How To Use Thousand times In A Sentence
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Jonathan Steele, who recently returned to follow up on that story, quotes a young man who lost half his family in Halabja saying of the memorial, "If they rebuild it a thousand times, I will burn it down a million times.
Archive 2007-03-01
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English has hurt me a thousand times, but I still regard it as my first love.
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I taste an acerola, a bracingly tart red berry that, he says, has four thousand times more vitamin C than an orange.
The Fruit Hunters
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At a recent judo clinic I attended, eighty-year old 10th dan Phil Porter told us we would achieve that when we had done a technique ‘ten thousand times’!
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The material's specific surface area of a few hundred square meters per cubic centimeter corresponds to about a thousand times that of a polished silicon wafer.
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There was no worn channel for the creek, and its waters, dammed up, diverted, flying through the air on giddy flumes, trickling into sinks and low places, and raised by huge water-wheels, were used and used again a thousand times.
LI-WAN, THE FAIR
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A thousand times Mildred asked herself, "How can I go out and face the world with my name blackened by this great cloud of shame?
Without a Home
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A thousand times over she had longed to trade these countless beds for her secure pallet.
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He often recanted, and the recantation was a thousand times worse than the thing recanted.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
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It will change it's settings and objectives a thousand times a second, and it will move through our system like a bullet from a gun.
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For you, a thousand times over.
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To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times. Mark Twain
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I feel that it is not necessary for me to go further to convince any one of my readers that the lustfulness of the priestcraft is a menace to the chastity of womankind, for if this nun has told the truth, and which I know from past experiences is true, and which I also know is a recital that could be intensified ten thousand times over, if the whole truth could be told, but which cannot be told in this volume, as I have too much respect for my readers to recite what I have seen with my own eyes and what I have had repeated to me by broken-hearted "sisters" who have come to me with tears in their eyes and with sighs in their throats to tell me of their miseries.
Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light
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A person in their eighties is a thousand times more likely to develop cancer than someone in their thirties.
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I question whether all the officers of the royal navy can bring together, from all their journals, a collection of so many wonderful escapes as this man has known upon the Thames, on which he has been a thousand and a thousand times on the point of perishing, sometimes by the terrours of foolish women in the same boat, sometimes by his own acknowledged imprudence in passing the river in the dark, and sometimes by shooting the bridge under which he has rencountered mountainous waves, and dreadful cataracts.
The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV
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If she could turn back time, she would love to live that moment a thousand times over.
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X-ray spectroscopy can perhaps best be defined by the statement that the exactitude with which wavelengths can now be measured by his methods is a thousand times greater than that attained by
Nobel Prize in Physics 1924 - Presentation Speech
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The plasma flying out from the ablation layer implodes the fuel, compressing its density about a thousand times and causing it to burn.
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To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times. Mark Twain
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Imagine": we've heard it a thousand times, including today, as part of the Google animated logo on his birthday -- but it's still a great song -- and the idea, "Imagine no possessions," is more radical now than ever.
Jon Wiener: Lennon Top Five
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Whether you've read the script a thousand times, or don't know your Capulets from your Montagues this show is delightful.
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Imagine": we've heard it a thousand times, including today, as part of the Google animated logo on his birthday -- but it's still a great song - and the idea, "Imagine no possessions," is more radical now than ever.
Jon Wiener: Lennon Top Five
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A thousand times, YES! idiotic must reject and denounce and deject and renounce and project and pronounce and eject and enounce.
Big Pro-Hillary Third-Party Group Won't Be Funding Ads In West Virginia
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The North Pole, he said, was not so very far away, and the difficulties in the way of reaching it were not, on the face of them, so very great: human ingenuity had achieved a thousand things a thousand times more difficult; yet in spite of over half-a-dozen well-planned efforts in the nineteenth century, and thirty-one in the twentieth, man had never reached: always he had been baulked, baulked, by some seeming chance -- some restraining Hand: and herein lay the lesson -- _herein the warning_.
The Purple Cloud
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I knew it, just as I had known it a thousand times at the poker table, facing a thousand other bluffers.
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The company has made it a thousand times easier to track shipments, by having shippers fill out airbills online.
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My voice is calm and even-toned, like I had rehearsed this confession a thousand times over.
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For a hungry cub, fresh from hibernating in its winter den, the reek was a thousand times more interesting than blackberry briars or a pair of woodland strangers.
