Total
Meaning
Comprising the whole number or amount.
Pronunciation
UK ˈtəʊtl
US ˈtoʊtl
Example Sentences
- In total, there are more than 200 locations.
- In 2012, Sprite was reformulated in France, removing 30% of the sugar and replacing it with the sweetener Stevia, lowering the total calorie count.
- The total length of the football field is 100 yards.
- Since a lot of the Earth is covered by water, the total surface area of the Mars is nearly as large as all of the land on the Earth.
- While there are more US households with pet dogs, there are way more pet cats than dogs in total!
- Their brains are smaller, weighing just 0.9% of their total weight while ours weigh 2%.
- Over her lifetime, a cat called [Dusty] had a total of 420 kittens.
- [It's] only one bone less, but in total, there are 205 bones in the skeleton of a horse.
- The UK.’s favorite fish is still cod and accounts for more than half of the total consumption.
- The total amount of videos uploaded in 2010 is the equivalent of 150,000+ full-length movies in theaters every week.
Learn Total in Context
How Many Are ThereHow many apples are on the table? We ask how many to count things. Look at the group of objects. Count each one out loud. One, two, three, and so on. Stop when you reach the last object. That last num...Read story 
Counting Animals on a FarmHow many animals live on a farm? Farms are full of animals to count. There are five cows in the barn. There are ten chickens in the yard. Three pigs roll around in the mud. Two horses run across the f...Read story
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