How to Use grand total in a Sentence

grand total

noun

• The field of 12 has a grand total of five Grade 1 or Group 1 wins this year.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• That’s a cancelling of points for me, and a grand total of ZERO.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• His grand total: 72 home runs, which is far less than 91 but also etched him in the record books.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• That’s all that happens in the TikTok video, which lasts a grand total of about five seconds.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2024
• Since then, condos in the building have sold for a grand total of more than $1.35 billion.
  — Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful, 9 Aug. 2023
• All in all, the historic indictment brought a grand total of 41 charges against 19 people.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 15 Aug. 2023
• Luciano received a grand total of 21 at-bats after the trade deadline.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
• Adam Driver has played two famous Italians in the past two-ish years, adding up to a grand total of playing … two Italians.
  — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2024
• Chances are your grand total will still cost less than grabbing a pair of espadrilles from Chanel's latest season.
  — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 23 June 2023
• All that hard work dropped the pool’s temperature a grand total of 4 degrees Fahrenheit.
  — Michael Phillis, Chicago Tribune, 30 July 2023
• Odunze returned a grand total of three punts in his college career.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2024
• That’s one point for getting it in three and zero for tying Wordle Bot for a grand total of 1 point x2 for Friday doubles.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• Stone has a grand total of 19 MLB outings under his belt, still barely a year removed from his big-league debut.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
• All that hard work dropped the pool's temperature a grand total of 4 degrees (7 degrees Celsius).
  — Michael Phillis, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
• That’s zero points for guessing in four and zero points for tying Wordle Bot (who guessed slate / pinot / story / stock) for a grand total of zero.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• This, his 49th in the category, makes for a grand total of 54 Oscar nods, including the five he’s received for original song.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• According to the Academy, the late Walt Disney holds the overall record of career nominations, with a grand total of 59.
  — Dan Heching, CNN, 28 Jan. 2024
• He’s started only five games in that period and has a grand total of one interception.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
• Gifts go directly to the charities but are tallied to determine the campaign's grand total.
  — Jodicee Arianna, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
• Tesla has slashed prices a grand total of five times since January 2023 as demand for its vehicles appeared to falter.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 2 May 2023
• California ranked first in number of Spirit Halloween stores with a grand total of 172 and second in number of haunted houses.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2023
• With interest, Chicago’s grand total was $1.57 billion.
  — Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 15 June 2024
• The number of neuromodulator injections (including Botox, Xeomin, and Dysport) was up 9 percent last year, for a grand total of about 9.5 million.
  — Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 25 June 2024
• While many love to point the finger at this discrepancy to a lack of education, a Black woman with a doctoral degree earns a whopping one cent more (for a grand total of 65 cents) compared to a white man who also holds a doctoral degree.
  — Michelle Holder and Anne Price, Essence, 4 Sep. 2023
• Hell, in Maher’s own arena of late-night television, there are a grand total of zero female hosts after Amber Ruffin’s Peacock show was recently downgraded to a series of specials.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• After frittering away a few hundred million dollars, Lordstown has built a grand total of 31 painfully uncompetitive trucks.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2023
• Bradley Beal, Booker and Durant have appeared in only four games together for a grand total of 65 minutes, a lack of continuity that reminded several Clippers of their own struggles to keep their strong rosters healthy in recent seasons.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• It's spiked with a grand total of 72 ingredients meant to plump, firm, and hydrate, including call-outs like antioxidant-rich sea buckthorn oil, moisture-replenishing jojoba oil, and dullness-defying algae extract.
  — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 21 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024