How to Use sum total in a Sentence

sum total

noun

• The sum total of the DNA contained in the 23 pairs of chromosomes is the genome.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 Feb. 2015
• The sum total of all these economies accounts for more than 17% of the global GDP.
  — Akshat Rathi, Quartz, 27 June 2019
• The sum total of the impact of chronic stress can add up to a shorter life.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 10 Mar. 2022
• The sum total of the Heat’s free agent spending suggested that might be the case.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• But the sum total of its parts amounts to far more than a music store and a concert venue.
  — Julia Wick, latimes.com, 8 June 2019
• Netflix did not reveal the sum total of the deal, but it has been known to shell out a lot for big names.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 21 May 2018
• So, the sum total benefit to the Prime over the normal Prius is rather meager.
  — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2018
• Leadership is, in many ways, the sum total of a person’s soft skills.
  — Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 24 May 2021
• Without them, the pop star is only the sum total of what the public already knows about them.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2017
• More than one shed is allowed if the sum total does not exceed 144 square feet.
  — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• The plays resulted in a short completion and a sack, the sum total being a loss of one yard.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2021
• The sum total is a mix of ideas that smack of desperation and panic.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2019
• These three figureheads take up a lot of narrative but are hardly the sum total of the book.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 July 2022
• And that was the sum total of his efforts on economic populism.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2020
• Tax cuts seem to be the sum total of the Republican fiscal agenda, for now at least.
  — Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2017
• And that was the sum total of sustenance that was available to their family.
  — Eugene Scott, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
• Before snowball Earth, the most complex life—and the sum total of over 3.5 billion years of evolution—seems to have been a sponge.
  — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 24 Sep. 2021
• But the sum total of its gliding abstractions is a mite brainless.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• That’s pretty much the sum total of my impressions from this trailer.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 13 June 2020
• This was the sum total of its imprint on the English national story.
  — John Phipps, The Economist, 16 Apr. 2021
• This small act of ingestion was more impactful than the sum total of your career will be.
  — Jake Goldwasser, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2022
• The sum total of our local and state elections can be just as crucial as the national contests—if not more so.
  — Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• The individual parts still work, but the sum total is stuck in neutral.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 28 July 2019
• As a result, spending time with him means witnessing the near sum total of New York’s fund-raisers.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2018
• But with the Expansion, Callisto is the sum total of the reporting process, and that makes the next steps much more nebulous.
  — Lux Alptraum, The Verge, 17 Apr. 2018
• The sum total of his first year of college basketball was seven games, 84 minutes, 20 points.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 July 2022
• This is far from the sum total of alcohol’s negative effects—even just on sleep.
  — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2017
• That’s the sum total of times my father was outwardly impatient with me.
  — Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2019
• And if 51 Republican senators agree to that and talk the president into it, that could be the sum total of this process.
  — CBS News, 29 Dec. 2019
• All money is, really, is the sum total of a person’s choices.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 30 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024