MILLION in a Sentence

Learn MILLION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
286 example sentences for MILLION, such as:
1. I have got close to half a million.
2. I hope it blows you to a million pieces.
3. You said that love me for a million years.
4. Up to five million people a year visit the county.
5. She got eight million dollars for appearing in that film.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of MILLION
million
 n.  the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
 a.  (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units
Classic Sentence: (146 in 10 pages)
1  The rolling foothill country of north Georgia was plowed in a million curves to keep the rich earth from washing down into the river bottoms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  When I first met you, I thought: There is a girl in a million.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  It was said that he was at the head of a combine worth more than a million dollars, with Wilmington as its headquarters for the purpose of buying blockade goods on the docks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  I hope it blows you to a million pieces.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  I have got close to half a million.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  The state-owned railroad had once been an asset to the state but now it was a liability and its debts had piled up to the million mark.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
7  Mrs. Tarleton had a brood mare and a colt and was as happy as though she had a million dollars.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
8  She waded down stilly cloisters between burnt stump and icy oak, through drifts marked with a million hieroglyphics of rabbit and mouse and bird.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  From them she got the same confused desire which the million other women felt; the same determination to be class-conscious without discovering the class of which she was to be conscious.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
10  Yes, sir, there'd be two million fully equipped Spanish soldiers fighting with us in France in one month now.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
12  The moon was coming up, and its mystic shimmer was casting a million lights across the distant, restless water.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
13  The water of the Gulf stretched out before her, gleaming with the million lights of the sun.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIX
14  It employed thirty thousand men; it supported directly two hundred and fifty thousand people in its neighborhood, and indirectly it supported half a million.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
15  For one thing, there was the economic crisis, the million or two of men who had been out of work in the spring and summer, and were not yet all back, by any means.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27
Example Sentence: (140 in 10 pages)
1  The total sales of the company didn't amount to more than a few million dollars.
2  You said that love me for a million years.
3  Total losses were estimated at over three million pounds.
4  Drugs have been seized with a street value of two million dollars.
5  The video has sold three million copies in its first three weeks on release.
6  Up to five million people a year visit the county.
7  I was making a million a year, but that's chicken feed in the pop business.
8  I would rather loan a million dollars on character than on any other collateral in the world.
9  The production of the film cost twenty million US dollars.
10  The government yesterday announced to the media plans to create a million new jobs.
11  The government has announced plans to create one million new training places.
12  She got eight million dollars for appearing in that film.
13  There are an estimated eight million people currently thought to be eligible to reclaim income tax.
14  Twenty million years ago, Idaho was populated by dense primordial forest.
15  A half million people watched the troops march in New York's ticker tape parade.