thousand

Example Sentences

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In addition to defending tens of thousands of American troops stationed in the region, the U.S. must also defend dozens of its embassies and other government installations.

From The Wall Street Journal

In both cases, the US sent thousands of ground troops into combat.

From BBC

Air routes closed, airports damaged and hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded: the new war in the Middle East has again highlighted the global aviation sector's vulnerability to geopolitical upheaval.

From Barron's

I went from dozens of followers to thousands —and then hundreds of thousands.

From Literature

“It’s the one about failing ten thousand times when he tried to invent the light bulb, right? Is that how long you think it’s going to take me to pass the Lincoln assassination?”

From Literature