How to Use umpteenth in a Sentence

umpteenth

adjective

• This time last year, Tiger Woods shocked the golf world for the umpteenth time.
  — Adam Woodard, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• For the umpteenth time, Kanye pissed off the whole world in 2022 with his spree of antisemitic comments.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
• So instead of watching the same movie for the umpteenth time, help your kids find a new favorite.
  — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 17 July 2023
• Green, for the fourth time this year and for the umpteenth time of this dynasty, lost his cool in such a manner that removed him from the court.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
• Ready to rewatch Hocus Pocus and Hocus Pocus 2 (for the umpteenth time) after this news?
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 5 June 2023
• Now, for the umpteenth time, businesses are ready to get serious.
  — Stefanos Chen, New York Times, 10 July 2023
• For the umpteenth time under Kenny Payne, there is nowhere for the Louisville men's basketball program to go but up.
  — The Courier-Journal, 30 Jan. 2024
• For the umpteenth time during a half-hour interview, Ivy moves his hand just a few inches to grasp his cellphone.
  — Robert N. Jenkins, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Valeria Pototska rolls her eyes and tells her son no for the umpteenth time.
  — Samya Kullab, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023
• But that would likely be the more rote types of work in those fields such as aggregating news articles or rewriting the umpteenth draft of a movie script.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 28 May 2024
• LeBron’s coattails to an umpteenth bought championship with the Lakers.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 9 Mar. 2021
• With that mindset in the age of streaming, why bother to invest the time in new music from emerging artists when fans can listen to that oldie-but-goodie for the umpteenth time?
  — David Chiu, Forbes, 1 July 2022
• The seemingly safer approach is the Bublé strategy: the umpteenth cover of a Christmas standard.
  — Chris Molanphy, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
• May this umpteenth attempt make an actual difference in the real world.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2024
• By and large, the energy and emissions that come from streaming a whole season of Seinfeld for the umpteenth time are lower than purchasing that same season from Best Buy.
  — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022
• This might seem smart, building the umpteenth installment of a franchise around plot elements from an earlier highlight of that franchise.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 17 May 2023
• There are flashes of Wickian irreverence here and there, though setting a violent beatdown to an upbeat pop song loses its charm the umpteenth time around.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
• For the umpteenth time, a three-judge panel on Monday halted pipeline construction even though Congress and President Biden have stripped the court of jurisdiction.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 July 2023
• These are the forever things, the stuff that gets retold for the umpteenth time at family gatherings, celebrated at holidays.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Oct. 2022
• In his own floor speech, Cornyn for the umpteenth time rejected suggestions that the bipartisan proposal infringes the rights of law-abiding citizens.
  — Dallas News, 23 June 2022
• For the umpteenth time in the life of the social networking giant, Facebook is preparing to implement a top-to-bottom overhaul of its signature blue app in the face of a serious competitive threat.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 26 June 2022
• After the umpteenth attempt, with his mother smiling nearby, Cancela sighed after securing a passable knot.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• The Biden Administration on Tuesday canceled tens of billions of more dollars in student debt on the sly by extending its payment and interest moratorium for the umpteenth time.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
• Grunge rock’s most indefatigable missionaries, Melvins, will return this spring with Tarantula Heart, their umpteenth release since the turn of the millennium (or is that umphundredth?).
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024