How to Use thousand in a Sentence

thousand

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• There are thousands of kilometers of water along the coast just put aside all the know shark gutters as no take zones.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• The truce in Lebanon could give reprieve to the 1.2 million Lebanese displaced by the fighting and the tens of thousands of Israelis who fled their homes along the border.
  — Bassem Mroue, arkansasonline.com, 28 Nov. 2024
• Like hundreds of thousands of Israelis, Shabtai serves in the reserves and has spent the past three months fighting in Gaza.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
• In the meantime, the amount involved can balloon into tens of thousands of dollars or more.
  — David Hilzenrath and Jodie Fleischer, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2023
• These solar storms can reach our planet in three to four days and travel at hundreds to thousands of miles per second.
  — Eric Lagatta, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024