How to Use thousand in a Sentence

thousand

noun

• Others saw it as the singer choosing to take in the moment and vibe with the crowd of thousands.
  — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Apr. 2023
• The war lasts for eight years, and hundreds of thousands of people die.
  — Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 26 June 2025
• Too Short’s early records would sell tens of thousands of copies around the Bay Area.
  — Tom Breihan, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• Hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled to southern Gaza since the start of the war on Oct. 7.
  — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• Hundreds of thousands more would follow them to the grave.
  — Caitlin Hu, CNN, 12 Jan. 2020
• Hundreds of thousands watched footage of the workout on YouTube.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
• Hundreds of thousands now live in refugee camps across the border in Bangladesh.
  — Isabella Steger, Quartz, 8 Dec. 2019
• Old Navy: Take up to 75% off thousands of clearance styles, as well as more deals storewide.
  — Chelsea Stone, CNN Underscored, 27 Dec. 2019
• Crusaders killed thousands in the Rhineland massacres of 1096.
  — Alan G. Futerman and Walter E. Block, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2023
• Hundreds — maybe even thousands — have come out of my kitchen.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• Meanwhile, the board’s paint has dulled and been scuffed up as thousands of people have walked across it.
  — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2025
• He’s said that being in the DJ booth in front of thousands of people gives him the rush of his playing days.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2023
• Some days, the crowd swells to the thousands; on other days, only a few hundred come out.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
• In fact, chamomile has been used for thousands of years to soothe anxiety.
  — Valentina Bottoni, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2024
• And there are thousands of campaign spots to be aired, so these numbers will shift.
  — Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2018
• But wolves have lived beside elk, deer, and moose for hundreds of thousands of years.
  — Ben Long, Outdoor Life, 6 Mar. 2020
• Yet the wrong code can lead to an overcharge of hundreds — or thousands — of dollars.
  — Stephanie Booth, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
• But experts had to look at hundreds or even thousands of records to prove that smoking was the cause.
  — Jared D. Taylor, The Conversation, 21 May 2020
• Now, tens of thousands of employees face the prospect of losing their jobs.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 10 Nov. 2024
• Net, the number of deathfic entries is in the hundreds of thousands.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2020
• They were not prepared for thousands of people to show up.
  — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• Hundreds of thousands were murdered, starved to death, or drowned at sea.
  — Jon Lerner, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
• Starting now, there's 40% off and an extra 20% off on thousands of styles.
  — Sophia Caraballo, Woman's Day, 29 Aug. 2019
• But the team doesn't have enough land to let thousands of fans tailgate on their property.
  — Steve Harrison, charlotteobserver, 5 July 2018
• Early in the war, Israel amassed hundreds of thousands of troops along the border.
  — Isabel Debre, Julia Frankel and Samy Magdy The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2023
• This black hole is thousands or hundreds of thousands of times more massive than the sun.
  — Remy Tumin, New York Times, 6 May 2020
• At the height of the windstorm, tens of thousands were in the dark in Nevada and Utah, where power has mostly since been restored.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
• Seabirds howl like banshees, and seal colonies, numbering in the thousands, bubble and blip among the waves.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
• Chinese customs officials are said to have seized many thousands of these that were intended for export since June alone.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2025
• Those people doled out thousands of dollars, believing that Whalen would fix up and manage the properties on their behalf.
  — Alexandria Burris, IndyStar, 13 Aug. 2025