How to Use number in a Sentence

number

1 of 2 noun

• The page numbers are on the top corner of each page.
• Think of a number between one and one hundred.
• Never give out your credit card number to anyone over the phone.
• I'm waiting for the number 3 bus.
• What's the account number on your electricity bill?
• Both of these numbers were down from over half in the late 1950s.
  — Kenneth S. Baer, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2017
• On the field, there will be a number of stark contrasts.
  — Joshua Robinson and Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
• That first number was crucial in setting the tone for the night.
  — Jhoni Jackson, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2023
• That said, there will be a number of new faces in the sequel as well.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 29 June 2022
• Tad claims those texts didn’t come from him and that’s not his number.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 24 Jan. 2022
• Here is a tribute to just a small number of them, in their own words.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• Under the numbers, there are nine stars to represent the lives lost in the crash.
  — Rusty Simmons, SFChronicle.com, 7 Feb. 2020
• Their numbers made sense to them, but not to anyone else.
  — Mary Williams Walsh, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2018
• And the last number is for the number of height or presence channels.
  — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 17 Nov. 2023
• There’s strength in numbers and there’s strength in a unified voice.
  — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 13 July 2018
• That number cannot grow very large, though, as that would drive atoms away.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2018
• The prison cells hold double the number of men the space was intended for.
  — Brice Laine, CNN, 7 Apr. 2021
• The passing game has struggled and there have been a number of drops.
  — Clarence E. Hill Jr., star-telegram, 14 June 2018
• In the best-case scenario, someone will text back with a name and a phone number.
  — Erin Delmore, NBC News, 20 Aug. 2021
• Each session hones in on different parts of the body, and the number of reps vary.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Nov. 2021
• Submit your full name along with your city and state, email, and phone number.
  — Country Living, 4 Jan. 2019
• There are a number of tea options, though, not all are in stock right now.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 15 Dec. 2022
• There are any number of examples of how bad the league has been on the issue of race.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 23 May 2021
• If the number had gone down, I probably would’ve been locked out of the edit.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Nov. 2023
• Few people want to be thought of as just a number, let alone a fraction.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
• The recent death brings the state’s total number of deaths to seven.
  — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 30 July 2020
• But overall, the report isn’t as rosy as the headline number seems.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 28 Oct. 2022
• On the website, there is no email or phone number listed.
  — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2021
• Moving the company’s headquarters from Davie to a potential larger location in Hialeah — and increasing the number of employees — is also in the plans.
  — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2024
• When the vehicle did not stop, the officers got the license plate number and went to a location associated with it, according to the authorities.
  — Jolie Lash, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2024

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number

2 of 2 verb

• Each print is signed and numbered by the artist.
• He numbers her with the other great poets of the time.
• The team's coach bought all the players numbered jerseys.
• The animal, which once numbered in the millions, is now extinct.
• She numbers and arranges the photographs according to when they were taken.
• By the end of the war, Tuve’s staff would number over 1,000.
  — Jamie Holmes, Wired, 4 Aug. 2020
• There are four species of the virus — numbered dengue 1 through 4.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 26 Dec. 2019
• The combos are numbered on the menu, and the com tam dishes go all the way to No.
  — Kate Washington, sacbee, 9 Feb. 2018
• On Friday, the app had dropped from the top 10 free apps on the App Store to number 14.
  — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023
• The first batch, mixed from scratch and rolled out by hand, will number about 50.
  — Wyatt Williams, Bon Appetit, 18 Apr. 2017
• The first batch, mixed from scratch and rolled out by hand, will number about 50.
  — Wyatt Williams, Bon Appetit, 18 Apr. 2017
• There are four serotypes of dengue, numbered 1 through 4.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 11 July 2023
• By the time of my visit, their last group had numbered around 25.
  — Aaron Cantú, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2019
• May the latter be a glimmer of hope that his State of the Unions might be numbered.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2019
• If the two schools are combined, Sparkman climbs to number three on the list.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 16 Aug. 2019
• Yoon is aiming to take the country to number four by 2027.
  — Time, 13 July 2023
• In other parts of the country, colonies may number in the millions.
  — David Ferry, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• The black dots that number each side are hollow, so faces with more spots weigh less.
  — Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 6 Oct. 2020
• The rocks, which number around 800, are at least a kilometer or more in size.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2023
• The two then needed to organize and number the pages of the papers.
  — Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2020
• Each seat is numbered, so servers know where to go with the food ordered in-theater.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• The same blue Hannah used to number her cassette tapes?
  — Victoria Rodriguez, Seventeen, 20 May 2018
• Season ticket sales, which once numbered in the dozens, have grown to 2,500.
  — James Montague Samuel Aranda, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• With the pandemic over, crowds should again number in the hundreds of thousands for the week.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2022
• Your days of having to drive or walk to get your Starbucks fix are numbered.
  — Sabrina Rojas Weiss, refinery29.com, 25 July 2019
• The Bristol Stool Form Scale is numbered 1–7 and is used to assess how hard or loose stool is.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 24 Oct. 2023
• The days of cottonwood trees in Highland's parks and along its streets are numbered.
  — Craig Lyons, Post-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2018
• The front-loading bobbin is easy to load, thanks to the numbering system on the machine.
  — Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Apr. 2023
• Each event was labeled a Mystery but also numbered to distinguish it on the modern program.
  — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
• Each bottle is numbered by step as a visual application guide.
  — Kate Watson, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024