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 challenge is how to quantify and harness that tilt, and that is where this ETF comes in.
  — Chris Taylor, wsj.com, 7 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• Mitchell has started every game this season, and his impact on the team is hard to quantify.
  — Ben Steele, Journal Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2022
• 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
• The official could not quantify the number of calls or emails received.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 13 July 2022
• Hipness is hard to quantify, but there is one thing about his vision for the Big 12 that is easier to put a number on.
  — Laine Higgins, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
• One other way to quantify just how dreary it’s been: the number of rainy days that have forced people inside.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• The plan was inspired by the aftermath of the 2010 Schultz fire and studies that quantified the risks if another large fire broke out in the area, which could flood downtown Flagstaff.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2024
• Data then can be used to quantify and track that decision.
  — Glenn Hopper, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• And there’s a danger that the latter can tarnish the beloved nature of the classics or characters, although that can be hard to quantify.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2023
• But this research will merely quantify what many doctors already know: The ER has changed.
  — Brett Kelman, CNN, 16 Feb. 2023
• There’s no nationwide benchmark for how often these mix-ups happen, and Wenger appears to be among the first to quantify them.
  — Mohana Ravindranath, STAT, 14 Dec. 2023
• Last year, Kogan released the early results of a study trying to quantify what students might have lost in those trade-offs.
  — Charles Homans, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• However, this new study—published in Diabetes Care on August 28—used machine learning to quantify how the age of a person’s brain compared to their chronological age.
  — Lauryn Higgins, Health, 3 Oct. 2024
• These factors, although harder to quantify right away, provide a robust ROI formula, demonstrating that the long-term advantages of automation can be just as significant as the short-term benefits.
  — Charles Crouchman, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024