How to Use amass in a Sentence

amass

verb
  • They've amassed a wealth of information.
  • This isn’t the first time Kotb’s amassed the courage to shake things up.
    — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 28 May 2025
  • The hope was to amass water in wet times and save it for dry times.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Neely, 30, had even amassed fans outside of New York City.
    — Victoria Bekiempis, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Two seasons of the show have amassed over 15 million views.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2024
  • One copy of the movie has been up since April 28th and has amassed… 9.3 million views as of posting.
    — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The video has already amassed 7 million views in just 24 hours.
    — Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
  • The episode has amassed nearly 45 million views on YouTube.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The two women, born three decades apart in Tokyo, both preach the idea that households amass too much stuff.
    — River Akira Davis, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • In the five years since its launch, Bookshop.org has amassed quite the loyal following.
    — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The fundraiser helped amass $7 million for Ukrainians in a short amount of time.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The Patriots amassed 503 yards of offense in the loss to Athens, but fumbled the ball away twice in the fourth quarter. ...
    — al, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Elliott has amassed a stake that was worth as much as $2 billion.
    — Amelia Lucas,rohan Goswami, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The influencer has since amassed a net worth of $1.5 million.
    — Heather Hamilton, Washington Examiner, 12 Apr. 2023
  • To the rhythm of a peppy beat, a player would press and spin these buttons at just the right time to amass points—that is, if the game worked.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Was that just a staged ploy to amass hype for a single that was already written?
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
  • Israel has amassed its troops on the border and begun its ground war.
    — Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The videos amass thousands of views, the comments sections filled with earnest answers to Lynch’s words.
    — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2020
  • The Israeli military has amassed its forces at the Gaza border.
    — Lawahez Jabari, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The Terps, who were one of the top defensive teams in the Big Ten through the first four games, allowed the Buckeyes to amass 598 total yards.
    — Ryan McFadden, baltimoresun.com, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Last season, Arizona State was the only team to amass more than 500 yards of offense against the Beavers.
    — oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The latest results, amassed over the past four years, are now painting a picture of our home as a unique place, at a unique time.
    — WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The video, which was uploaded to YouTube a month later, has amassed over 170 million views.
    — Taiwo Balogun, Peoplemag, 26 May 2023
  • Carolina will need time to amass talent on par with much of the league, and Rhule blamed his coaching in last week’s 28-27 loss to the Vikings.
    — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2020
  • With that out of the way, think of Slay the Spire, a game where players amass a deck of game-altering cards over the course of standard gameplay.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2020
  • And that’s part of how these companies have been able to amass all this power and how we’ve been left at a loss to know what to do about it.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 28 July 2020
  • The pop-ups amass thousands of customers and bring in hundreds of thousands dollars in sales.
    — Yola Robert, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • But none of these items has gained much traction on the internet, and the videos about them have amassed only modest views.
    — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
  • This Pixar and Disney Lego set has amassed more than 3,000 five-star ratings from shoppers.
    — Mia Huelsbeck, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2024
  • Months before, Elliott had amassed an 11% stake in the company.
    — Sean Conlon, CNBC, 29 May 2025

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