Example Sentences

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He told us body parts were numbered and eventually sent to local laboratories for processing.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

GoPro also announced in April it was cutting 23 percent of its staff, which had numbered 631.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

On the NYSE, new 52-week highs have numbered more than 100 for each of the past two days, and have also outnumbered new lows on those days.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

Excited crowds of visitors formed outside the studio building—by late May they numbered in the thousands.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Taran now saw the attackers numbered about a dozen.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander