umpteen
IPA: ˈʌmptˈin
adjective
- innumerable but many
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Examples of "umpteen" in Sentences
- That's the first in umpteen decisions to make, before reaching the end.
- LäraBars come in umpteen flavors and also have a chocolate bar counterpart, Jŏcalat.
- No one can do there best if they're being torn in umpteen directions after working for twelve hours. .sometimes more.
- As an avid NPR listener, I recall hearing Nina Totenburg use this phrase umpteen times - even before September 11, 2001.
- Or it might be an indication that Web companies are making the same "invest in umpteen businesses" mistake which leads to big losses when recession hits.
- We’re not meant to notice that what we’re looking at usually isn’t worth taking the trouble to watch because we’ve watched it a hundred times before in umpteen numbers of movies and TV shows.
- If we signed up to these scaremongers, we could be about to waste a gargantuan amount of money on a problem that doesn’t exist – money that could be used in umpteen better ways: Fighting world hunger, providing clean water, developing alternative energy sources, improving our environment, creating jobs.
- And the phones are ringing off the hook: A socialite demands a table already reserved by a VIP, and Chef demands she get it; a couple "request" that "The Lady Is a Tramp" be sung at their table to celebrate their wedding anniversary, an impossibility, but he is mafia; and then there is Naomi Campbell's frenzied assistant who calls umpteen times to modify their demands for their table of 15.
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