Ice Hunt
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No, sir, if Brother John _or you either, _ should drink one drop of the liquors mentioned and be expelled therefor, you would both be helplessly beyond the pale of the lodge, even though you had _both taken the obligation a thousand times!
Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective
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A conventional British billion is a thousand times bigger than an American billion.
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We have paid attention to the sluggish wanderings of the umbilical cord that will connect La Guaira with Santiago de Cuba, the boat that brought it from France, and the news which announced it will increase our data, image and voice transmission speed by three thousand times.
Yoani Sanchez: Fiber Optics to Control Us
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There was no worn channel for the creek, and its waters, dammed up, diverted, flying through the air on giddy flumes, trickling into sinks and low places, and raised by huge water-wheels, were used and used again a thousand times.
LI-WAN, THE FAIR
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Othellos, the Don Juans that illustrate to us that the fable is a game of chess played over and over again, a thousand times with whatever pieces destiny throws up at any given time.
Camilo José Cela - Nobel Lecture
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Second, a 5 exabyte store would roughly be eight thousand times too small to store " all words ever spoken by human beings ", at least in audio form.
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It is a matter of, "Do I want to listen to the same sermon I have heard a thousand times over yet again executed by someone who isn't even as proficient as previous preachers on the topic?
MIND MELD: SF with an Opposing Viewpoint
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It hath connected calls a thousand times.
Times, Sunday Times
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Under the new rules, schools will be encouraged to upgrade to 1 gigabit, which is a thousand times faster than the 1 megabit service that many schools use today.
Larry Magid: FCC Modernizes Broadband & Mobile Access for Schools & Libraries
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You will be stunned to see that the right column is one thousand times longer than the left.
Christianity Today
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As this is growing wearisome, I would now recommend for a change something else for a pleasure -- namely, the unconscious astuteness with which good, fat, honest mediocrity always behaves towards loftier spirits and the tasks they have to perform, the subtle, barbed, Jesuitical astuteness, which is a thousand times subtler than the taste and understanding of the middle-class in its best moments -- subtler even than the understanding of its victims: -- a repeated proof that "instinct" is the most intelligent of all kinds of intelligence which have hitherto been discovered.
Beyond Good and Evil
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I've been this route a thousand times before.
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That's why the killer bounce-and-rebound in Mario is a thousand times more satisfying than bottom-stomping baddies in a dozen other platformers, and why slicing enemies into chunks in Ninja Gaiden, screaming down out of the sky, dragon sword glinting in the neon and cherry blossom, is just more effective and exhilarating than chopping up chumps in other fighting games.
Eurogamer
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Hasn't anyone told Mrs Thatcher that bottled water can cost a thousand times as much as water from the tap?
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Don't forget, it's like jumping down from, let's say, about two meters on the ground about a thousand times a year, which seems not to be appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view," Kasper said in a 2005 NPR interview repeated in a 2006 ABC report on the eve of the Torino Games.
Women's jumpers still hoping for flight in 2010 Games
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A soldier would rather face a firing squad a thousand times over than just once have to look his own colleagues in the eye knowing he had failed them.
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Sometimes, when they had finished the dishes, Carol, intent on Connie's story, stood patiently rubbing the dish pan a hundred, a thousand times, until David would call pleadingly, "Girls, come out here and talk.
Sunny Slopes
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More fantastic, highly affordable family homes that are a thousand times better than anything many modern builders destroy our planet with.
Times, Sunday Times
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They pass into the form of vapour, occupy a thousand times larger area, and possess an elasticity of compressibility and expansibility they were destitute of before.
Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects
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English has hurt me a thousand times, but I still regard it as my first love.
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On a weight basis, a billion ultra-fine particles are about equivalent to one coarse particle 10 micrometres in diameter, but have one thousand times the surface area.
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It hath connected calls a thousand times.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had eaten the young of the fritillary a thousand times during his boyhood; they tasted delicious, juicy and sweet, just as they should.
THE BROKEN GOD
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That's an old joke - I've heard it about a thousand times.
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But he also spoke out against any suggestion that the union should disaffiliate from Labour and said it was a thousand times better to be inside the party than sitting on the sidelines sulking.
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To Pernelle, his voice was that of a man who had agonized a thousand times over insupportable alternatives.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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I can care about Newt and Gwen Stacy and Frodo and Captain Ahab and the Great Gatsby and on and on ... but I care about the Turtle and Abner Marsh and Tyrion Lannister and Jon Snow and Haviland Tuf and Daenerys and my own guys a thousand times more.
