How to Use ten in a Sentence
ten
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Then the Dutch brought in tens of thousands of people from China to till the land.
— Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024 -
The result was a world war that lasted four years and led to the loss of tens of millions of lives.
— Christine Adams / Made By History, TIME, 17 July 2024 -
No one under the age of ten appears to have died from the disease.
— Krista Langlois, Outside Online, 19 Mar. 2020 -
The state tried again in the 1970s, putting money in a parks bond to fund the purchase of tens of thousands of acres in the Sutter Buttes.
— Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2024 -
There are tens of millions of people watching the show, and loving the show.
— Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024 -
Seals and sea lions have been hit hard, with tens of thousands killed.
— Sam Ogozalek, Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2024 -
Those honored here are just a handful of the tens of thousands who've lost their lives.
— Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 24 Apr. 2020 -
In a matter of weeks, tens of thousands of tech workers lost their jobs.
— Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2024 -
In the years that followed, tens of thousands were killed in both cities by the radiation from the blast.
— Christian Edwards, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024 -
People come in the tens of thousands and sometimes the hundreds of thousand.
— Adam Rasgon, New York Times, 15 May 2020 -
This is dreadful news for the tens of thousands of high school athletes who tear their ACL each year.
— Luis Fernando Llosa, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2020 -
That number is now in the tens of thousands and is climbing every day.
— Tom Duszynski, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2020 -
Though the closure will affect tens of thousands of jobs, few are opposed to it.
— Julie Watson and Lisa Baumann, ajc, 7 Apr. 2023 -
The Birkin, a bag made by Hermès, can retail for tens of thousands of dollars.
— Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020 -
Now, tens of thousands of Mets fans are art collectors too, thanks to the giveaways.
— Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2024 -
This, combined with bloody street fights, left tens of thousands of civilians dead.
— Laura Moserb, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2024 -
The bags often sell for tens of thousands of dollars on the secondary market.
— Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023 -
The flame arrived back in Japan last week, drawing a crowd in the tens of thousands, prompting more health concerns.
— Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2020 -
At one time there were tens of thousands of haenyo, but their number has dwindled to a few thousand now.
— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Dec. 2024 -
The company sells access to the driving scores of tens of millions of people.
— Kashmir Hill, New York Times, 9 June 2024 -
Costs quickly run into the tens of millions of dollars.
— David Migoya, The Denver Post, 5 Dec. 2019 -
That’s a far cry from the tens of thousands that turned out to vote in the early hours of the 2022 primary and general elections.
— The Arizona Republic, 19 Mar. 2024 -
The stretch of road from the Capitol Building to Freedom Plaza was packed with tens of thousands of protesters.
— Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2023 -
Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world.
— Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 9 Aug. 2023 -
And then there are the tens of thousands who, overnight, found their lives upended and dreams dashed by the stroke of a presidential pen.
— Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020 -
Humans saving seeds dates back tens of thousands of years.
— Tamara Yakaboski, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2024 -
What would the tens of thousands of people who work in the health-insurance industry do?
— Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 9 Dec. 2019 -
This global deep freeze, known as Snowball Earth, endured for tens of millions of years.
— Liam Courtney-Davies, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024 -
The new record comes as tens of millions of people are grappling with extreme weather in the United States.
— Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 7 June 2024 -
Davidson boasts coral reefs and deep-sea octopus gardens, where tens of thousands of marine animals breed and feed, including whales.
— Scott Travers, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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