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thousand

[ US /ˈθaʊzən, ˈθaʊzənd/ ]
[ UK /θˈa‍ʊzənd/ ]
NOUN
  1. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
ADJECTIVE
  1. denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units

How To Use thousand In A Sentence

  • In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme, that bulldozed major shantytowns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007
  • Does the plain, unsugared doughy type bagel look alike surpass the overly decorated with hundreds and thousands and pumped full of sweet chemicals with optional coating of chocolate (half dipped) Tescos Express doughnut win every time? Rabbit Stew. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Then there are the PIP implant problems that thousands of women have had to contend with. The Sun
  • Bounties were paid right across a banking sector whose incompetence threw thousands of innocents into jeopardy. Times, Sunday Times
  • A few uncounted votes or a few thousand voters turned away can be the difference between a national victory or not.
  • Human relations do not always rely on meeting each other in person every day. When we talk about relationships between people on either side of the border, just a few thousand miles can’t keep love from growing and blooming into a beautiful bonding. Gulzar 
  • The huge amounts that this would bring in would allow the personal allowance to be raised by a couple of thousand, helping those on low and medium incomes.
  • At the beginning of the war, the Nationalist forces had eighty thousand men. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
  • Together, they were able to mollify workers and quietly implement the destruction of thousands of jobs.
  • Day after day thousands of people die of confessing their loyalty to the Tokugawa shogunate.
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