THOUSAND in a Sentence
Learn THOUSAND 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.
386 example sentences for THOUSAND, such as:
1. He needed ten thousand more fresh troops.
2. The town has a population of ten thousand.
3. And he was a thousand times more thrilling.
4. That night there were a thousand campfires.
5. A thousand probabilities do not make one truth.
2. The town has a population of ten thousand.
3. And he was a thousand times more thrilling.
4. That night there were a thousand campfires.
5. A thousand probabilities do not make one truth.
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Meanings and Examples of THOUSAND
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thousand
a. denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units
n. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 And when she admitted it, modestly and sweetly, she would look a thousand things more.
2 A thousand incoherent thoughts shot through her mind, and she could not catch a single one to mold into a word.
3 "It would cost about two thousand dollars, Confederate money," he said with a grin at her woebegone expression.
4 And he was a thousand times more thrilling.
5 In Liverpool it would bring one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, but there was no hope of getting it to Liverpool.
6 In spite of all these trials and tribulations, Atlanta's ten thousand population had grown to double that number during the war.
7 Johnston had lost around ten thousand men in his retreat.
8 He needed ten thousand more fresh troops.
9 At the sight of the watch which she had seen in John Wilkes' hands a thousand times, the full realization came over Scarlett that Ashley's father was really dead.
10 That night there were a thousand campfires.
11 The clay had hardened, some time in this indeterminate day which had lasted a thousand years.
12 The world lay only a few miles away, but a thousand miles of tumbling waves might have stretched between Tara and Jonesboro and Fayetteville and Lovejoy, even between Tara and the neighbors' plantations.
13 She had privately gone through Gerald's pockets and his cash box and all she could find was stacks of Confederate bonds and three thousand dollars in Confederate bills.
14 "All our cotton--a hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth," said Scarlett bitterly.
15 They might be a thousand miles away or only across the river.
Example Sentence: (176 in 12 pages)
1 A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
2 One penny with right is better than a thousand without right.
3 According to the official figures, over one thousand people died during the revolution.
4 I need to deposit five thousand yen in my savings account.
5 The survey used a random sample of two thousand people across England and Wales.
6 The various building programmes add up to several thousand new homes.
7 The art of Biblical miniature painting has a history of a thousand years.
8 Over a thousand people braved the elements to attend the march.
9 Around ten thousand ravers were expected to attend the open-air party.
10 Three thousand audience crowded the concert hall.
11 One may overcome a thousand men in battle, but he who conquers himself is the greatest victor.
12 A thousand friends are few, one enemy is too many.
13 Britain has a dozen warships in the area, with a total of five thousand military personnel altogether.
14 The town has a population of ten thousand.
15 A thousand probabilities do not make one truth.