of the virus — numbered dengue 1 through 4.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 26 Dec. 2019
• The days of having a dictionary on your bookshelf are numbered.
  — Nichol Castro, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023
• And to her award-winning cookbooks, which numbered nine.
  — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2019
• Windows and doors are numbered in the district’s schools, and visitors have to be buzzed in.
  — Erica L. Green and Manny Fernandez, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
• Members receive their own mug, which is numbered and signed by the member.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 1 Dec. 2019
• The days of cottonwood trees in Highland's parks and along its streets are numbered.
  — Craig Lyons, Post-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2018
• Those tickets, which numbered in the hundreds, sold out in a matter of minutes.
  — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• There are four serotypes of dengue, numbered 1 through 4.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 11 July 2023
• And modern wolves are just hanging on, while dogs might number a billion.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2021
• By the time of my visit, their last group had numbered around 25.
  — Aaron Cantú, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2019
• After a seven-year wait since the last numbered game in the series, that's almost enough on its own.
  — Sam MacHkovech and Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 14 June 2019
• The first batch, mixed from scratch and rolled out by hand, will number about 50.
  — Wyatt Williams, Bon Appetit, 18 Apr. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024