Example sentences for: thousands

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

  • The same is true of heroine and thousands of other words.

  • General Packenham, the brother-in-law of the Duke of Wellington (famous for his war successes), had been shot, thousands of his troops had been killed, and the tattered survivors withdrew in disarray.

  • In fiber diffraction there is not enough information, by orders of magnitude, to locate every atom, as would be possible in diffraction by perfect crystals that give thousands of sharp reflections.

  • Both the rebel and government armies have conscripted thousands of boys and girls, who make cheap and loyal (and especially vicious) soldiers.

  • Thousands of demonstrators mobbed Seattle this week to protest the Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization.


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