How to Use ten in a Sentence

ten

noun

• Starshot aims to launch up to tens of thousands of StarChips per year.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 10 May 2018
• Some videos have even climbed into the tens of millions of views.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 29 July 2019
• Then the Dutch brought in tens of thousands of people from China to till the land.
  — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
• The result was a world war that lasted four years and led to the loss of tens of millions of lives.
  — Christine Adams / Made By History, TIME, 17 July 2024
• No one under the age of ten appears to have died from the disease.
  — Krista Langlois, Outside Online, 19 Mar. 2020
• The war has raged for more than three years and cost the lives of tens of thousands of people on both sides.
  — Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 19 Apr. 2025
• Each of these programs would cost in the tens of billions of dollars.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2019
• The climate has been changing for tens of thousands of years.
  — Michael Wilner, sun-sentinel.com, 10 July 2019
• The state tried again in the 1970s, putting money in a parks bond to fund the purchase of tens of thousands of acres in the Sutter Buttes.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2024
• There are tens of millions of people watching the show, and loving the show.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
• Thousands — sometimes tens of thousands — tune in to the cam, which has been in place since 2015.
  — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
• Seals and sea lions have been hit hard, with tens of thousands killed.
  — Sam Ogozalek, Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2024
• Those honored here are just a handful of the tens of thousands who've lost their lives.
  — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 24 Apr. 2020
• The losses were sometimes in the tens of thousands of dollars, the release said.
  — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2019
• During the day, the site handles tens of thousands of requests.
  — Matt Butcher, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
• In a matter of weeks, tens of thousands of tech workers lost their jobs.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2024
• The camp, the second largest in the world, had sprung up in the summer of 2016 as tens of thousands of refugees fled the civil war in South Sudan.
  — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 20 June 2019
• In the years that followed, tens of thousands were killed in both cities by the radiation from the blast.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
• People come in the tens of thousands and sometimes the hundreds of thousand.
  — Adam Rasgon, New York Times, 15 May 2020
• This is dreadful news for the tens of thousands of high school athletes who tear their ACL each year.
  — Luis Fernando Llosa, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2020
• That number is now in the tens of thousands and is climbing every day.
  — Tom Duszynski, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2020
• Though the closure will affect tens of thousands of jobs, few are opposed to it.
  — Julie Watson and Lisa Baumann, ajc, 7 Apr. 2023
• The Birkin, a bag made by Hermès, can retail for tens of thousands of dollars.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020
• Now, tens of thousands of Mets fans are art collectors too, thanks to the giveaways.
  — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2024
• The mob swelled to the tens of thousands and began howling at her on social media.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
• But more is needed to make this easier for the tens of thousands who drive 101 each day.
  — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 29 July 2019
• This, combined with bloody street fights, left tens of thousands of civilians dead.
  — Laura Moserb, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2024
• The bags often sell for tens of thousands of dollars on the secondary market.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
• If what Josef tells us is right, this forest has been speaking more or less like this for tens of thousands of years or more—way back into the Ice Age.
  — Daegan Miller june 5, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025
• The investment promised to reignite domestic chip production, generate tens of thousands of jobs, and anchor a high-tech corridor in the Midwest.
  — Angela Jackson, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025