How to Use grand total in a Sentence

grand total

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  • The field of 12 has a grand total of five Grade 1 or Group 1 wins this year.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • That’s a cancelling of points for me, and a grand total of ZERO.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • His grand total: 72 home runs, which is far less than 91 but also etched him in the record books.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
  • That’s all that happens in the TikTok video, which lasts a grand total of about five seconds.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2024
  • Since then, condos in the building have sold for a grand total of more than $1.35 billion.
    — Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful, 9 Aug. 2023
  • All in all, the historic indictment brought a grand total of 41 charges against 19 people.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Adam Driver has played two famous Italians in the past two-ish years, adding up to a grand total of playing … two Italians.
    — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Chances are your grand total will still cost less than grabbing a pair of espadrilles from Chanel's latest season.
    — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 23 June 2023
  • All that hard work dropped the pool’s temperature a grand total of 4 degrees Fahrenheit.
    — Michael Phillis, Chicago Tribune, 30 July 2023
  • That’s one point for getting it in three and zero for tying Wordle Bot for a grand total of 1 point x2 for Friday doubles.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Stone has a grand total of 19 MLB outings under his belt, still barely a year removed from his big-league debut.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
  • All that hard work dropped the pool's temperature a grand total of 4 degrees (7 degrees Celsius).
    — Michael Phillis, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
  • That’s zero points for guessing in four and zero points for tying Wordle Bot (who guessed slate / pinot / story / stock) for a grand total of zero.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • This, his 49th in the category, makes for a grand total of 54 Oscar nods, including the five he’s received for original song.
    — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • According to the Academy, the late Walt Disney holds the overall record of career nominations, with a grand total of 59.
    — Dan Heching, CNN, 28 Jan. 2024
  • He’s started only five games in that period and has a grand total of one interception.
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Gifts go directly to the charities but are tallied to determine the campaign's grand total.
    — Jodicee Arianna, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Tesla has slashed prices a grand total of five times since January 2023 as demand for its vehicles appeared to falter.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 2 May 2023
  • California ranked first in number of Spirit Halloween stores with a grand total of 172 and second in number of haunted houses.
    — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The number of neuromodulator injections (including Botox, Xeomin, and Dysport) was up 9 percent last year, for a grand total of about 9.5 million.
    — Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 25 June 2024
  • While many love to point the finger at this discrepancy to a lack of education, a Black woman with a doctoral degree earns a whopping one cent more (for a grand total of 65 cents) compared to a white man who also holds a doctoral degree.
    — Michelle Holder and Anne Price, Essence, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Hell, in Maher’s own arena of late-night television, there are a grand total of zero female hosts after Amber Ruffin’s Peacock show was recently downgraded to a series of specials.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • After frittering away a few hundred million dollars, Lordstown has built a grand total of 31 painfully uncompetitive trucks.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2023
  • Bradley Beal, Booker and Durant have appeared in only four games together for a grand total of 65 minutes, a lack of continuity that reminded several Clippers of their own struggles to keep their strong rosters healthy in recent seasons.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • It's spiked with a grand total of 72 ingredients meant to plump, firm, and hydrate, including call-outs like antioxidant-rich sea buckthorn oil, moisture-replenishing jojoba oil, and dullness-defying algae extract.
    — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 21 Nov. 2023

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