How to Use numerical in a Sentence

numerical

adjective
  • The files are in numerical order.
  • The files are organized according to a numerical system.
  • Write down your birth month, date, and year in numerical form.
    Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 16 July 2026
  • The school said race has no numerical weight at any point in the review.
    Nicole Hong, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
  • The bear plan also does not set numerical limits on the species.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Think your time in between will be less of a numerical nightmare?
    Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The goal is to get the eight tiles into numerical order.
    Big Think, 4 Nov. 2025
  • And what about things like shapes or points or geometric things, not just numerical things?
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Line spools up in numerical order from right to left, with the taller spool in the middle or on the left.
    Janna Oberdorf, Parents, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Opt to use a password for your lock screen and choose one that is completely numerical.
    Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • The way to find out how these things move is with a numerical calculation.
    Rhett Allain, Wired, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Here are some of the numerical highlights.
    Vlad Savov, Bloomberg, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The word Chai is the word for life and has a numerical value of 18.
    Diane Owens Prettyman, Austin American-Statesman, 13 Nov. 2024
  • From there, it’s sorted by precinct and placed in numerical order to be counted.
    Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Star Cards come in four tiers, and the numerical gap between tier one and tier four is monstrous.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2017
  • The team used a nine-point scale for grading college prospects, and the verbiage had to match the numerical grade.
    Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 1 Feb. 2022
  • But pace and safety are only in single digits, and race craft has yet to get a numerical score.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 23 June 2020
  • The goal for teams is to lay the cards on a table, grouped by color, in the correct numerical order.
    Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2019
  • And if the color is the value – The numerical values look like this and that.
    Mariette Dichristina, Scientific American, 18 June 2018
  • This is by far the state's biggest numerical loss and also the largest percentage loss.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Yet even with such limited hardware, bees could grasp numerical ideas.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The goal is to slide the tiles around and put them in numerical order or, in some versions, arrange them to form an image.
    Quanta Magazine, 12 Nov. 2019
  • When there’s no numerical advantage, there should be zero risk.
    Arpon Basu, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Ed takes one look at them and announces that there are numerical patterns in the symbols inscribed on the chamber wall.
    Rebecca Iannucci, TVLine, 22 Jan. 2025
  • There has been a lot of numerical wrangling of late about how rarely teams that open seasons poorly advance to the playoffs.
    Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The reasons for the numerical discrepancy, like so many things in life, come down to fuzzy math and random rules.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 13 July 2021
  • The audio is broken into very short chunks (like frames in a video) and turned into numerical features.
    Lutz Finger, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • UConn had 24 assists on 35 field goals, a nice numerical place to be.
    Dom Amore, courant.com, 13 Nov. 2021
  • For each of the questions below, provide a numerical range with the bottom end below your best guess and the high end above your best guess.
    David Yanofsky, Quartz at Work, 6 Sep. 2020
  • And that suggested the bees get the idea of more and fewer, of a numerical series in which one is closer to zero than five.
    James Gorman, New York Times, 7 June 2018

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