COUNTLESS in a Sentence

Learn COUNTLESS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

19 example sentences for COUNTLESS, such as:

1. She is, as countless stories about her attest, deeply religious.
2. This was a lofty chamber, lined and littered with countless bottles.
3. And that what I say is true is shown by countless passages in history.
4. Moreover, their families would be proud of them through countless generations.
5. The number of people who stand ready to consume one's time, to no purpose, is almost countless.

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countless
 a.  innumerable; infinite; too many to count
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  They built their fine homes on Whitehall and Washington streets and along the high ridge of land on which countless generations of moccasined Indian feet had beaten a path called the Peachtree Trail.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  Moreover, their families would be proud of them through countless generations.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
3  Her countless friends who appreciate her splendid labors with the local Red Cross realize how valuable she will be to any war board with which she chooses to become connected.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  Of all the wondrous devices and dexterities, the sleights of hand and countless subtleties, to which the veteran whaleman is so often forced, none exceed that fine manoeuvre with the lance called pitchpoling.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.
5  Winding its way among countless islands, and imbedded in mountains, the "holy lake" extended a dozen leagues still further to the south.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
6  To the north stretched the limpid, and, as it appeared from that dizzy height, the narrow sheet of the "holy lake," indented with numberless bays, embellished by fantastic headlands, and dotted with countless islands.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
7  This was a lofty chamber, lined and littered with countless bottles.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
8  None came save his own cry, which clattered up the dreary silent ravines, and was borne back to his ears in countless repetitions.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
9  At every turn Baskerville gave an exclamation of delight, looking eagerly about him and asking countless questions.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
10  You who have never seen the like can scarcely imagine what delicate and wonderful flowers countless years of culture had created.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
11  For countless years I judged there had been no danger of war or solitary violence, no danger from wild beasts, no wasting disease to require strength of constitution, no need of toil.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
12  And that what I say is true is shown by countless passages in history.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X.
13  The number of people who stand ready to consume one's time, to no purpose, is almost countless.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV.
14  She remembered nothing more until she awoke and found herself in a beautiful meadow, full of sunshine, and with countless flowers blooming in every direction.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In MOTHER HOLLE
15  Seen by the dim light of the dips, their number to me appeared countless, though not in reality exceeding eighty; they were uniformly dressed in brown stuff frocks of quaint fashion, and long holland pinafores.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence:
1  Times of economic hardship inevitably encourage the proliferation of countless get-rich-quick schemes.
2  Seen by the dim light, their number to me appeared countless, though not in reality exceeding eighty.
3  She is, as countless stories about her attest, deeply religious.