INNUMERABLE in a Sentence

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The flowers were unnecessary, for at two o'clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby's, with innumerable receptacles to contain it.

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 Meanings and Examples of INNUMERABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
innumerable
 a.  too many to be counted; numerous
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  Time, with his innumerable horse-power, worked away, not minding what anybody said, and presently turned out young Thomas a foot taller than when his father had last taken particular notice of him.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV
2  Even the prostitution to the bitch-goddess was nothingness, though the men prostituted themselves innumerable times.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  I would have everything as complete as possible in the country, shrubberies and flower-gardens, and rustic seats innumerable: but it must all be done without my care.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  I have such innumerable presents from him that it is quite impossible for me to value or for him to remember half.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  Gusts in innumerable series followed each other from the northwest, and when each one of them raced past the sound of its progress resolved into three.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
6  All the shallower ponds had decreased to a vaporous mud amid which the maggoty shapes of innumerable obscure creatures could be indistinctly seen, heaving and wallowing with enjoyment.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 5 The Journey across the Heath
7  It was a very large chamber, lined with innumerable volumes, which had overflowed from the shelves and lay in piles in the corners, or were stacked all round at the base of the cases.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
8  Transverse to the length were innumerable tables made of slabs of polished stone, raised perhaps a foot from the floor, and upon these were heaps of fruits.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
9  On that theory they would have grown innumerable some Eight Hundred Thousand Years hence, and it was no great wonder to see four at once.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
10  They still possessed the earth on sufferance: since the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
11  I could mention innumerable instances which, although slight, marked the dispositions of these amiable cottagers.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
12  Look also at the innumerable fish that are swimming in the clear waters, where we can distinguish every pebble that lies at the bottom.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
13  When she moved about there was an incessant clicking as innumerable pottery bracelets jingled up and down upon her arms.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
14  The flowers were unnecessary, for at two o'clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby's, with innumerable receptacles to contain it.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
15  We pushed aside curtains that were like pavilions and felt over innumerable feet of dark wall for electric light switches--once I tumbled with a sort of splash upon the keys of a ghostly piano.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
Example Sentence:
1  The innumerable stars in the sky are too far from us.