Example sentences for: thousands

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

  • The LAT says 200 or more have been killed and thousands of residents have fled.

  • Slavery has been part of organized human society for thousands of years; people should not assume that it has breathed its last.

  • Various parties in the dispute blamed: 1) Ocalan, for causing thousands of deaths over the years; 2) Turkey, for suppressing the Kurds and barring Ocalan's lawyers from his upcoming trial; 3) Greece, for helping him evade capture; and 4) Israel, for allegedly facilitating his capture.

  • Actually, the school system is in bad enough shape that there's major support behind breaking up the district, and the police force has a metastasizing scandal in one of its central-city stations (thousands of cases may have to be reopened, due to revelations that, yes, Alan Dershowitz is right, the cops do lie), so, aside from the weather and the economy, it's not all that golden.

  • Meanwhile, reported London's Daily Telegraph, thousands of protest marchers in Seoul were demanding imprisonment for President Kim and renegotiation of the rescue deal imposed by the "colonial" IMF.


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