How to Use sum in a Sentence

sum

1 of 2 verb
  • Oh, well, that almost sums it all up, eh? But what about 2023?
    Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Beckworth didn’t offer a phrase or word to sum it all up.
    Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 6 Dec. 2021
  • But the word that summed Springer up, according to Rashid, was genuine.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The ending of Mayfield’s speech does sum it up pretty well.
    Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2020
  • To sum it up, Kenan and Kel are still Kenan and Kel — but without all the lights and cameras on them.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 12 Sep. 2022
  • One pleased customer summed this up simply as worth the money.
    Lauren Levy, Health, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Einstein summed it up better; ‘More the knowledge, lesser the ego.
    Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 18 June 2023
  • To sum it up in a word, as Locatelli and Lacovich did: Calma.
    Nina Ruggiero, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2021
  • Dodgers catcher Will Smith may have summed it up best, noting that at age 29, Ohtani seems to be hitting his prime.
    Tim Booth, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
  • To sum it up, the best time to take a probiotic is first thing in the morning on an empty stomach.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2022
  • That about sums it up for some really simple, easy-to-tie knots and hitches.
    Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 12 July 2023
  • So, to sum things up, Labor of Love doesn’t involve any type of pregnancy.
    Ariana Brockington, refinery29.com, 22 May 2020
  • If bigness is what defines Dallas, then few things sum that up quite like the Cowboys.
    Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN, 24 Mar. 2022
  • To sum it up, every stereo pair and speaker group can be accessed and controlled in the same way as a single speaker.
    David Nield, Wired, 24 Nov. 2020
  • To sum it up in the words of Tzu: Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
    Morris Kupfer, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Some have said the lack of a replay review system makes the sport look bad, but Duke coach John Danowski probably summed it up best.
    Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 27 May 2023
  • To sum it up in a sentence: Resilience is the ability to manage stress in effective ways.
    Rachel Goldsmith Turow, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Estimates are shown to the nearest dollar; rows or columns may not sum due to rounding.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • To sum it up from a medical standpoint: Yes, donut pillows can help relieve pain.
    Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The total score for each city is calculated by summing the weighted scores for each of these metric.
    USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
  • As the year wraps up, trying to sum it up in Minnesota and U.S. politics means trying to make sense of a messy jumble of cause and effect.
    Patrick Condon, Star Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
  • The candidates had two minutes to make opening remarks, then take questions, then sum it up.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2023
  • To sum it up, an emerging body of research indicates that practice doesn’t make perfect.
    Bryan Nichols, The Conversation, 16 Aug. 2022
  • In the photos, Banks smiles, dresses up in a poofy pink dress, draws on herself with crayons and eats a melting ice cream cone as her proud mom sums her feelings up in a lengthy caption.
    Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Totals may not sum to 100% as the question allowed for multiple categories to be marked.
    Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2022
  • To sum it up: generative A.I. is likely to have the most profound impact on the business world of any technology since the PC.
    Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 12 May 2023
  • The Pythagorean theorem provides an equation to calculate the longer side of a right triangle by summing the squares of the other two sides.
    Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
  • To sum it up, Kaley could hardly choke out more than a laugh and knee-slapping reaction for each outfit Andy resurfaced from the early 2000s.
    Rebecca Norris, Good Housekeeping, 6 May 2022
  • To sum it up, AirPods Max are a catchall gadget powered by a tremendous amount of technology inside.
    Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 10 Dec. 2020
  • There’s a big splashy video finish that doesn’t exactly sum anything up but provides a sharp crescendo to all the emotional turmoil.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 25 Jan. 2023
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sum

2 of 2 noun
  • On the other hand, the same sum stashed in a big bank would only yield a few bucks.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • And those virtues and talents combine to form a whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.
    Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 8 Apr. 2023
  • In sum, the jury considered the case for about two days.
    Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2023
  • In sum, this is a far cry from the team’s output through 10 games last season.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 25 Apr. 2024
  • This year’s sum was almost twice as much as two years ago.
    Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
  • These sneakers are not the first to have sold for a staggering sum.
    Amarachi Orie, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • In 2011, the trio and Wone’s widow settled for an undisclosed sum.
    Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Comfort: Comfort comes down to the sum of a number of details.
    Isaiah Freeman-Schub, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Lil Wayne settled with the record label for an undisclosed sum in 2018.
    Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Most lottery winners opt for the one-time, lump-sum cash payment.
    Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Here, each voice works to create something greater than the sum of its parts, which is rare for supergroups.
    Bobby Olivier, SPIN, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The woman sued the CIPP contractor and settled in 2022 for an undisclosed sum.
    USA Today, 30 Mar. 2023
  • That sum places him as the world’s third richest person, according to Bloomberg.
    Samantha Delouya, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023
  • One player will win a life-changing sum; the penalty for losing is death.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • That sum marks the largest week for a rap album by a woman in the 2020s decade, and the biggest for an R&B/hip-hop album by a woman this year.
    Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Altman and his ilk have to talk up a big game in order to get the massive sums of money in order to set up AI.
    Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 23 Mar. 2023
  • There won’t be $400 million, or anything close to that sum, left to divide next summer.
    Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2023
  • That sum is a lot for most European clubs but not for aspiring teams in the Premier League.
    Henry Flynn, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • This process involves vast sums of tax revenue that states are owed but never collect.
    Matt Stevens, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2024
  • However, a single day includes many parts, and may seem more than the mere arithmetical sum of all of them.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The biggest, perhaps, is wrangling the vast sums of data required to train a roster of AI models.
    IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2023
  • But the last decade’s low interest rates led to growing sums being poured into tech start-ups.
    Erin Griffith, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Cicadas can't harm humans, pets, or livestock, but produce an extreme sound when there's a greater sum of them.
    Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 22 Apr. 2024
  • In sum, these communities, many of them low-income, struggle with some of the worst impacts of car culture.
    Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Since these trees are so networked and interconnected, the sum is greater than its parts and isn’t easy to quantify.
    Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Swift has four more albums that have sold at least 1 million each, lifting her sum of million-selling albums to a lucky 13.
    Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The Goldmans were awarded a judgment of $33.5 million, though Simpson only ever paid a small fraction of the sum.
    Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The swag given out at this year’s Oscars could end up costing recipients quite a hefty sum.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Whole numbers can also be encoded as strings of zeros and ones, in what is called binary form, where they are expressed as sums of powers of 2.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2024
  • But her shifting plans gave an opening to Goodrich to raise a sizable sum of money and raised the potential that Spartz would be the first House Republican to lose a primary this year in a race that wasn’t affected by redistricting.
    Isabella Volmert, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2024

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