(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.
Uncountable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It is not known how many killings by police officers go uncounted in the United States each year.
(2) By restraining the lateral spread and confluence of colonies, the hydrophobic grid-membrane filter (HGMF) allows growth- or colony-forming units (GU) to be resolved at levels far above those which produce an uncountable lawn on a conventional membrane filter.
(3) In a canyon between grey shattered precipices of bomb-ravaged buildings, an uncountable number of people wait for food.
(4) The first-ever attempt by US record-keepers to estimate the number of uncounted “law enforcement homicides” exposed previous official tallies as capturing less than half of the real picture.
(5) But Kyte added: “If they all had access to coal-fired power tomorrow their respiratory illness rates would go up, etc, etc … We need to extend access to energy to the poor and we need to do it the cleanest way possible because the social costs of coal are uncounted and damaging, just as the global emissions count is damaging as well.” The World Bank sees climate change as a driver of poverty, threatening decades of development.
(6) There are uncountable things that only a human can do, and that no computer seems close to.
(7) Some degree of carpeting of the colonic mucosa and uncountable numbers fo tumors occurred in 30% of mice and these areas of confluent neoplasms also occurred predominantly in the distal colon.
(8) Simulations with this model show that: (1) none of the postural maintenance schemes considered in these simulations (including varying anticipation) could suppress the initial backward thrust on the body link; (2) the more important destabilizing perturbation is a subsequent forward sway that, left uncountered by postural activity, would eventually leave the body to fall flat on its face; and (3) anticipatory silencing of the postural extensor followed by a brief period of extensor activation (descending control) and synchronous reflex activity (feedback control) appears to be the most likely postural stabilizing strategy that inhibits the continuous forward sway and is consistent with the experimental evidence.
(9) Moscow remains wary of the Afghan quagmire, with memories still fresh of the disastrous 1979-89 war that cost the lives of 15,000 Russian soldiers and uncounted Afghan civilians, and ultimately contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
(10) The uncounted: why the US can't keep track of people killed by police Read more Cummings told the Guardian he was convening the debate “because I believe we have a unique moment of bipartisan, nationwide support to reform our criminal justice system – a system that has led to the over-criminalization, imprisonment, and even deaths of Americans across the country, particularly in communities of color.
(11) An average of 545 people killed by local and state law enforcement officers in the US went uncounted in the country’s most authoritative crime statistics every year for almost a decade, according to a report released on Tuesday.
(12) The core business of the BBC is broadcasting – it's there in the name – and if it has to make a choice between radio, television and an uncountable number of web pages then radio and TV should always come first.
(13) The abdominal pathologies that can be studied are almost uncountable: gastric neoplasms, pancreatic cysts and stones, gallstones, neoplasms of the liver and pancreas, bowel tumors, abdominal aortic aneurysms, renal neoplasms and cysts, atrophy of the kidneys, bladder tumors, uterine tumors, ovarian cysts, and many more.
(14) Wyden warned that the uncounted FBI searches posed a particular problem, both substantively and for oversight.
(15) I hope that neither place continues to act as a graveyard; full of the uncounted remains of people we preferred not to think about or see as equal to ourselves.
(16) The amplitude reduction associated with a CVA cannot be simply interpreted as evidence for reduced cognitive efficiency because overall amplitudes and intercorrelations between brain regions of CVA patients were reduced for both counted and uncounted stimuli.
(17) But the majority of victims in law enforcement homicides for those years not only went unnamed – they went uncounted in any one tally.
(18) Simulations also predict that any postural activities in the hips and lower limbs should be a two-fold process: first, some preprogrammed, descending control to the lower body would be required to actively enhance the passive, backwards motion (this is consistent with, though not strictly identical to, the hypothesis of Crenna and colleagues); secondly, there must be a subsequent activation in the anterior muscles of the lower body in order to arrest this backwards motion, since otherwise the uncountered momentum would carry the body backward to the floor in less than half a second after the upper body movement has terminated.
(19) Operation Ellamy cost the British taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds; what it cost the Libyan people is uncountable.
(20) A justice department investigation of the FBI’s published statistics has already revealed the worst from a data standpoint: more than half the people killed by local and state law enforcement officers in the US went uncounted in the country’s most authoritative crime statistics every year, for almost a decade.