How to Use quantify in a Sentence

quantify

verb

• Doctors have quantified the risks of smoking cigarettes.
• It is impossible to quantify the number of websites on the Internet.
• It is difficult to quantify intelligence.
• The study is among the first to quantify the scale of plastic waste linked to the health crisis.
  — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2021
• The 911 center, though, hasn’t been able to quantify the number of those calls.
  — oregonlive, 26 June 2020
• The lack of testing has made the Covid-19 toll even harder to quantify.
  — Jason Douglas, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2020
• What's at risk may be hard to quantify in numbers but the loss would be great.
  — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 23 Jan. 2022
• The challenge is how to quantify and harness that tilt, and that is where this ETF comes in.
  — Chris Taylor, wsj.com, 7 Nov. 2023
• But in terms of quantifying their joy, the raise has about the same effect, Killingsworth says.
  — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2024
• Sticky days and muggy days can be classed and quantified as those with dew points of 65 or above.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2023
• Still, Gates said, some of the impacts of the pandemic are hard to quantify.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 14 Sep. 2020
• The risk was thought to be too large, too unpredictable to quantify.
  — Evan Ratliff, Wired, 16 June 2020
• Those rights had to be quantified in court, which took nearly 35 years.
  — Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2024
• The study did more than quantify the income gains from glasses.
  — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
• The company, which released the film, does not quantify the receipts or the record.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 27 June 2024
• The team could quantify the white spruce in the region with satellite imagery that shows how the tree line has changed over time.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
• But there is a value in this that may be harder to quantify.
  — Cnn Staff, CNN, 8 June 2020
• And no one knows how to quantify any of it with precision.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2021
• Whether or not a sperm’s movement is the most efficient way to swim is hard to quantify.
  — Courtney Sexton, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2020
• At the very least, social media reach is easy to quantify.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 2 Apr. 2021
• For one, this is hard to quantify, as the majority of Latinos in Texas are young and can’t vote yet.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• The short-term is a little easier to quantify, with DraftKings stock up 8% on the news.
  — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
• Yet nowhere does Leonardo quantify the location of the man’s navel.
  — Steven Strogatz, New York Times, 16 June 2025
• But the result of making those prices public is so far hard to quantify.
  — Julie Appleby, NPR, 19 Dec. 2024
• The impact of Covid-19 on the flight-free movement is also hard to quantify, says Hughes.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 10 Nov. 2021
• Their rights were quantified and settled via the courts in the 1960s, at a time when the tribe didn’t have federal recognition.
  — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 5 July 2023
• What’s less clear at this point is how to even define those effects, let alone quantify them.
  — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2022
• What if a simple blood test could quantify your anxiety and match you to the right treatment?
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 17 Mar. 2023
• Sports have scores, statistics, data that can quantify an athlete in flow.
  — Brandon Sneed, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2025
• Their essays were then judged and quantified by humans and AI—this isn’t a group of scientists who necessarily have it out for the technology.
  — James Folta, Literary Hub, 24 June 2025