All 6 Uses of
innumerable
in
1984 by Orwell
- A low-ceilinged, crowded room, its walls grimy from the contact of innumerable bodies; battered metal tables and chairs, placed so close together that you sat with elbows touching; bent spoons, dented trays, coarse white mugs; all surfaces greasy, grime in every crack; and a sourish, composite smell of bad gin and bad coffee and metallic stew and dirty clothes.†
p. 59..4
- The floorspace was very restricted, because all round the walls were stacked innumerable dusty picture-frames.†
p. 94..9 *
- The sunlight, filtering through innumerable leaves, was still hot on their faces.†
p. 123..2
- She obviously had a practical cunning which Winston lacked, and she seemed also to have an exhaustive knowledge of the countryside round London, stored away from innumerable community hikes.†
p. 127..2
- Innumerable fingers, like moving trees, were still streaming past in either direction, crossing and recrossing.†
p. 252..0
- He had been appointed to a sub-committee of a sub-committee which had sprouted from one of the innumerable committees dealing with minor difficulties that arose in the compilation of the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary.†
p. 294..5
Definition:
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(innumerable) too numerous to be counted