How do you use the word "count" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "count" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "count": You should only count on yourself--but even then, not too much. You could count to ten when you were two.

Count Meaning

/kaʊnt/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo recite numbers in sequence.

verbTo determine the number of (objects in a group).

Sentence Examples

You should only count on yourself--but even then, not too much.

You could count to ten when you were two.

There will be a second count.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

matter number consider

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

Please ____ the number of chairs in the conference room before the meeting.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

You should only ____ on yourself--but even then, not too much.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin com- Latin putus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin putō Latin computō Anglo-Norman counterbor. Middle English counten English count From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“to compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute. Compare typologically reckon, Russian счита́ть (sčitátʹ), счита́ться (sčitátʹsja); the semantic evolution to Mongolian санах (sanax).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted; The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President,[…]" — 1803, Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution:

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." — c. 1845–1846, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, in Poems. […], new edition, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], published 1850, →OCLC, sonnet XLII, page 479:

"They counted thirty, crowded in a space Which left scarce room for motion or exertion; […]" — 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, stanza LXIII, page 150:

"This excellent man […] counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen." — 1886, John Addington Symonds, Sir Philip Sidney:

"Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it." — 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

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