How to Use countdown in a Sentence

countdown

noun

• Now the countdown begins to the next men’s World Cup in 2026.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 19 Dec. 2022
• Here’s how to live stream the 2023 New Year’s Eve countdown and ball drop for free.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2023
• One of the features of the videos is a countdown clock in the upper left hand corner.
  — Anne Easton, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• The Olympics may still be underway, but the countdown to the 2024 US Open is on!
  — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 7 Aug. 2024
• Here’s how to watch or live stream the 2022 New Year’s Eve countdown and ball drop for free.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2022
• The countdown may simply be trolling; trolls have a thing for bridges.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 6 May 2022
• And so the countdown continues: Two more wins get the Celtics to the Finals.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022
• Here is our countdown of the top 15 most ubiquitous songs of the past three months.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2022
• For the second time, Flume has won triple j’s Hottest 100 countdown.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2023
• Apple has a website to help fans keep track of the countdown.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 15 May 2024
• The launch was aborted with 30 seconds left on the countdown clock.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2022
• And the countdown is on: The next drawing is on Friday, August 1.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 3 Aug. 2023
• The countdown to closing had begun with a clearance sale, and the store was mobbed.
  — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2024
• The dripping of the I.V. felt less like a remedy than a countdown.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
• So the metaphor fit, and the D-Day countdown made sense for the episode, which has a very top-of-the-rollercoaster feeling to it.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2022
• The countdown was timed to hit zero at 12:34 a.m. Thursday.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2023
• The countdown clock on the screen was a few seconds behind the actual test.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2023
• Almost done counting the ballots, and the countdown of the top 20 will begin next week.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• The countdown to the rape began on the day she was wounded in a Russian airstrike, Olena says.
  — NBC News, 17 Apr. 2022
• At the bottom of the screen are buttons for power, fan mode, the countdown timer, and settings.
  — PCMAG, 30 June 2024
• The two-year countdown to the convention has now begun.
  — Bill Glauber, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2022
• Well, the countdown clock is up and the next-gen Airwrap is finally here.
  — Andrea Aguila, Glamour, 21 July 2022
• Chicago Sky fans can start the countdown to next season.
  — James Kay, Chicago Tribune, 1 Dec. 2022
• They can be booked through the app, which displays a countdown timer for when each Icon is available.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 3 May 2024
• Ralph Groont pressed Preset 2 to start the next countdown, 18 seconds long.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
• And the top 25 Dodgers of all time countdown continues Tuesday.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
• The videos directed fans to a countdown on the SoyRebelde website.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 22 Jan. 2023
• The countdown has begun, so why not mark every day leading up to Dec. 25 with a treat?
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 24 Nov. 2023
• And so the countdown begins: 131 days until there’s baseball again.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 14 Oct. 2024
• The annual event was rumored to start on Friday, Oct. 11, thanks to a mysterious in-game countdown that appeared earlier this month.
  — Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 12 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024