How to Use whole number in a Sentence

whole number

noun

• Earnings are rounded to the nearest whole number.
  — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 1 May 2026
• Gut health is complex, and can change with age, shifts in lifestyle, and a whole number of other factors.
  — Andrea Muraskin, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026
• But as the stylebook notes, a workweek or other labor schedule could be viewed in whole numbers.
  — WSJ, 27 Nov. 2023
• All projections are rounded to the nearest whole number.
  — Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
• Fill measuring cups and spoons with water or flour to introduce your kids to whole numbers and fractions.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 23 Aug. 2023
• Cantor has already challenged what seems like common sense with infinite sets of whole numbers.
  — Big Think, 25 Nov. 2025
• There's a whole number of experts from all countries around the world participating in this.
  — Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2023
• Some positions are listed as not whole numbers because of part time employees.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 30 May 2024
• Integers are just the whole numbers, plus the negative whole numbers and zero.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 June 2023
• The trick is to choose some number c² so that there are a whole bunch of pairs of whole numbers a and b such that a² + b² = c².
  — ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026
• An irrational number is one that cannot be expressed by a fraction of integers, or whole numbers.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2018
• Data in the thousands were rounded to whole numbers while numbers in the millions were rounded to the first decimal point.
  — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
• Percentages are based on the number of respondents to each question and rounded to the nearest whole number.
  — Tom Plaut, The Enquirer, 10 Nov. 2022
• On the magnitude scale, each increase of one whole number translates to 32 times more energy.
  — CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
• Percentages are based on number of respondents to each question and rounded to the nearest whole number.
  — Frank P. Leggio Jr., Cincinnati.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• Two and a half millennia ago, the Pythagoreans held as a core belief that every number is the ratio of two whole numbers.
  — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
• Remember, after 100 years, the calendar still isn’t off by a whole number.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2012
• Remember, after 100 years, the calendar still isn't off by a whole number.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2012
• And Cantor demonstrates that the set of whole numbers cannot be aligned in one-to-one correspondence with the real numbers.
  — Big Think, 25 Nov. 2025
• The set of whole numbers (0, 1, 2, 3…) is the same size as the set of fractions, but smaller than the set of real numbers.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 18 Dec. 2025
• Estimated earnings are rounded to the nearest whole number and assume the rate remains constant for one year.
  — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 1 May 2026
• Each whole number increase — from, say, 3 to 4, or 6 to 7 — is a tenfold increase in amplitude.
  — Madalyn Amato, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2021
• As Wired reports, there are a whole number of different ways to do so, with varying degrees of intensity.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2015
• Hippasus was a member of the Pythagorean brotherhood, a sect that held that the world is structured by whole numbers and their ratios.
  — Amir Alexander, WSJ, 7 June 2019
• The infinity of rational numbers is the same as the infinity of whole numbers.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 June 2023
• But workers who are freelance, on temporary contracts, or in part-time employment register in the headcount as less than a whole number.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
• Going up one whole number on the scale indicates the ground motion recorded by seismic equipment increased by a factor of 10.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
• For a² + b² = c², the consecutive whole numbers of 3, 4, and 5 are the only ones that work.
  — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 18 Sep. 2025
• For instance, mathematicians know that most numbers are irrational, meaning that they can’t be written as a fraction of two whole numbers.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 18 Dec. 2025
• All projections and probabilities are rounded to the nearest whole number.
  — Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 8 May 2026