A Few More Last Words
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Until recently, scientists thought RGS proteins, which are found only in small quantities in the heart -- a thousand times less than other, more common proteins, such as myosin and metabolic proteins -- played no key role in heart function.
Health News from Medical News Today
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However I am about to change jobs and pressing the delete button a thousand times on my PC at work has been most cathartic.
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Damn! That matters not since I can do this a thousand times in exact 50 word sequences without even a hint of punctuation without breathing in even once.
50-word story challenge.
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JC: I could have sworn I must have fielded this a thousand times: because I could not find a worthy opponent in this over-palliated world!
Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0
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Despite a few longueurs, this latest episode has a thousand times more energy, more fun, more visual invention, more deliciously arch comic intelligence than anything comparable in the summer movie marketplace.
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Winehouse sounds as if she has performed a thousand times in smoky jazz clubs.
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It would be a thousand times better, said a great jurisconsult, to sell the treasure of all the convents, and the plate of all the churches, than to sell justice.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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On the escaladder he told someone, "It's cruel to tie ticklers to slow-witted snaily humans when ticklers can think and live ... ten thousand times as fast," he finished, plucking the figure from the murk of his unconscious.
The Creature from Cleveland Depths
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They fight him with the help of high-tech gizmos and near-superhuman feats: surviving car chases, leaping from a second-story window, dodging a syringe full of tetrodotoxin, “over a thousand times more lethal than cyanide.”
2010 February 22 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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Mrs.X. and you occupy a very light bed, which has a tall canopy of red "percale;" the windows are smartly draped with cheap gaudy calicoes and muslins; there are little mean strips of carpet about the tiled floor of the room, and yet all seems as gay and as comfortable as may be -- the sun shines brighter than you have seen it for a year, the sky is a thousand times bluer, and what a cheery clatter of shrill quick French voices comes up from the court-yard under the windows!
The Paris Sketch Book
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The flat is worth more than a thousand times his monthly salary.
Times, Sunday Times
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You will be stunned to see that the right column is one thousand times longer than the left.
Christianity Today
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I carried George Montagu thither, who was in raptures, and screamed, and hooped and hollaed, and danced, and crossed himself a thousand times over.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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It's said that in the old days the warriors of the Satsuma domain [in Kyushu] would strike a bundle of brushwood ten thousand times every day, but I could only manage about five hundred at best.
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And his personality is a thousand times more attractive than his appearance… so I guess I really lucked out.
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A soldier would rather face a firing squad a thousand times over than just once have to look his own colleagues in the eye knowing he had failed them.
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You will be stunned to see that the right column is one thousand times longer than the left.
Christianity Today
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Ms. Morgan notes that the stamp, of which 13 are known to exist, is a thousand times rarer than the famed Penny Black, the world's first adhesive stamp, issued in Britain in 1840.
Stamps of Wild Approval
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Anyone who can help me with getting this machine will be blessed a thousand times and thanked profusely.
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It taste a thousand times daintier than mine! btw: do you know how much milliliter is a cup?
Cream Cheese-Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies | Baking Bites
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Why punish with death for stealing a very little of _that_ sort of property, and make a mere fine the penalty for stealing a thousand times as much, of any other sort of property -- especially if by his own act, God had annihilated the difference between man and _property_, by putting him on a level with it?
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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Focusing on revenue is a thousand times more positive and productive than focusing on costs, which can prove debilitating and negative.
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Mikhail and his crew - a privateering crew of former Soviet aviators, often half-cut on booze, always unshaven and mostly the wrong side of 40 -- had been there, done it, and got the T-shirt a thousand times, over Chechnya, Iraq, Somalia, Colombia, the Congo and here in Afghanistan.
Matt Potter: My Adventures with Mercenary Aviators: A Secret History of Globalization, Organized Crime and Terror
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I think it’s funny that our breakfast at Blue Fin, while tasty, was ten times more expensive and a thousand times saltier than our buffet munchies from the Diamond six doors down.
Random Thoughts About New York City That Were Probably Too Long For Twitter
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She had told herself a thousand times, while rehearsing her lines in front of her bathroom mirror - and that had been since two days ago - that this was for the better, that she would, in fact, benefit from what she was going to do.
