thousands
- plural of thousand.
Example Sentences
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India is home to thousands of seafarers who work on ships around the world, often for months at a time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
He still talks with the same accent as the thousands cheering him around the Merseyside links.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The parasitic disease has made thousands of people sick with debilitating bouts of diarrhea this summer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
We still don’t know what exactly is driving our national outbreak of cyclosporiasis, the parasitic infection that has stricken thousands of Americans with explosive diarrhea.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
I went from dozens of followers to thousands —and then hundreds of thousands.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
