How to Use quantify in a Sentence

quantify

verb
  • Doctors have quantified the risks of smoking cigarettes.
  • It is impossible to quantify the number of websites on the Internet.
  • It is difficult to quantify intelligence.
  • The study is among the first to quantify the scale of plastic waste linked to the health crisis.
    — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The 911 center, though, hasn’t been able to quantify the number of those calls.
    — oregonlive, 26 June 2020
  • The lack of testing has made the Covid-19 toll even harder to quantify.
    — Jason Douglas, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2020
  • What's at risk may be hard to quantify in numbers but the loss would be great.
    — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 23 Jan. 2022
  • The challenge is how to quantify and harness that tilt, and that is where this ETF comes in.
    — Chris Taylor, wsj.com, 7 Nov. 2023
  • But in terms of quantifying their joy, the raise has about the same effect, Killingsworth says.
    — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Sticky days and muggy days can be classed and quantified as those with dew points of 65 or above.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Still, Gates said, some of the impacts of the pandemic are hard to quantify.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 14 Sep. 2020
  • The risk was thought to be too large, too unpredictable to quantify.
    — Evan Ratliff, Wired, 16 June 2020
  • Those rights had to be quantified in court, which took nearly 35 years.
    — Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The study did more than quantify the income gains from glasses.
    — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The company, which released the film, does not quantify the receipts or the record.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 27 June 2024
  • The team could quantify the white spruce in the region with satellite imagery that shows how the tree line has changed over time.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
  • But there is a value in this that may be harder to quantify.
    — Cnn Staff, CNN, 8 June 2020
  • And no one knows how to quantify any of it with precision.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The firm will help quantify what the actual cost of opioid abuse has been.
    — Catalina Righter, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Whether or not a sperm’s movement is the most efficient way to swim is hard to quantify.
    — Courtney Sexton, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2020
  • At the very least, social media reach is easy to quantify.
    — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 2 Apr. 2021
  • For one, this is hard to quantify, as the majority of Latinos in Texas are young and can’t vote yet.
    — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The short-term is a little easier to quantify, with DraftKings stock up 8% on the news.
    — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Yet nowhere does Leonardo quantify the location of the man’s navel.
    — Steven Strogatz, New York Times, 16 June 2025
  • But the result of making those prices public is so far hard to quantify.
    — Julie Appleby, NPR, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Kids give up a lot to attend these programs, and much of the cost is harder to quantify.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Somebody has to be paid to do all that quantifying and validating.
    — Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 18 Apr. 2026
  • To what degree Truman’s influence cleared the way can’t be quantified.
    — Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2026
  • But what’s kept her attention is something harder to quantify than prize money.
    — The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Since then, the term has become so much a part of the lexicon that there are folks who try to quantify it.
    — Fatma Tanis, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026

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