How to Use billion in a Sentence

billion

noun

• We could see a billion stars in the sky.
• And yet, Bloomberg’s billions couldn’t buy him a stellar debate performance, or even a mediocre one.
  — Lily Herman, Teen Vogue, 20 Feb. 2020
• Easily, a cool billion could be spent on construction projects in Birmingham over the next three years, alone.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 2 Feb. 2020
• Domestic oil and gas production are filling state’s coffers with billions in tax dollars.
  — WSJ, 2 Feb. 2020
• And carriers like Delta and American are also asking banks for billions in loans.
  — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
• Some key investments have earned bipartisan applause while helping red states with billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs.
  — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 4 Dec. 2024
• But there is a lot at stake even beyond the billions in sponsorships and television money: many people orient their entire lives toward those two brief weeks.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2020
• This cosmic merger is taking place roughly 570 million light-years away from Earth, and has been unfolding over billions of years.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
• Britain’s exit means the loss of up to 75 billions euros ($81 billion) in net contributions to the budget, and how to make up for that is causing friction.
  — Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Life on Earth began billions of years ago, and has evolved into the many forms that exist today.
  — Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2024
• Yet, the prosperity left the country with billions in debt.
  — Regina Garcia Cano, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• Behind the scenes, the league has started talks to secure the billions of dollars in media-rights fees that will help pay their huge salaries.
  — Amol Sharma, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
• These moves mark the next phase in virus fallout: What happens to billions in rent owed for businesses that have been closed?
  — Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024