How to Use ten in a Sentence

ten

noun

• 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
• 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
• The company sells access to the driving scores of tens of millions of people.
  — Kashmir Hill, New York Times, 9 June 2024
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 9 Aug. 2023
• Humans saving seeds dates back tens of thousands of years.
  — Tamara Yakaboski, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 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
• Some retirees are bracing to be billed tens of thousands of dollars.
  — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 15 May 2023
• The burglar stole 106 rare clocks worth tens of millions of dollars, then vanished without a trace.
  — Fern Reiss, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2023
• Finding a dependable big may not be click bait, but probably makes the top-ten to do list.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 June 2022
• Within days, tens of thousands of utility customers were in the dark.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
• Join me in shopping for kitchen dish towels on Amazon, where there are tens of thousands of fresh options to choose from.
  — Laura Gurfein, Peoplemag, 20 May 2024
• Soon-Shiong’s willingness to underwrite tens of millions of dollars of losses per year has made cuts at The Times, though painful, less extreme than at the some of country’s biggest newspaper chains.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
• The great wealth transfer, which could see tens of trillions of dollars in wealth passed from older generations to younger generations, could also usher in a great art transfer.
  — Robert Frank, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024