How to Use billion in a Sentence

billion

noun

• We could see a billion stars in the sky.
• Google and Meta now serve billions of people around the world.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024
• For New York, the costs to support the asylum seekers are in the billions.
  — Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• And, even on the moon, glass does not last for billions of years without changing.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
• That’s not just good news for the billions of people who own smartphones.
  — Anil Dash, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2023
• Collins said this would save billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives.
  — Jon Lapook, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2023
• The deal saddled the company with billions of dollars of debt, and opinions are mixed over the wisdom of Iger’s play for Fox.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• Yet, the prosperity left the country with billions in debt.
  — Regina Garcia Cano, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• Behind the scenes, the league has started talks to secure the billions of dollars in media-rights fees that will help pay their huge salaries.
  — Amol Sharma, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
• Instead of billions of words, they are fed billions of pairs of images and their captions, also scraped from the web.
  — Szu Yu Chen, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• And there will be millions, probably billions of people that will have to flee.
  — Time, 15 July 2023
• In response, governments have pledged to spend billions to bring chip making to their shores.
  — John Liu, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
• This would only represent a tiny fraction of the tens of billions of pounds of chicken available for humans to eat in the U.S. each year.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
• Teams weren’t worth billions at the time, so this demand was fairly reasonable.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2023
• Her directive: hunt down the founder’s killer and—more importantly—free up the billions of ‘dead money’ frozen in his will.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
• The Epic case was the first to challenge Apple’s lucrative App Store system, which rakes in billions of dollars each year.
  — Leah Nylen, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
• The largest wilderness on Earth Boreal forests contain billions of trees.
  — David J. Cooper, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2023
• Some went to the fund’s lenders, and billions were spent on sponsorships, commercials and loans to top executives.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
• Fox News has made billions of dollars through that strategy.
  — David Bauder, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
• Plenty of franchises will be primed to use them to leverage billions of dollars in public funds.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
• Her plan to borrow tens of billions of pounds to fund tax cuts spooked bond investors who feared that the country’s finances were on an unsustainable path.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
• Musk took on billions in debt to finance his takeover, making the situation even more pressing.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 9 June 2023
• Enbridge argues that thousands of jobs and billions in economic output will be lost if Line 5 is shut down.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2024
• The agency has also invited the public to add their names to the spacecraft, which will travel billions of miles through our solar system.
  — Alex Chun, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2023
• By allowing the Houthi threat to metastasize, the Biden White House has put billions of dollars of global commerce on the line — a pain that will be felt by global consumers.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 18 Dec. 2023
• Egypt has received billions of dollars in U.S. military assistance from the U.S. since the peace agreement.
  — TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
• Major oil field investments, such as ConocoPhillips’ Willow prospect, could bring billions more in investments to the state.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2023
• Three firms, all located in the U.S., dominate the market for chip-design software, which is used to arrange the billions of transistors that fit on a new chip.
  — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• By situating stars in time and place, astronomers can retrace history and infer how the Milky Way was built, piece by piece, over billions of years.
  — WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
• Biogen and Eisai will be vying with Lilly for what analysts say will be tens of billions in Alzheimer’s drug revenue over the coming decade.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024