umpteen

How to use umpteen in a sentence

• In four previous lessons over the past decade-plus, I’d managed umpteen wipeouts and a brief half-second of nearly standing upright.

  A Maui vacation in three acts | Alex Pulaski | February 12, 2021 | Washington Post

• Go back and listen to Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood,” or Tove Lo’s “Talking Body,” or Ellie Goulding’s “Around U,” or Daya’s “Hide Away,” or Selena Gomez’s “Sober,” or umpteen others that each seemed to be shouting for our attention.

  Sophie pushed feel-good music toward a boundary that might not exist | Chris Richards | February 1, 2021 | Washington Post

• Fifty states, umpteen localities, all of them with different rules not only about the rate of tax, but which items are exempt.

  Congress Is Considering a Bill to Make Internet Firms Collect Sales Tax. Here’s Why They Shouldn’t Pass It. | Megan McArdle | April 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST

• And predictably Clinton found umpteen opportunities to brag about himself, his initiatives, his wife, his record in office.

  Ex-Bush Aide on How Bill Clinton’s Speech Bested Mitt Romney’s | Matt Latimer | September 6, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST

• I got home at 1:30 AM and there were umpteen frantic messages from my friends.

  They Murdered My Friend | Sandra McElwaine | November 17, 2008 | THE DAILY BEAST