How to Use the sum of in a Sentence

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• In the end, the sum of the parts were greater than the whole.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2023
• The whole was always greater than the sum of the parts.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2024
• So that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 28 June 2023
• But one hopes that the shame isn’t the sum of the story.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 18 June 2023
• But as with the best stories, the truth is more than the sum of its parts.
  — Anna Washenko, Ars Technica, 20 June 2024
• For us, clearly the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
  — Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Apr. 2024
• The axis of the sanctioned will be more than the sum of its parts.
  — Hanna Notte, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2023
• The record is hopefully the total of more than the sum of the parts.
  — Jason Pettigrew, SPIN, 19 Apr. 2023
• The number in the middle is the sum of three numbers on the side.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• Now this is a recipe truly greater than the sum of its parts.
  — Michelle Huneven, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
• And the sum of the numbers in the Chiefs' rival teams name is (drumroll) 4+9=13.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2024
• Get $200 in free bets and the sum of your cash winnings if your team wins.
  — cleveland, 2 Oct. 2022
• This leaves some songs feeling less than the sum of their parts.
  — Paul Thompson, Vulture, 20 June 2023
• Sometimes the whole is worth more than the sum of the parts, and that's the secret of this Passat.
  — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
• The filling becomes much greater than the sum of its parts.
  — Chandler Boese, Kansas City Star, 18 Jan. 2024
• Even more rarely, the sum of two rich numbers is rich again.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 28 July 2023
• The Legacy ends up being far less than the sum of its parts.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 4 Aug. 2023
• There is no easy way to explain the sum of Google’s knowledge.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2023
• The group is more than the sum of its current number of fighters.
  — Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2024
• 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
• Certain drinks become more than the sum of their parts.
  — M. Carrie Allan, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
• In some yet-to-be-determined way, our whole is more than the sum of our parts.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 12 Nov. 2023
• The total pay shown is the sum of gross pay on state worker pay stubs for each year.
  — Sacramento Bee Staff, Sacramento Bee, 24 Jan. 2024
• This line passes through the middle of some slice of the pizza: The number of the slice is the sum of the two numbers.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 12 Apr. 2024
• The first is a product of the medical record—the sum of blood tests, X-rays, and urine samples.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2024
• What about the sum of two primes, or primes that form palindromes that read the same forward and backwards?
  — David Szondy, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2024
• Heading into their off week, the Chargers still feel less than the sum of their parts.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
• Descartes asserted that the sum of all the squared curvatures equals half the square of the sum of the curvatures.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
• That is to say, each of their proofs demonstrates that the square of a right triangle’s longest side equals the sum of the squares of the two shorter sides.
  — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
• This glorious Thanksgiving dessert is the sum of tremendously tasty parts: an easy press-in crust made with oats, a custardy pumpkin filling, and a spiced cranberry compote on top.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024