How to Use quantity in a Sentence

quantity

noun

• The wine is made in small quantities.
• The family buys food in quantity.
• The boss is worried about quantity as well as quality.
• The quantity c is the length of the longest side, called the hypotenuse.
  — Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
• The quantities aren’t that high, so this one should have a short life on shelves.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Apr. 2023
• The size, quantity, and shape of the housing follows from there.
  — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 15 Mar. 2023
• With such a large quantity of things open for all to see, make sure to group like items to keep the look streamlined and tidy.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2022
• The strips are cheap, about $1 to $3.50 apiece, depending on the quantity bought.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 9 Mar. 2022
• They are now grown in lesser quantities and take longer to move out of the country.
  — Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• It still is found in Afghanistan, but it’s found in much higher quantities right now in Ukraine.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2024
• The swim shad is one of the few lures that can be counted on for quantity of fish and quality fish.
  — Jimmy Fee, Field & Stream, 13 Sep. 2023
• Furthermore, the quantity of food on each plate is small even relative to the size of the plate.
  — Anand Giridharadas, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
• At first, this took the form of a resource tax, levied based on quantity produced.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2022
• But the sheer quantity involved was not the whole story.
  — Bogdan Costea, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
• Much of the pollution comes from the mass quantities of oil refineries on the Gulf Coast.
  — Justin Klawans, theweek, 25 Jan. 2024
• The strangest aspect of these fires, other than their quantity, is their calm.
  — The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
• Investors expect the first hikes in March and are wary about the pace and quantity of rate increases in 2022.
  — Damian J. Troise, ajc, 7 Feb. 2022
• And the serving size reflects the quantity of one serving.
  — Jonathan Purtell, Verywell Health, 25 Nov. 2024
• The quality of recruits is still there even if the quantity isn’t.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 20 Dec. 2022
• The whole structure of an overseas studio is built on mass and quantity and speed.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 6 July 2022
• The quantity of minerals that will have to be mined is mind-boggling.
  — Lloyd Alter, Treehugger, 25 Jan. 2023
• Before the war, the same quantity of formula would have cost $1,680.
  — Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
• What makes a makeup kit good isn't quantity, but the quality of the products used.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 20 Apr. 2023
• The sale prices were only valid for that day, and quantities were limited.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
• Major League Baseball easily leads the way in terms of the sheer quantity of games on the docket.
  — Xl Media, cleveland, 14 June 2022
• Toum is a year-round fixture at my house, but the quantity seems to triple during the holidays.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
• Discounts vary on size and quantity — this pair of queen-sized pillows boasts the steepest sale, slashed by $82 at the moment.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
• It can be used in jest, connecting the term to the ability to consume large quantities of food.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Parents, 24 July 2024
• Buying higher quantities provides a price break, which adds up quickly.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2025
• His new Digi-Key Corp. would purchase these reels, break the pack and sell parts in small quantities, first through a mail-order catalog several inches thick and then online.
  — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 24 Apr. 2025