How to Use umpteen in a Sentence

umpteen

adjective

• Sure, Scheer, his friends, and the umpteen others who love The Room are laughing at Wiseau.
  — Hillary Busis, HWD, 1 Dec. 2017
• It’s been painted umpteen times and there’s a Playboy insignia on it.
  — David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2017
• There are umpteen medications to track, and insurance claims and bills to deal with.
  — Adam Galler, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2021
• Now the town is playing whack-a-mole with news outlets, and there are umpteen new places to drop a little scoop (including here—hint, hint).
  — Rebecca Keegan, VanityFair.com, 2 Feb. 2017
• There are umpteen ways to benefit from such open source initiatives.
  — Deepak Syal, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• There have been umpteen stories about how San Francisco has the lowest percentage of children among the 50 biggest cities in the U.S.
  — Caille Millner, SFChronicle.com, 31 Jan. 2020
• The umpteen changes that go into the bird skull may all owe to paedomorphosis, to one set of molecular changes in the early embryo.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 June 2015
• Vermonters now have 150 miles of new rail across the state, with umpteen rail tiles, switches, and crosses upgraded or replaced.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 27 Dec. 2019
• Now Maxwell Street is quiet, except when a sports bar's umpteen television sets provoke cheers or boos.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2017
• Similar to Halloween, there have been umpteen titles in Wes Craven’s Scream slasher franchise.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2022
• Enterprising types had—and have—umpteen ways to sneak money out, from overpaying for imports to smuggling cash across the border in luggage.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
• With one of the lowest light pollution levels on earth, the Big Bend region has the rarest of dark night skies—which is to say not dark at all, but shining white with bright planets and umpteen constellations.
  — Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2021
• According to the Internet, it was mentioned in one of its umpteen documentaries.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2022
• He and his under-horn facial hair get stuck in umpteen variations of the prototypical Christopher Nolan scene.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2022
• Then there are our kids, our resilient girls raised in a post-9/11 world, whose familiarity with sheltering in place comes from umpteen active shooter drills.
  — S. Mitra Kalita, CNN, 11 Apr. 2020
• There are umpteen apple cakes (Dutch, French, Mecklenburg, Dorset, whole-meal, mincemeat, polenta, caraway) and pages of marmalades.
  — Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 15 June 2021
• The right stick has also been blessed with umpteen possible combos that lift gameplay level beyond other NCAA titles.
  — Erik Malinowski, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2006
• Your co-workers might be confused by your constant fanning, or your need for dressing in umpteen layers and peeling them off at seemingly random times.
  — Lisa Deshantz-Cook, Quartz, 3 May 2021
• Donald Trump today stands unleashed and uncontrolled, with 8,400 hours—a half-million minutes and umpteen tweets—left in his first presidential term.
  — Garrett M. Graff, Wired, 6 Feb. 2020
• If farmers’ fears come to fruition, consumers could see prices go up not only on agricultural products, but also on the umpteen products that hide corn and soybean inputs such as gas.
  — Hallie Detrick, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2018
• And in one, two or umpteen decisions, there exists the potential of conflict with an important stakeholder.
  — Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
• But for now, break out your favorite contour palette, line up your umpteen-step Korean skin-care regimen, and take a trip down Recent Memory Lane.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 13 Dec. 2019
• And for the umpteenth time in the past umpteen years, state and local officials have decided to focus on third-grade reading without doing anything to help school districts improve third-grade reading.
  — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2018
• For starters, the model, which has already become popular in Europe and elsewhere, is based on limiting choice, which might not appeal to shoppers looking for umpteen options.
  — WSJ, 24 Apr. 2021
• In one-brand systems, the sonic picture starts to come into focus in a way that rarely happens when products from umpteen manufacturers are thrown into the blender with the hope of achieving a unified sonic whole.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2022
• The seed bank has cataloged, propagated and conserved ancient vegetable varieties from rare chiles to umpteen varieties of tepary beans.
  — Elaine Glusac, chicagotribune.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• Press umpteen numbers in that automated system, wait a lifetime on hold for a live operator and then get disconnected.
  — Doreen Christensen, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 June 2017
• Treading the path of many business people who enjoy hearing themselves referred to as presidential timber, Mr. Schultz’s way ahead is clear: spend the next umpteen months trying to extend the boomlet that obliging scribes started this week.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 5 June 2018
• These smears resemble widespread allegations that Jokowi is a closet Christian, or has licensed the building of umpteen churches while restricting the construction of mosques.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2018
• Hundreds of companies create data about people on the internet from Google to umpteen obscure little companies.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 1 May 2018

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