How to Use billion in a Sentence

billion

noun

• We could see a billion stars in the sky.
• So where will the the tens of billions a year come from?
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 May 2026
• Such a plant would cost billions of dollars.
  — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
• And with billions of stamps sold, that could be a very large number.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 6 July 2018
• The city has spent billions, and the numbers haven’t moved enough.
  — Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 May 2026
• Tens of billions are stashed in homes—even buried in gardens—or abroad.
  — The Economist, 29 May 2018
• The verdict could cost him billions.
  — Staff, Austin American Statesman, 20 Mar. 2026
• That will be billions of dollars to Iran.
  — ABC News, 14 June 2026
• Google and Meta now serve billions of people around the world.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024
• The billions of members of Goodall’s own species did too.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
• The billions are already spent.
  — Heather Conklin, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
• There are billions of men in the world who are less fortunate than you.
  — Adam Hurly, GQ, 26 Dec. 2017
• What about the billions without heat or light or clean water?
  — Robert Colvile, National Review, 24 Sep. 2019
• For billions who live in countries without a free press, this is true.
  — Greg Jackson, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• 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
• From our modern moment, eons billions of years in the past seem hard to touch.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2024
• Coastal tourism drives billions of dollars in revenue each year.
  — Steve Adelstein, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2026
• The changes would cost billions more, money that is just not available.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2026
• Taps that test at or above 15 parts per billion must be closed to children.
  — Brad Schmidt, OregonLive.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• And, even on the moon, glass does not last for billions of years without changing.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
• The tariffs have raised billions in new revenue.
  — Daniel Bush, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
• That, in plain terms, will mean tens of billions pounds more being spent — a lot more kit for the armed forces.
  — ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
• In our own Milky Way galaxy there could be billions of black holes.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• The cartels rake in billions of dollars every year from the trade.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2025
• Russia exports billions of dollars worth of fish a year across the world.
  — Nate Hegyi, NPR, 26 Feb. 2026
• Space programmes cost billions.
  — Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 8 Apr. 2026
• The fund's stake later lost hundreds of billions of won in value .
  — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2025
• And the guy who shields his billions while itching to raise taxes on the middle-class?
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 19 Nov. 2019
• Tehran also has sought the release of billions of dollars in frozen funds.
  — Julia Frankel, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026