How to use multitude in a sentence
40 example sentences · noun
Multitude means a great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion. Example: “A torrential rain poured down from the floodgates of the angry heavens upon the bared heads of the assembled multitude which numbered at the lowest computation five hundred thousand persons.”
Examples of multitude by meaning
nounA great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.
- A torrential rain poured down from the floodgates of the angry heavens upon the bared heads of the assembled multitude which numbered at the lowest computation five hundred thousand persons.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
More sentences with multitude
- It is Hinduness that has drawn the multitudes – beyond upper castes – to BJP.2019 June 6, Rahul Shivshankar, “The age of Hinduness: Modi has disavowed hard Hindutva for the humanism of ‘Hinduness’”, in The Times of…. From the entry Hinduness
- Each peer downloads the desired file, in chunks, from a multitude of other peers.2015, Jean-Marc Pierson, Large-scale Distributed Systems and Energy Efficiency: A Holistic View, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 271. From the entry chunk
- Practitioners of Reality Mining soon discover the multitudes of analytic techniques suitable for their data sets.2014, Nathan Eagle, Kate Greene, Reality Mining: Using Big Data to Engineer a Better World, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry reality mining
- As a result, a multitude of new business models for e-mobility are currently in development.2013, Michael Hülsmann, Dirk Fornahl, Evolutionary Paths Towards the Mobility Patterns of the Future. From the entry e-mobility
- More gender-diverse boards can contribute to better corporate governance for a multitude of reasons.2012 December 17, OECD, Closing the Gender Gap Act Now: Act Now, OECD Publishing, →ISBN, page 184. From the entry gender diverse
- Broad leaves of the multitude of banana trees thundered from the force.2007 March 5, Kresley Cole, The Price of Pleasure, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry pule
- The multitudes of the initiatees now jump into the water simultaneously each trying to cross the river.2006, Adamu Ibrahim Zata, The Yungur in Perspective: A Socio-Cultural and Political Survey, Yola, Adamawa: Paraclete Publishers, →ISBN…. From the entry initiatee
- There is a multitude of theisms, many understandings of God, even within the same religious tradition.2002, Ross Mackenzie, Marcus J. Borg, editors, God at 2000, page 48. From the entry understanding
- The study of qabalah is reputed to offer a multitude of spiritual benefits.2000, Steve Savedow, Sepher Rezial Hemelach / The Book of the Angel Rezial, page 9. From the entry qabalah
- It's a tradition that when you harangue the multitudes, you stand on a soapbox.1993 July 7, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic). From the entry harangue
- Peanuts can be substituted for other nuts in the multitude of German kuchens, tortes and such goodies.1970, The Culinarian: Official Publication of the Chefs Association of the Pacific Coast, volume 15, page 24. From the entry kuchen
- Date-me-docs can contain all your multitudes and then some.2023 August 19, Amanda Chatel, “Singles Are Crafting 'Date-Me-Docs' To Meet Potential Suitors - Here's What That Means”, in Glam.com…. From the entry date-me doc
- Admittedly, these unfortunate folks make up a small percentage of the waffle-stomping multitudes, but the dangers are very real.2022 September 12, Andy Zahn, “I became a cyborg backpacker, and it completely changed my hiking experience”, in Digital Trends. From the entry waffle-stomp
- Pressed by Cuomo to respond to the multitude of surveys that show minimal levels of voter fraud, Kobach was dismissive.2017 May 15, David Wright, “Kobach: ‘Election integrity’ panel ‘not set up to prove or to disprove’ Trump”, in CNN. From the entry Cuomo
- Yet another facet of your developer experience is this ability to deploy your application in a multitude of different environments.2015, Zachariah Moreno, AngularJS Deployment Essentials, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 125. From the entry developer experience
- Throw yourself an eggstravaganza each and every day by including heart-healthy egg whites in a multitude of ways.2013, Julie Feldman, Grocery Makeover: Small Changes for Big Results, Spry Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry eggstravaganza
- More importantly, there is an untold multitude of Indian English terms that have never been given lexicographical treatment in any dictionary.2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 301. From the entry untold
- Rationalists think of actors as situated withn a multitude of isolatable variables that feed into a person's decision calculus.2009, Mark I. Lichbach, Is Rational Choice Theory All of Social Science?, page 102. From the entry isolatable
- Hawaii is noted for its multitude of contentious God-botherers.2009 August 20, Paul Theroux, “Happily a State, Forever an Island”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry God-botherer
- In Exodus we undergo the first of a multitude of shocking surprises, issuing from the great surpriser, the primal shocker.2008, Daniel Berrigan, Exodus: Let My People Go, page 27. From the entry surpriser
