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Countless


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being counted; not ascertainable; innumerable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Art Fund and countless donations from individuals and groups, this wonderful picture – a masterpiece by any standards – will be enjoyed, free of charge, in the National Portrait Gallery for many generations to come."
  • (2) She devotes countless hours every week to meeting with her lawyer and officials from Russia's Investigative Committee, which raided her flat in early June.
  • (3) According to Newman, with whom Hislop has written TV series, a film and radio programmes, as well as countless jokes for Private Eye, his fogeyism is reflected in his attitude to sex.
  • (4) She had already passed the test: she made countless appearances between 2 February and 14 May, while her treatment was underway, and no one suspected a thing!
  • (5) Trevor Sinclair and Frédéric Kanouté scored, Tomas Repka gave away a penalty and Jermain Defoe missed countless chances.
  • (6) And there are countless white Britons who are unaware of the histories that bind us all together.
  • (7) This is a pattern of confusion, or deliberate deception, repeated in countless cases of missing persons who were later tracked down to Bagram.
  • (8) Legislators, third parties, physicians, and patients alike have spent countless hours in recent years searching for a way to contain rising medical costs.
  • (9) The text offers countless more examples in the same vein.
  • (10) Every month they delay its introduction, carmakers add to the 400,000 premature deaths, and countless respiratory, cardiac and other illnesses that result from air pollution in Europe.
  • (11) Yet he seems to have not just used his plane, but travelled with him on countless occasions and stayed on his luxury yacht.
  • (12) After years of on-and-off e-dating, in which I've met 150-200 women, fallen in love with one and invented extravagant excuses to extricate myself from awkward encounters with countless others, you might think I'd be tired of it all.
  • (13) The cytoplasm of the photoreceptor cells contains countless small Golgi fields, mitochondria, microtubules, multivesicular and multilamellar bodies.
  • (14) That stunner set the tone for a first round which did not follow the script that had been set by the countless mock drafts leading up to Thursday night.
  • (15) The umpteenth tragedy involving African migrants off the tiny island of Lampedusa could and should have been prevented, like the countless other deaths that have occurred over the last years in those waters.
  • (16) This man’s anguish and his love for his children pour out of your image and it is [a] look that I saw in the faces of countless people as we took them from the boats.” Working on deadline, I lost track of the family.
  • (17) 4.01pm BST Former GOP congressman and TV host Joe Scarborough lays into the Romney campaign in an op-ed for Politico : How can it be that this man who turned around countless businesses, saved the 2002 Olympics and ran Democratic Massachusetts like a pro be the head of such a disastrous campaign?
  • (18) Anti-Trump protesters to descend on NBC headquarters over SNL appearance Read more This weekend, however, the latest leg of the tour has countless Latino organizations and their allies declaring that NBC’s Trump hypocrisy will no longer be tolerated.
  • (19) The result is the emasculation not just of Scotland , but of Newcastle, Oldham, the Midlands, and countless other places not featured on the Circle line.
  • (20) Countless veterans survived the war but paid the price by leaving it maimed, mutilated and disfigured.

Numberless


Definition:

  • (a.) Innumerable; countless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Numberless droplets containing albumin were observed in the renal tissue indicating intense resorption and catabolism in the luminal and basal portions of the proximal convoluted tubules.
  • (2) The case reports include 196 A-laser trabeculoplasties, 34 A-laser iridotomies, 158 Yag-laser iridotomies, 31 gonioplasties, plus numberless combined treatments (iridotomy-trabeculoplasty, gonio-trabeculoplasty, gonioplasty-ciliary body photocoagulation, and so on).
  • (3) These pontics are supported with the numberless abutment teeth.
  • (4) One of the main problems of preparing health protection strategies is to assess the numberless risks for health.
  • (5) His own accomplishment resides not only in the safeguarding of numberless recipies from the world of folk medicine, but also in the facts that he under-pins these traditional methods of healing, and their basic principles, with a specific conception of nature, and that he marks out an exceptionally important place for traditional methods of healing in the canon of general knowledge.
  • (6) It's worth noting which belfry is closest to your villa, as these tend to be the highest points and in the labyrinth of unnamed, whitewashed, terracotta-roofed houses, it's easy to get lost - I finished up being ferried around by quasi-bilingual locals until a taxi driver recognised the name of my numberless villa (in my unnamed, whitewashed back street).
  • (7) Their marriage lasted through numberless political campaigns, Jack's loss of hearing, many public positions, the birth and upbringing of three daughters, the arrival of nine grandchildren, general elections, party conferences and endless private laughter.
  • (8) There are numberless ironies and small cruelties here.
  • (9) There are numberless more, equally impressive writers at work in China today; I trust publishers at the London book fair will boldly go and discover, as enthusiastically as I did, this complex and rich new literary world.

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