How to Use billion in a Sentence

billion

noun
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  • We could see a billion stars in the sky.
  • And the guy who shields his billions while itching to raise taxes on the middle-class?
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 19 Nov. 2019
  • This immediate cost-saver of billions ought to be low-hanging fruit.
    — Beth Bailey, Fox News, 16 Jan. 2025
  • This year’s fires could add billions to that liability.
    — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • A few hundred souls, out of all the billions who have ever lived, have escaped our world, seen it from the outside with their own eyes.
    — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 30 Oct. 2019
  • However, there is a high likelihood that privacy is not on top of the agenda for the next billion.
    — Payal Arora, Quartz, 5 Nov. 2019
  • These were paradoxical rivers, precious cold headwaters in the desert, the fish runs kept barely alive with billions in work-arounds and techno-quackery.
    — Patrick Symmes, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Wall Street sees Disney losing billions to launch streaming services before earnings rebound in 2024.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Too many Americans have died as the ruthless cartels have made billions by terrorizing communities and killing at unprecedented levels.
    — Fox News, 30 Nov. 2019
  • The two mega-deals cost AT&T tens of billions of dollars.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Google and Meta now serve billions of people around the world.
    — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024
  • For New York, the costs to support the asylum seekers are in the billions.
    — Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Turns out the answer is at least one of those billions.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The proposal raised the fury of the US and China, who feared billions in charges.
    — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2019
  • From our modern moment, eons billions of years in the past seem hard to touch.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2024
  • The very act of giving bullhorns to billions is both a boon and a menace.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 29 May 2020
  • And, even on the moon, glass does not last for billions of years without changing.
    — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
  • That’s not just good news for the billions of people who own smartphones.
    — Anil Dash, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Collins said this would save billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives.
    — Jon Lapook, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • And Pat Stryker made her billions the old-fashioned way.
    — Jon Caldara, The Denver Post, 13 Dec. 2019
  • For billions who live in countries without a free press, this is true.
    — Greg Jackson, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Even so, Musk’s absence appears to be worth billions in the pandemic era of the CEO.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 2 July 2024
  • Zambia is on the hook for all of the development with billions of dollars in debt.
    — Chris Megerian, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
  • A lot separates us from the kind of life that existed billions of years ago.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Millions of French consume billions of baguettes each year, and not just as fuel.
    — John Leicester, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Mar. 2020
  • But taking a slice of the hundreds of billions the U.S. government spends each year on goods and services comes with strings.
    — By Jessica Guynn, Jayme Fraser and Nick Penzenstadler, Usa Today and Will Evans, Reveal, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
  • There’s always this kernel of magic that comes with the idea of having billions.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 12 July 2024
  • The bank has also paid billions to regulators over the years.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 14 July 2024
  • The deal saddled the company with billions of dollars of debt, and opinions are mixed over the wisdom of Iger’s play for Fox.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • After traveling for many billions of years, light shifts into the near-infrared or infrared wavelengths, which are the wavelengths the JWST is designed to see.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2025

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