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 study is among the first to quantify the scale of plastic waste linked to the health crisis.
  — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2021
• What's at risk may be hard to quantify in numbers but the loss would be great.
  — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 23 Jan. 2022
• 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
• But in terms of quantifying their joy, the raise has about the same effect, Killingsworth says.
  — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Those rights had to be quantified in court, which took nearly 35 years.
  — Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2024
• The study did more than quantify the income gains from glasses.
  — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
• The company, which released the film, does not quantify the receipts or the record.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 27 June 2024
• 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
• And no one knows how to quantify any of it with precision.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2021
• 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
• The impact of Covid-19 on the flight-free movement is also hard to quantify, says Hughes.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 10 Nov. 2021
• 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’s less clear at this point is how to even define those effects, let alone quantify them.
  — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2022
• 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
• According to the authors, this is the first study to quantify the impact of foxes on wildlife in Australia.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2022
• The exact extent of the casualties is hard to quantify, as Ethiopia is one of the hardest places in the world to report from.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 25 Oct. 2022
• This requires defining goals and a plan that uses key metrics to quantify progress along the way.
  — Alfredo Ramirez, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• Mitchell has started every game this season, and his impact on the team is hard to quantify.
  — Ben Steele, Journal Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2022
• Toughness can be tough to quantify, but there are telltale signs.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 16 Dec. 2021
• 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
• What’s more important — though harder to quantify — is that the site has lost the power to drive news cycles.
  — Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
• Kidd’s work has been described as expansive in ways that are hard to quantify.
  — Alexis Oatman, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
• The true measure and impact of her life would be difficult to quantify.
  — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
• In addition, as with smart cities, there is always the concern that not all facets of the urban landscape can be quantified and plugged into a model.
  — Seydina Fall, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
• But court records show no attempt by St. Peter’s to quantify the problem beyond its initial scramble to detoxify patients.
  — J. David McSwane, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Dec 2024