Sentence examples for an innumerable from inspiring English sources

In Tudor times, Richard Turpyn recorded "an innumerable swarme of whit buttarflyes... so thicke as flakes of snowe" that they blotted out views of Calais.

While the animal world enjoys an innumerable complement of collective nouns, ranging from the wonderfully alliterative to the impenetrably obscure, you may not be surprised to learn that football has quite a few of its own.

"There's an innumerable number of people who have suffered violence or injustice who might write to the pope for a word of comfort, and it's clear that he can't answer all of them," said Alberto Melloni, a Vatican historian and the director of the John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies in Bologna, a liberal Catholic research institute.

After Empedocles had broken up the indivisible, motionless, and timeless reality of Parmenides and Zeno into four elements played upon alternately by Love and Strife, it was a short step for the Atomists of the 5th century bc, Leucippus and Democritus, to break up reality still further into an innumerable host of minute atoms moving in time through a vacuum.

It behooves us, however, to remember also that de Tocqueville warns about the "oppression by which democratic nations are menaced... an innumerable multitude of men, all equal and alike, incessantly endeavoring to procure the petty and paltry pleasures with which they glut their lives".

The conclusion to "American Notes," of 1842, a book that won him few friends in the land that he had toured, anatomized what he had found there: One great blemish in the popular mind of America, and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust.

Dan has two children and a wife, a staff, innumerable obligations; he's a busy man.

Eusebius speaks of an almost innumerable host of accompanying priests, deacons and acolytes.

Whether designers intend it or not, killing somebody using a gun is the most politically charged interaction in all of video games – with that single, fleeting press of a button, innumerable questions are posed.

Whether designers intend it or not, killing somebody using a gun is the most politically charged interaction in all of video games with that single, fleeting press of a button, innumerable questions are posed.

Originally a Phoenician settlement, Leptis Magna swelled into a metropolis during his reign (A.D. 193 to 211), complete with triumphal arches, a vast forum, innumerable inscriptions, and an amphitheater seating 50,000.