Sentence examples for thousand from high-quality English sources.

• Nine thousand in London.

• A hundred thousand francs—a hundred thousand francs.”

• As stated before, Banks failed to accomplish what he had been sent to do on the Red River, and eliminated the use of forty thousand veterans whose cooperation in the grand campaign had been expected—ten thousand with Sherman and thirty thousand against Mobile.

• “Seven hundred thousand of them.

• Ten thousand dollars was freedom.

• Six thousand soldiers were detained.

• What was the last five thousand—13:12?

• Today, there are thirty-five thousand.

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• Seventy-five thousand dollars on art supplies.

• Fewer than five hundred thousand are thought to remain.

• They had monthly expenses of between fifteen thousand and twenty thousand rupees.

• London’s homicide rate is also normally around two per hundred thousand, and Rome’s around one per hundred thousand.

• “The Sun Also Rises” sold just over five thousand and “The Great Gatsby” a little over twenty thousand copies in their first printings.

• Since 2009, more than thirty-thousand Afghan civilians have been killed and fifty-six thousand have been wounded, most in insurgent attacks.

• TRUTH: At the Battle of Thermopylae, seven thousand Greek and Spartan soldiers held off a hundred and fifty thousand Persians for three days.

• Today, there are sixty thousand prisoners, the great majority of whom are packed into thirteen central prisons built to house twelve thousand.

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• The number of victims hardly matters—there is little psychological difference between hearing about the suffering of five thousand and that of five hundred thousand.

• But this, he said, is hardly the point: “It doesn’t make any difference really if a hundred thousand read the book or ten thousand or five thousand, frankly.

• In 2018, he made twenty-seven thousand dollars in overtime and thirty-one thousand dollars in “other pay,” and received twenty-two thousand dollars’ worth of benefits.

• Nightwine said that he had taken out a fourteen-thousand-dollar loan and paid six thousand dollars from his savings, and had received a five-thousand-dollar Pell Grant and nearly thirty thousand dollars from the university.