How to Use sum in a Sentence

sum

1 of 2 verb

• Oh, well, that almost sums it all up, eh? But what about 2023?
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2023
• Beckworth didn’t offer a phrase or word to sum it all up.
  — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 6 Dec. 2021
• But the word that summed Springer up, according to Rashid, was genuine.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 27 Apr. 2023
• The ending of Mayfield’s speech does sum it up pretty well.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2020
• To sum it up, Kenan and Kel are still Kenan and Kel — but without all the lights and cameras on them.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 12 Sep. 2022
• One pleased customer summed this up simply as worth the money.
  — Lauren Levy, Health, 27 Feb. 2023
• Einstein summed it up better; ‘More the knowledge, lesser the ego.
  — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 18 June 2023
• To sum it up in a word, as Locatelli and Lacovich did: Calma.
  — Nina Ruggiero, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2021
• Dodgers catcher Will Smith may have summed it up best, noting that at age 29, Ohtani seems to be hitting his prime.
  — Tim Booth, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
• To sum it up, the best time to take a probiotic is first thing in the morning on an empty stomach.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2022
• That about sums it up for some really simple, easy-to-tie knots and hitches.
  — Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 12 July 2023
• So, to sum things up, Labor of Love doesn’t involve any type of pregnancy.
  — Ariana Brockington, refinery29.com, 22 May 2020
• If bigness is what defines Dallas, then few things sum that up quite like the Cowboys.
  — Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN, 24 Mar. 2022
• To sum it up, every stereo pair and speaker group can be accessed and controlled in the same way as a single speaker.
  — David Nield, Wired, 24 Nov. 2020
• To sum it up in the words of Tzu: Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
  — Morris Kupfer, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• Some have said the lack of a replay review system makes the sport look bad, but Duke coach John Danowski probably summed it up best.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 27 May 2023
• To sum it up in a sentence: Resilience is the ability to manage stress in effective ways.
  — Rachel Goldsmith Turow, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
• Estimates are shown to the nearest dollar; rows or columns may not sum due to rounding.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
• To sum it up from a medical standpoint: Yes, donut pillows can help relieve pain.
  — Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2023
• The total score for each city is calculated by summing the weighted scores for each of these metric.
  — USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
• As the year wraps up, trying to sum it up in Minnesota and U.S. politics means trying to make sense of a messy jumble of cause and effect.
  — Patrick Condon, Star Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
• The candidates had two minutes to make opening remarks, then take questions, then sum it up.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2023
• To sum it up, an emerging body of research indicates that practice doesn’t make perfect.
  — Bryan Nichols, The Conversation, 16 Aug. 2022
• In the photos, Banks smiles, dresses up in a poofy pink dress, draws on herself with crayons and eats a melting ice cream cone as her proud mom sums her feelings up in a lengthy caption.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
• Totals may not sum to 100% as the question allowed for multiple categories to be marked.
  — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2022
• To sum it up: generative A.I. is likely to have the most profound impact on the business world of any technology since the PC.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 12 May 2023
• The Pythagorean theorem provides an equation to calculate the longer side of a right triangle by summing the squares of the other two sides.
  — Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
• To sum it up, Kaley could hardly choke out more than a laugh and knee-slapping reaction for each outfit Andy resurfaced from the early 2000s.
  — Rebecca Norris, Good Housekeeping, 6 May 2022
• To sum it up, AirPods Max are a catchall gadget powered by a tremendous amount of technology inside.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 10 Dec. 2020
• There’s a big splashy video finish that doesn’t exactly sum anything up but provides a sharp crescendo to all the emotional turmoil.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 25 Jan. 2023

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sum

2 of 2 noun

• On the other hand, the same sum stashed in a big bank would only yield a few bucks.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2023
• And those virtues and talents combine to form a whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 8 Apr. 2023
• In sum, the jury considered the case for about two days.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2023
• In sum, this is a far cry from the team’s output through 10 games last season.
  — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 25 Apr. 2024
• This year’s sum was almost twice as much as two years ago.
  — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• These sneakers are not the first to have sold for a staggering sum.
  — Amarachi Orie, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
• In 2011, the trio and Wone’s widow settled for an undisclosed sum.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 18 Mar. 2023
• Comfort: Comfort comes down to the sum of a number of details.
  — Isaiah Freeman-Schub, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2023
• Lil Wayne settled with the record label for an undisclosed sum in 2018.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• Most lottery winners opt for the one-time, lump-sum cash payment.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2023
• Here, each voice works to create something greater than the sum of its parts, which is rare for supergroups.
  — Bobby Olivier, SPIN, 31 Mar. 2023
• The woman sued the CIPP contractor and settled in 2022 for an undisclosed sum.
  — USA Today, 30 Mar. 2023
• That sum places him as the world’s third richest person, according to Bloomberg.
  — Samantha Delouya, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023
• One player will win a life-changing sum; the penalty for losing is death.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• That sum marks the largest week for a rap album by a woman in the 2020s decade, and the biggest for an R&B/hip-hop album by a woman this year.
  — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 17 Dec. 2023
• Altman and his ilk have to talk up a big game in order to get the massive sums of money in order to set up AI.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 23 Mar. 2023
• There won’t be $400 million, or anything close to that sum, left to divide next summer.
  — Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2023
• That sum is a lot for most European clubs but not for aspiring teams in the Premier League.
  — Henry Flynn, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• This process involves vast sums of tax revenue that states are owed but never collect.
  — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2024
• However, a single day includes many parts, and may seem more than the mere arithmetical sum of all of them.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2023
• The biggest, perhaps, is wrangling the vast sums of data required to train a roster of AI models.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2023
• But the last decade’s low interest rates led to growing sums being poured into tech start-ups.
  — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
• Cicadas can't harm humans, pets, or livestock, but produce an extreme sound when there's a greater sum of them.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 22 Apr. 2024
• In sum, these communities, many of them low-income, struggle with some of the worst impacts of car culture.
  — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2024
• Since these trees are so networked and interconnected, the sum is greater than its parts and isn’t easy to quantify.
  — Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2024
• Swift has four more albums that have sold at least 1 million each, lifting her sum of million-selling albums to a lucky 13.
  — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2024
• The Goldmans were awarded a judgment of $33.5 million, though Simpson only ever paid a small fraction of the sum.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024
• The swag given out at this year’s Oscars could end up costing recipients quite a hefty sum.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2023
• Even still, Fox could likely absorb a sum in the billions without bankrupting its business.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023
• The 14-figure sums can be broken down into three types of travel transactions, Bloomberg notes.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024