How to Use thousand in a Sentence

thousand

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  • Others saw it as the singer choosing to take in the moment and vibe with the crowd of thousands.
    — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Too Short’s early records would sell tens of thousands of copies around the Bay Area.
    — Tom Breihan, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled to southern Gaza since the start of the war on Oct. 7.
    — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Hundreds of thousands more would follow them to the grave.
    — Caitlin Hu, CNN, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Old Navy: Take up to 75% off thousands of clearance styles, as well as more deals storewide.
    — Chelsea Stone, CNN Underscored, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Crusaders killed thousands in the Rhineland massacres of 1096.
    — Alan G. Futerman and Walter E. Block, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Hundreds — maybe even thousands — have come out of my kitchen.
    — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
  • He’s said that being in the DJ booth in front of thousands of people gives him the rush of his playing days.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2023
  • In fact, chamomile has been used for thousands of years to soothe anxiety.
    — Valentina Bottoni, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2024
  • But wolves have lived beside elk, deer, and moose for hundreds of thousands of years.
    — Ben Long, Outdoor Life, 6 Mar. 2020
  • But experts had to look at hundreds or even thousands of records to prove that smoking was the cause.
    — Jared D. Taylor, The Conversation, 21 May 2020
  • Now, tens of thousands of employees face the prospect of losing their jobs.
    — The Week Uk, theweek, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Net, the number of deathfic entries is in the hundreds of thousands.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2020
  • They were not prepared for thousands of people to show up.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Early in the war, Israel amassed hundreds of thousands of troops along the border.
    — Isabel Debre, Julia Frankel and Samy Magdy The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2023
  • This black hole is thousands or hundreds of thousands of times more massive than the sun.
    — Remy Tumin, New York Times, 6 May 2020
  • At the height of the windstorm, tens of thousands were in the dark in Nevada and Utah, where power has mostly since been restored.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Hundreds of thousands of birds are killed each year by wind turbines across the United States.
    — Jim Talamonti | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 27 July 2024
  • March Madness draws hundreds of thousands of fans to arenas from coast to coast.
    — Ralph D. Russo, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Hundreds were killed and thousands injured, and huge swaths of the city were badly damaged.
    — NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • While some of the ads reached only thousands of users, others spread far more widely.
    — David Gilbert, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Outside the palace, thousands lined the streets of Amman, many of them wrapped in traditional red-and-white scarves.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
  • The reports are based on the SamKnows testing equipment installed in thousands of homes across the US.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Either way, tens of thousands of vehicles are now double- and triple-parked on the many of the city’s thoroughfares.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
  • On Sunday, thousands of people took to the streets to show their support for the defendants.
    — Mike Corder, ajc, 3 Apr. 2023
  • There was also the fact that Mod, like hundreds of thousands of others, was a massive fan of the 2009 novel.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Related In the stands above, tens of thousands watch the show, dancing to live orchestras.
    — Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Hundreds of thousands have been displaced from their homes.
    — Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
  • As a result, Ballad Health expects that thousands of patients will be safer from adverse drug events.
    — Gil Press, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • At least five people have died, roughly 1,000 structures have been destroyed and tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate as multiple fires menace the L.A. area and encroach on its suburbs.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2025

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