Example sentences for: billions

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

  • They showed their faith by shoving billions into Asian equity markets, while foreign banks contentedly handed out billions in loans.

  • Yet the prospect of an atomic apocalypse is so terrible that few can argue against spending tens of billions of dollars for insurance against remote possibilities.

  • In the happy months before Pokémon dolls are chucked into the Toys "R" Us remainder bins with Trolls, Pogs, and Ninja Turtles, let us pause to reflect on the lesson of the Pokémon billions: This money could have been yours.

  • No proposal has ever identified clear savings for taxpayers from eliminating the DOE--at least, none that rivals the billions the department saved under the Clinton administration (by undertaking contract reform, cutting waste, privatizing, and streamlining operations).

  • Root-knot nematode species, including Meloidogyne incognita , are the most important of the plant parasitic nematodes, infecting almost all cultivated plants, and are responsible for billions of dollars in crop losses annually [ 1 2 ] . They are obligatory sedentary endoparasites with a 1- to 2-month life cycle.


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