Example Sentences

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On May 11 before the rally, People tweeted “Trump’s team expects ‘tens of thousands’ of supporters to attend this afternoon’s Jersey Shore rally, which may be among the largest of his political career.”

From Salon • May 21, 2024

White House warns of 'hundreds of thousands' furloughs White House officials expect "hundreds of thousands" of federal employees to be furloughed unless Congress acts to avert across the board budget cuts.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2013

Since 1918 the Hannibal Pharmacal Co. has been making toilet accessories, especially Neet, a potent, sulphuric depilatory with which thousands' of U. S. women have removed superfluous hair from arms and legs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus I have constantly ordered the extract of rhubarb, which is nearly twice as strong as the powder, made up into pills scarcely bigger than what children call 'hundreds and thousands' and silver-coated.

From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by West, Charles

"You really mean that you are not going to add a few thousand more to my hundred thousands' worth of education?"

From No. 13 Washington Square by Scott, Leroy