How to Use hundred in a Sentence

hundred

noun

• This has been the place of fishers for hundreds of years.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2023
• The gems date back hundreds of years to the time of Augustus the Strong, the elector of Saxony and king of Poland.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
• And hundreds, if not thousands, more could be closing in the months to come.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2019
• For hundreds of years, storms were named after saint days.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 2 June 2023
• For perspective, there were mere hundreds of cars on French roads at the time.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023
• The pattern of waves moves outwards from the center of the dial, and is notched with hundreds of tiny holes that play with the light.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2024
• The early screening was one of hundreds held across the country days ahead of the film’s wide release.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 20 July 2023
• The data is stored and passed along to one of Prime Wardrobe’s hundreds of stylists who help to curate items based on the style profile.
  — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 30 July 2019
• Rae-Venter and Heath’s hundreds of hours of research paid off.
  — Lauren Effron, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2020
• Singh spent hundreds of hours during her senior year to create the 15-pound piece – and 38-rolls of duct tape.
  — Amy Schwabe, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
• Around the width of Earth, with winds of 400 mph, this giant system has been churning over Jupiter for hundreds of years.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
• This year hundreds of African Americans will board flights to Ghana.
  — Heather Greenwood Davis, National Geographic, 5 Sep. 2019
• The wagon will provide hundreds of hours of fun for the whole family.
  — Rich Heileman, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
• There are hundreds — there might even be a thousand — crystals on it.
  — Nadia Neophytou, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2019
• March Madness draws hundreds of thousands of fans to arenas from coast to coast.
  — Ralph D. Russo, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2020
• The dress has racked up hundreds of five-star ratings from happy customers.
  — Jamie Allison Sanders, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
• Things kicked off in front of a raucous crowd in the arena, with hundreds of fans for both teams cheering on their heroes.
  — Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• So when a quorum returned to the Senate floor on June 15, hundreds of bills were ready for final votes.
  — oregonlive, 25 June 2023
• In fact, hundreds of styles were just secretly marked down up to 60 percent off.
  — Rachel Simon, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2023
• The Southland high school football season opens Aug. 17-19 with hundreds of games across the Southland.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2023
• Researchers say even rare risks like these may amount to hundreds of thousands of new cases, CNN said.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 11 June 2024
• With each new tree, the group tries hundreds of combinations.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2024
• There are some hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 27 June 2019
• Paramount to lay off hundreds of staffers in cost-cutting effort.
  — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• By both measurements, the T is still hundreds short of its goal for this fiscal year, which ends in seven weeks.
  — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023
• It’s earned more than 1,500 five-star ratings and hundreds of glowing reviews.
  — Isabel Garcia, People.com, 26 Oct. 2024
• But, for hundreds of years, the felony-murder doctrine has muddled this conceit.
  — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• In the port city of Karachi, police swung batons and fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of Mr. Khan supporters who had blocked a key road.
  — Munir Ahmed and Riazat Butt, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2023
• Until that changes, each year hundreds of men and women, both the guilty and the innocent, will die, desperate and alone in their cells.
  — Andrew Cohen, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2019
• In that time frame, Israel’s military has killed hundreds of militants and thousands of civilians.
  — Sarah E. Parkinson, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024