How to Use countable in a Sentence

countable

adjective

• Again, space-time seemed to have a countable number of microstates.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
• The last countable components that Ms. Wexler walked me through did not quite add up to $30 billion.
  — Emily Flitter, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2022
• This is because any countable—or finite—set is a null set.
  — Martin Goldstern, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2021
• Fewer is for whole, countable nouns like M&Ms on a table.
  — WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023
• Friday’s game against the Mets marked Trout’s first time playing at Citi Field for a countable ballgame.
  — Zach Helfand, latimes.com, 19 May 2017
• There must be two days off each week and a maximum of 20 hours of countable activities per week.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 4 Aug. 2020
• The set of natural numbers is countable, as is any group of objects that can be placed in an infinite list.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2019
• An apeirogon is a polygon with an infinite yet countable number of sides.
  — Julie Orringer, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2020
• And if the weight of the current five-game losing streak wasn’t heavy enough, now there are these rumblings that Nagy’s days as coach are numbered, perhaps even countable on one hand.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 24 Nov. 2021
• One was Leka of Albania — a pretender to the throne, but countable nonetheless.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Jan. 2018
• The Big East stipulates that teams must have at least seven scholarship players and one countable coach for games to proceed.
  — Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 4 Jan. 2022
• According to Big East policy, games will be canceled if a team cannot field at least seven players and one countable coach.
  — Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 31 Dec. 2021
• The program must also limit its hours of practice and its number of countable coaches during sessions.
  — USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2020
• According to conference guidelines, each team must have at least six scholarship players and one countable coach available for a game to be played.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Jan. 2022
• Moving forward, if a team can’t field at least seven scholarship players and one countable coach, the game will be canceled and the conference will attempt to reschedule it.
  — Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 23 Dec. 2021
• In the press box, teams’ media relations staffs pass out reams of paper with every countable metric, from snap counts for players to a chronology of every play during the game.
  — Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2022
• Data are just a bunch of qualitative conclusions arranged in a countable way.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2021
• Oregon is now projected to have 86 countable scholarship players, one over the limit.
  — oregonlive, 23 Jan. 2021
• Friedman and Stanley then wondered: What other classes of countable objects are Borel complete?
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2021
• For instance , any school staff member may participate in recruiting calls between a countable coach and a recruit.
  — Cecil Hurt, The Courier-Journal, 7 May 2020
• Endpoints such as hospitalization and death tend to be binary and countable.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2023
• According to Day, the Buckeyes are now allowed up to 20 countable team activities per week, including on-field workouts.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2020
• However, the Big East announced Thursday a game would be canceled if one school had fewer than seven scholarship players and one countable coach available.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2021
• Since either one of these is the opposite of the other, that is, to be one - to exist in a minimally countable way - is the opposite of being zero, being nothing or not existing.
  — Amir Husain, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• For example, the natural numbers (1, 2, 3, and so on) are a countable infinity.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Aug. 2021
• But right now in Massachusetts, the maximum grant for a family of three in public or subsidized housing with no countable income is only $593 a month.
  — Paul Donato, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2019
• Per Big East policy a conference game will be canceled if a team has fewer than seven scholarship players and one countable coach available.
  — courant.com, 28 Dec. 2021
• The volleyball program was also hit with a Level-2 infraction for countable practice hours under former coach Kaddie Platt.
  — Joseph Duarte, Houston Chronicle, 18 Dec. 2019
• Any school staff member, for example, may participate on recruiting calls between a countable coach and a recruit.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 6 May 2020
• There remains one countable position left on Woodson’s staff, with Yasir Rosemond one possible candidate.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024