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.
• My job all day long is to quantify minutia.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
• Now, a new study quantifies the health impacts of all that smoke.
  — Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
• 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
• Hard to quantify the buzz here in Chapel Hill.
  — Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
• That’s hard to quantify, but that’s of value.
  — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026
• The cost of a day’s work at war is hardly ever quantified.
  — Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
• Attempts to quantify this burden go back at least a decade.
  — Robert Muggah, The Conversation, 9 Dec. 2025
• Yet how prevalent those delays are can be hard to quantify.
  — Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
• The risk was thought to be too large, too unpredictable to quantify.
  — Evan Ratliff, Wired, 16 June 2020
• The study did more than quantify the income gains from glasses.
  — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
• The study is among the first to quantify the scale of plastic waste linked to the health crisis.
  — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2021
• Toughness can be tough to quantify, but there are telltale signs.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 16 Dec. 2021
• Those rights had to be quantified in court, which took nearly 35 years.
  — Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2024
• 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
• LinkedIn is now building tools to quantify it.
  — Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
• There is a financial cost that is easy to quantify and easy to overlook.
  — George Heller, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2026
• But the result of making those prices public is so far hard to quantify.
  — Julie Appleby, NPR, 19 Dec. 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
• The firm will help quantify what the actual cost of opioid abuse has been.
  — Catalina Righter, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 2 Oct. 2019
• Kids give up a lot to attend these programs, and much of the cost is harder to quantify.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 19 Apr. 2026
• 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
• The first is to quantify whether the potential reward is worth the risk.
  — Francesca Cassidy, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
• Kidd’s work has been described as expansive in ways that are hard to quantify.
  — Alexis Oatman, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
• Since then, the term has become so much a part of the lexicon that there are folks who try to quantify it.
  — Fatma Tanis, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026
• The brand is working to quantify that value in its products.
  — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2025
• But in terms of quantifying their joy, the raise has about the same effect, Killingsworth says.
  — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2024
• What if a simple blood test could quantify your anxiety and match you to the right treatment?
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 17 Mar. 2023