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Uncountable in a sentence

Uncountable meaning

  1. So many as to be incapable of being counted.
  2. Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
  3. That cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and therefore usually takes no plural form. Example: information.

Using Uncountable

  • The main meaning on this page is: So many as to be incapable of being counted. | Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof. | That cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and therefore usually takes no plural form. Example: information.
  • In the example corpus, uncountable often appears in combinations such as: an uncountable, is uncountable, uncountable set.

Context around Uncountable

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

possibly 2× feed 1× put 1× ate 1× down 1× perpetrated 1×

Often after:

set 2× uses 1× people 1× numbers 1× nouns 1× pounds 1× photos 1× clouds 1× stairs 1× works 1×

Sentence patterns with Uncountable

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a possibly uncountable directed set 1× a possibly uncountable family of 1× and down uncountable stairs as 1× beers but uncountable in he 1× but an uncountable product of 1× countable and uncountable nouns unlike 1× countable and uncountable uses for 1× dark ate uncountable clouds of 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a consequence is 1× a countable product 1× a net is 1× a set x 1× by then james 1× consider we throw 1×

Common sentence endings:

a few passengers 1× a topological space 1× and cultural criticism 1× be first countable 1× candidates into power 1× clean everything was 1×

Words around Uncountable

Just before it in the word index:

uncountability 2 uncosted 2 uncorrupted 7 uncorroded 2 uncorroborated 10 uncorrelated 30

Just after it in the word index:

uncountably 14 uncounted 32 uncouple 2 uncoupled 8 uncoupling 17 uncouth 28

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaryan 58 acrimony 58 akash 58 akp 58 albus 58 amphibian 58

Corpus analysis for Uncountable

  • In this selection, "uncountable" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, possibly, feed, put, set, uses and people stand out and add context to how "uncountable" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a possibly uncountable directed set and a possibly uncountable family of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "uncountable" sits close to words such as aaryan, acrimony and akash, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with uncountable

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

There are uncountable photos of Lord Ram on the internet. (10 words)

Consider we throw away enough food every day to feed uncountable people. (12 words)

A net is a function from a (possibly uncountable ) directed set to a topological space. (15 words)

Longer example sentences

From being an Emergency Medical Services Responder with the Kohler Company Rescue Squad to going up and down uncountable stairs as he helped people with their moving, Jon was always there for his family and others. (36 words)

By then, James’ output had already reached the prodigious mark: 12 books still in print, among them five volumes of memoir, three poetry books, eight volumes of essays and uncountable works of journalism and cultural criticism. (36 words)

It is under his leadership that the RSF has been involved in or perpetrated uncountable raids, murders, rapes, abductions, robberies, and all manner of violence, especially in Darfur and the Three Areas. (32 words)

Example sentences (20)

Examples The best known example of an uncountable set is the set R of all real numbers ; Cantor's diagonal argument shows that this set is uncountable.

Many nouns have both countable and uncountable uses; for example, beer is countable in "give me three beers", but uncountable in "he likes beer".

Properties * If an uncountable set X is a subset of set Y, then Y is uncountable.

Consider we throw away enough food every day to feed uncountable people.

For decades tens of thousands of activists and campaigners have put uncountable numbers of hours into campaigning to get left wing Democratic candidates into power.

The above examples show that ‘some’ works with both countable and uncountable nouns – unlike ‘a few/few’ that goes with only countable (a few passengers).

The optics of spraying a fountain of uncountable pounds of poop, basically, towards the object of your frustration reads pretty clearly.

There are uncountable photos of Lord Ram on the internet.

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We rode every roller coaster in the day and the dark, ate uncountable clouds of cotton candy, and generally marveled at how clean everything was.

While also ballroom dancing with Graham at Harold Clowes, they both made an uncountable number of friends over those many many years.

From being an Emergency Medical Services Responder with the Kohler Company Rescue Squad to going up and down uncountable stairs as he helped people with their moving, Jon was always there for his family and others.

I have no doubt that as he drove around the world for the better part of the past decade he met and bonded with an uncountable number of fortunate people.

Shockingly, she adds: "The amount of times I've been approached for escorting offers is uncountable".

By then, James’ output had already reached the prodigious mark: 12 books still in print, among them five volumes of memoir, three poetry books, eight volumes of essays and uncountable works of journalism and cultural criticism.

It is under his leadership that the RSF has been involved in or perpetrated uncountable raids, murders, rapes, abductions, robberies, and all manner of violence, especially in Darfur and the Three Areas.

The number of calls and text messages I receive in a day for one assistance or the other is uncountable.

A consequence is that any uniform structure can be defined as above by a (possibly uncountable) family of pseudometrics (see Bourbaki: General Topology Chapter IX §1 no. 4).

A countable product of second countable spaces is second countable, but an uncountable product of second countable spaces need not even be first countable.

A net is a function from a (possibly uncountable ) directed set to a topological space.

A set X is uncountable if and only if any of the following conditions holds: * There is no injective function from X to the set of natural numbers.

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Common combinations with uncountable

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "uncountable" in a sentence?
An example: "Examples The best known example of an uncountable set is the set R of all real numbers ; Cantor's diagonal argument shows that this set is uncountable." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "uncountable" from authentic English texts.
What does "uncountable" mean?
Uncountable means: So many as to be incapable of being counted.
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