How to Use million in a Sentence

million

noun
  • Over millions of years, NASA says, the stars will fully form.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Sources said the exact amount that was stolen is not known, but it is believed to be in the tens of millions.
    Alex Stone, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Tens of millions of tons of food that leaves farms in the United States is wasted.
    Alexandra Frost, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2023
  • That’s millions of people on the ground in all of the early states that want to see a change in our country.
    Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 29 Nov. 2023
  • This Romper Jumpsuit is a must-have item that has millions of views and likes on TikTok.
    Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2023
  • At its peak in the mid-to-late 2010s, the app attracted tens of millions of users and inspired viral memes.
    Angela Yang, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • AmeriCorps has touched tens of millions of lives in every state.
    TIME, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In much the same way that Ellis influences his millions of fans.
    Ebony Flake, Essence, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In addition to the live events, streams of the events have aggregated millions of views.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2024
  • And the loss of students has translated to a loss of millions of dollars every year.
    Ana Claudia Chacin, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Pulley expects to triple in revenue this year and bring in tens of millions of dollars in 2024.
    Forbes Daily, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The deal loaded Gannett up with debt and forced it to slash hundreds of millions of dollars off its books.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
  • Soon, billions of cicadas from two broods will emerge from the ground across large swaths of the U.S., so there is a high chance millions of pets will run into the bugs.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2024
  • After all, millions of dollars can ride on the half-rotation of a golf ball.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • In the past five years, the shortfall has led to the department shelling out millions of dollars in overtime payments.
    Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The tools were trained on millions of pieces of Times content, the suit said, and draw on that material to serve up answers to users’ prompts.
    Alexandra Bruell, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2023
  • He has been incensed that his money — and tens of millions of dollars from donors — has gone to legal costs.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024
  • And that doesn’t even include the hundreds of millions of streams Taylor’s Version has garnered so far.
    Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The largest of these operations can rake in hundreds of millions of dollars.
    Joel Khalili, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2024
  • And while combatants are dying in droves, the civilians caught between the guns have died in the thousands while millions have been displaced.
    Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • While the two-day sale is overflowing with millions of deals, some of the best ones are hiding in Amazon's overstock outlets.
    Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
  • Used for years by millions of people to battle cold and allergies.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
  • These images were published as part of an 11-page spread and syndicated for millions around the world, breaking all kinds of records.
    Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The flooding has already caused tens of millions of dollars in damage, officials said, with more to come.
    Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
  • Now, as the show heads to movie theaters this weekend, millions more will experience — and shell out cold, hard cash for — a moment with Swift.
    Emily Sabens, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • But the venture had one major problem: its first two designs didn’t work, despite the group burning through tens of millions of dollars over the course of a decade.
    Matthew King, The New Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Those fossils helped to create new fossils that have survived for hundreds of millions of years.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Still, the platform continues to draw in millions of daily active users.
    Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who’s ever dreamed of making millions from the true crime boom.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
  • But this will take many months and many millions of dollars of additional legal fees.
    Stephen Moore, National Review, 23 Jan. 2024

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