Sample sentences for ENUMERATE

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Definition

to name items individually (as though making a list); or to count

She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered

enumerated = to name items individually (as though making a list)

The various reasons we have just enumerated lead us to believe that the new radioactive substance contains a new element to which we propose to give the name of RADIUM.
Marie Curie
There is not enough time to enumerate all of her accomplishments.
From memory, she can enumerate each classmate along with a distinguishing feature or two.
Asked how the financial crisis is affecting them, they enumerate a long list: the clothing they can no longer buy, the vacations they can no longer take...
Time Magazine, 2009 -- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1909486,00.html (retrieved 09/16/09)
I might offer many excuses that some would admit to be valid, but I will not attempt to enumerate them
Anne Bronte -- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
He told himself the trouble and the pain she had caused him, he enumerated her glaring deficiencies as a wife.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Winter Dreams

enumerated = to name items individually

We then went into consideration of our several points of complaint, which I enumerated.
Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
No Capitation, or other direct Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

Stephen began to enumerate glibly his father's attributes.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
I enumerated these points to my two colleagues.
Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express
SEED...... " One page afterTanaina Plantlore enumerates the wild potato, it describes a closely related species, wild sweet pea, Hedysarum mackenzii.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
It would take a dozen pages to enumerate all the reproaches the historians address to him, based on their knowledge of what is good for humanity.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
"God of Death," he called out, "enumerate our strengths."
Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light
The one which carefully enumerated all the motorcycle parts and functions?
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Besides the elevated and more solid individuals enumerated, there were present a few younger though not less elegant guests.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
—and honest Raggles continued, in a lamentable tone, an enumeration of his griefs.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair

Many other advantages might be enumerated.
Jonathan Swift -- A Modest Proposal
Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them.
Nicolo Machiavelli -- The Prince
I could enumerate more difficulties, like pangs, vexations, bellyaches, anxious nosebleeds and vomiting, continual alarms about pregnancy.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March

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