How to Use even number in a Sentence

even number

noun
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  • What even number is not the result of two prime numbers?
    — Jared Beasley, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The guest list Your guest list needs to be an even number, Del Rio says, so no one will feel like the odd person out.
    — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
  • To measure the diameter of a ceiling fan with an even number of blades, simply measure from the tip of one blade to the tip of the blade across from it.
    — Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2023
  • On the other hand, an even number of twists yields a two-sided structure called a twisted cylinder (shown below left).
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The twelve signs are said to alternate in a yin and yang sequence, depending on whether the animal has an odd or even number of claws, hooves, or feet.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2024
  • For example, Goldbach's conjecture states that every even number greater than two is the sum of two odd primes.
    — Craig S. Kaplan, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
  • For example, Goldbach's conjecture states that every even number greater than two is the sum of two odd primes.
    — Craig S. Kaplan, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • If expansion is approved, the board would then have to vote to change the regulation that says each division must have an even number of schools.
    — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Anderson, the state climatologist, said an even number of El Niños this century have produced dry and wet winters.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • What began a century ago as a nice, even number—g=2—has now spiraled into a task of monstrous precision and fractal complexity.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The even number of electrons in carbon and silicon typically means that their charges all exist in pairs with opposite spins, which cancel each other’s magnetic fields.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Since each mirror image of the rectangle corresponds to the ball bouncing off a wall, for the ball to return to its starting point traveling in the same direction, its trajectory must cross the table an even number of times in both directions.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
  • But current and former council members said last week that having an even number of council members, while certainly a challenge, might be a good thing that forces members to work harder at building consensus.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2023
  • The rotavirus also used to follow a biennial pattern where cases would peak every other year, typically on even number years like 2024.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
  • For instance, one athlete testified that Shaw placed three electrical muscle stimulation pads on her body to treat her injury, but former athletic trainers and expert witnesses testified that such treatments require an even number of pads.
    — Kenny Jacoby, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023

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