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 challenge is how to quantify and harness that tilt, and that is where this ETF comes in.
  — Chris Taylor, wsj.com, 7 Nov. 2023
• 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 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
• 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
• 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 if a simple blood test could quantify your anxiety and match you to the right treatment?
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 17 Mar. 2023
• The sheriff did not quantify how much cash was found, but said the the theft and fraud investigation was the largest of his career.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 26 July 2023
• The dev should also be able to quantify them in a way that accurately measures the degree to which they are met.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• One other way to quantify just how dreary it’s been: the number of rainy days that have forced people inside.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• And there’s a danger that the latter can tarnish the beloved nature of the classics or characters, although that can be hard to quantify.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2023
• But this research will merely quantify what many doctors already know: The ER has changed.
  — Brett Kelman, CNN, 16 Feb. 2023
• There’s no nationwide benchmark for how often these mix-ups happen, and Wenger appears to be among the first to quantify them.
  — Mohana Ravindranath, STAT, 14 Dec. 2023
• Last year, Kogan released the early results of a study trying to quantify what students might have lost in those trade-offs.
  — Charles Homans, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• The total cost of the Ash Street purchase is difficult to quantify because the city has financed most of the acquisition.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024
• By explaining the cost of a breach and why a zero-trust strategy would save them money in the long run, the C-suite can quantify the value of the investment.
  — Anudeep Parhar, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• For nearly a decade, Snyder has been trying to quantify human health.
  — David Ferry, Men's Health, 7 Feb. 2023
• The number of gowns, tiaras and accessories are almost impossible for the duo to quantify.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 June 2023
• Erin Clark/Globe Staff The psychological effect from the fires will be harder to quantify.
  — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2023
• The extent of the increase in transmission is difficult to quantify.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
• After the Supreme Court’s 1908 decision confirming tribes’ right to water, two paths emerged to quantify and settle the amount and details of those rights.
  — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 5 July 2023
• This in spite of being the one where performance is arguably easiest to quantify.
  — Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
• Leadership and toughness can be hard to quantify, but there is no question that the departures of Williams and Marcus Smart have left a void in those areas.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
• Sony made no effort to quantify the impact of the twin strikes by actors and screenwriters in Hollywood.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 8 Aug. 2023
• Researchers are now attempting to quantify how much carbon the fish in one of the planet’s most unexplored ecosystems are cycling from the ocean’s surface to the deep sea.
  — WIRED, 9 Dec. 2023
• So the second step is to quantify the pollster's influence on its polls' distance from the average.
  — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 25 Jan. 2024
• What the team needed was a way to quantify all of the energy conversion that wasn’t described by density and pressure.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2023
• This means that, potentially, the ICD is one of the most powerful tools to properly quantify the impact of climate change on health.
  — Ashley Ward, STAT, 16 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024