Words similar to billions

Example sentences for: billions

How can you use “billions” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

To espouse two positions at once is to pull a Clinton . To adopt the hairstyle popularized by the actress Jennifer Aniston on Friends is to get a Rachel or to get a Friends do . A sagan is a unit of quantity equivalent to "billions and billions"--the quotation an unintentionally self-parodic trademark of the late astronomer Carl Sagan.
Worth billions, he reviewed every grocery bill and prowled the hallways turning out lights.
The NYT lead reports that on Sunday, the night before his second attempt to win confirmation as PM from the Russian parliament, Chernomyrdin used his TV address to defend and further explain the economic platform he rolled out last week: printing billions of rubles now to pay for years of soldiers', civil servants' and defense workers' back wages and pensions and to save banks, and cutting the profits tax by 50 percent and then in just a few months, strictly controlling the currency, collecting taxes and cutting government spending.
In the late '80s, for example, the nation was told that 375,000 drug-exposed babies were born each year; Washington policy-makers were immobilized by estimates that tens of billions of dollars were needed to protect these children.
USAT brings news that state treasuries are billions of dollars in the black, primarily because the economy's surge has boosted tax revenues and shrunk welfare rolls.