- In place of the monologue is a heteroglot, so to speak, of a multitude of voices, sociolects, dialects, registers and styles.2005, Shi-xu, Manfred Kienpointner, & Jan Servaes, Read the Cultural Other, →ISBN, page 219. From the entry heteroglot
- The multitude stood gazing round about to see the congress., New York Review of Books, 2001, p.48. From the entry congress
- Between unequivocal perverty behavior and, say, the light fevered brush-up against somebody's arm on a divan lay a multitude of point-shaving.1987, Paul Hendrickson, Seminary: A Search, page 163. From the entry point-shaving
- The large pseudochannel seen in cross section in the center of the photograph is surrounded by a multitude of smaller pseudochannels.1964, Alfred Herman Chidester, Talc Resources of the United States - Issues 1167-1170, page 50. From the entry pseudochannel
- “Wait a minute!” The undergrowth at the side of the scar was shaken and a multitude of raindrops fell pattering.1954, William Golding, chapter 1, in Lord of the Flies, Penguin. From the entry scar
- None of this multitude of thinkers and their satellites brought his thoughts into really conclusive contact with the others.1941, H.G. Wells, You Can't be Too Careful: A Sample of Life 1901-1951, London: Secker & Warburg, page 284. From the entry bombinate
- He closed his ears to applauding voices of the multitude, when those voices were to him the melody of time.1910 May, Margaret Preston Lynnbrook, “Doctor Bestor's Atonement”, in The New England Magazine, volume 42, number 3, page 312. From the entry close one's ears
- The sound of it was scarce louder than the hiss of the rain, a multitude of soft bubblings and squelchings.1908, Frederick Niven, The Lost Cabin Mine. From the entry bubbling
- In taking on this new role, Boyd had learned that Les Miz's "bad guy" contains multitudes—not unlike the stars he sings about.2020 January 28, Lindsey Sullivan, “Watch Les Miz Tour Javert Preston Truman Boyd’s Luminous Performance of ‘Stars’”, in Broadway Buzz…. From the entry contain multitudes
- The teeming multitudes are to be found hidden in the soil, or beneath the debris that covers much of the earth's surface.2020 [1975], John Cloudsley-Thompson, Terrestrial Environments, Routledge, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry cryptosphere
- When we look at the grains of sand – countless in number – they speak to us of the multitude of God's lovingkindnesses to us.2012, James Hastings, “Seaside Lodgings”, in The Book of Acts: Children’s Great Bible Texts, [s.l.]: Jazzybee Verlag, →ISBN. From the entry lovingkindness
- You'll find a multitude of uses for these—cooking a chicken stew to baking cookies, transporting individual appetizers and using as shelves in cambros.2006, Lora Arduser, Douglas Robert Brown, The professional caterer's handbook, page 532. From the entry cambro
- Any inexpensive dictionary of quotations offers a multitude of entries illustrating youthful irresponsibility such as Oscar Wilde’s ‘youth is wasted on the young’.2006, Rupa Huq, “Introduction: Youth Culture at the Turn of the Century”, in Beyond Subculture: Pop, Youth and Identity in a Postcolonial…. From the entry youth is wasted on the young
- “The flesh of the multitude,” they say, “is an elemental power.” It will act like some immense bio-organism, restructuring the body politic.2004 August 7, Edward Rothstein, “For Radical Visionaries, the Evil Empire Is Us”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry biopolitical
- Earlier Thomas quotes Proclus in his explanation thus: "All beingly being is infinite, not according to multitude or magnitude, but according to power alone.2003, Journal of Chinese philosophy. From the entry beingly
- They are inspirited, thinking bodies, and it is their bodies that launch the development of selves through a multitude of complex encounters.2002, Nel Noddings, Starting at Home: Caring and Social Policy, part 2, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, page 124. From the entry inspirit
- History is the vicissitudes of common folk, and nothing nobler can be contemplated than the numberless multitudes who shape the world’s destiny.1974, New Blackfriars, page 62. From the entry polloi
- And like these fresh green things were the dozens of babies, tots, toddlers, noisy urchins, laughing girls, a whole multitude of children of one family.1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 7, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC. From the entry urchin
- It is generally believed that the creation of the Kuomintang will somewhat straighten out the political tangle in China caused by the multitude of parties.1912 September 7, “The Passing of the Tungmenghui”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume CIV, number 2352…. From the entry Kuomintang
Meaning of multitude
- noun A great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.
- noun The mass of ordinary people; the masses, the populace.
Questions about multitude in a sentence
- How do you use multitude in a sentence?
- Multitude is used as a noun. For example: “A torrential rain poured down from the floodgates of the angry heavens upon the bared heads of the assembled multitude which numbered at the lowest computation five hundred thousand persons.”
- What is a short sentence with multitude?
- “Date-me-docs can contain all your multitudes and then some.”
- What does multitude mean?
- Multitude means a great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.
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