thousand days

American  

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. the presidential administration of John F. Kennedy, which lasted 1037 days (January 20, 1961, to November 22, 1963).

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Example Sentences

Over the next thousand days, Ingenuity continued to go up and down, up and down, up and down.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2024

For some, this meant eating only tree bark, pine needles, pine cones, seeds, chestnuts or even stones and crystals for a period of a thousand or several thousand days.

From National Geographic • Jan. 19, 2024

When I started writing the book, he had gone to the park a thousand days in a row.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2021

Stanley Tapscott started driving a cab in the early 1960s, when man hadn’t yet been to the moon, the Watergate was under construction and John F. Kennedy was serving out his fabled thousand days.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2016

There's about a thousand days of food I don't have.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir