Example Sentences

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It would become TV’s longest-running game show and the last on a broadcast network of what in TV’s early days had numbered dozens.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 26, 2023

Wickham says this is “fabulous news for this large, quiet and beautiful cockatoo,” which just 20 years before had numbered only 110 individuals.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2021

As a teenager at Mount Vernon, she had numbered as one of hundreds of African Americans enslaved by Washington and his wife on their plantation.

From Salon • Jun. 28, 2020

Bison squeezed through a perilously small genetic bottleneck in the late 1800s with the hunting and extermination of the massive animals that had numbered in the tens of millions.

From Washington Times • Nov. 3, 2019

Someone had numbered the block out of order, and the building’s paint was peeling, but 544 was the only home Cat had ever known.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn