All 10 Uses
innumerable
in
The Waves, by Virginia Woolf
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- He is shaded with innumerable perplexities, or he would go with them to play cricket, and would lie in the grass, watching the sky, and would start when the ball was hit.†
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- Now one wheel sticks in the rut, and at once innumerable natives in loin-cloths swarm round it, chattering excitedly.†
- We too have made something that will join the innumerable congregations of past time.†
- The street is hard and burnished with the churning of innumerable wheels.†
- It gave to everything its exact measure of colour; to the sandhills their innumerable glitter, to the wild grasses their glancing green; or it fell upon the arid waste of the desert, here wind-scourged into furrows, here swept into desolate cairns, here sprinkled with stunted dark-green jungle trees.†
- That is what consoles me for the lack of many things—I am ugly, I am weak—and the depravity of the world, and the flight of youth and Percival's death, and bitterness and rancour and envies innumerable.†
- I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer.†
- Innumerable wheels rush and feet press just over my head.†
- Rippling small, rippling grey, innumerable waves spread beneath us.†
- All the crudity, odds and ends, this and that, have been crushed like glass splinters into the blue, the red-fringed tide, which, drawing into the shore, fertile with innumerable fish, breaks at our feet.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(innumerable) too numerous to be counted
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)