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I have been asked, possibly a thousand times, whether I looked upon that little book as in any sense the result of inspiration, whether what is called spiritualistic, or of any other sort.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896
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A thousand times that day, in the dark swamp, on the wide prairie, or under his rush-thatch on the lake-side, he tortured himself with one question: Why had she -- Zoséphine -- reached away out from Carancro to buy the uncultivable and primeval wilderness round about his lonely hiding-place?
Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana
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It hath connected calls a thousand times.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today's been a thousand times harder to cope with than the accident.
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Animals a hundred thousand times smaller than any visible with the naked eye have been discovered; these animalculae, however, move, feed and multiply, establishing the existence of organs of inconceivable tenuity.
The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
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Now can you tell me about a third child? hahaha I want three, hubby wants only two, but I keep trying to tell him no one even notices the third because adding to a brood is a thousand times easier than going from 0 to 1.
» Second Babies are Easier Strocel.com
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The regular doctor will administer a dose containing ten thousand times as much of the mother drug as the homeopath .
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Better to give the real, the only excuse, and say that the soil is so -- no, not adhesive, not sticky, not tenacious, but, to use a word ten thousand times more expressive than these, so _clarty_.
The Bed-Book of Happiness
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She must have heard of the three attainments and three excellences a thousand times, to judge by the expression—almost imperceptible, except around her nostrils—of scorn.
Wildfire
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To Pernelle, his voice was that of a man who had agonized a thousand times over insupportable alternatives.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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The two-stage design that resulted, tested on the Pacific atoll of Eniwetok on Nov. 1, 1952, yielded a terrifying 10.4 megatons -- a thousand times the power of the Hiroshima bomb.
The Atomic Bomb
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This book is a thousand times worse, force-feeding us a tale not only of the author's goodness, but the goodness of his long line of ancestors.
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As has been uttered a thousand times, it is not your common or garden Scottish golf course.
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On the contrary, is it not proved by experience that the satisfaction of having subdued them is a thousand times greater than the pleasure of yielding to them? — a pleasure always empoisoned, a pleasure leading to woe.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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But as a film it takes us inside a country in ghastly strife and serves to remind us that the horrors outside what's presented in the film were a thousand times worse than what we see.
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A soldier would rather face a firing squad a thousand times over than just once have to look his own colleagues in the eye knowing he had failed them.
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I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once. Thomas Wolfe
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Imagine the smell of a dentist drilling into your teeth magnified a thousand times or more as ivory was fed into cutting machines that had to be water-cooled.
Ivory's Ghosts: White Gold and the Fate of the Elephant
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Do not forget I am older than you are and my memory is one thousand times less muddled than yours.
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Because we are just as blind—no, a thousand times blinder than that old man in the wheelchair.
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It has long meant a story told in a hundred words: a structure as light and strong as a balloon that can carry its own weight a thousand times over.
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But old habits die hard and having knocked a few chips off the rock crystal he began opening and closing the brooch a thousand times.
Times, Sunday Times
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Francois Truffaut once said that the documentary is a thousand times more manipulative and deceptive than the work of fiction.
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Without her warrant it would have been coxcombical to believe it But the belief made her altogether sacred in his eyes, and he vowed a thousand times that no word or tone of his should ever offend that angel delicacy and tenderness.
Despair's Last Journey
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I miss this bed when I die lie me here in this bed~ where I died a thousand times before where I saw stars and danced and stretched and writhed and sang and swore and called out to a god oh yes ... this bed where
Wendchymes Diary Entry
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The decibel scale is logarithmic - a noise level of 30 decibels is therefore ten thousand times quieter than the sound of a conversation.
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Then you'll come home years later - tanned, cultured and a thousand times more intelligent that me - and settle down with a respectable man, have 2.4 children, a dog, a town house and cottage in the country.
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A formidable creature half lion and half eagle, the griffin is said to be one thousand times stronger than any lion and five thousand times as arsighted as an eagle.
Another Quiz – mythical animals
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That's Rigel which is the brightest star in Orion and is sixty thousand times more luminous than our sun.
RESCUING ROSE
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That'd been drilled into his brain years ago and now nothing else revolved in him but hatred, hatred, hatred, three thousand times a minute.
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A formidable creature half lion, half eagle, the griffin is said to be one thousand times stronger than any lion and five thousand times as farsighted as an eagle.
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Its bones were surely made of brittle glass, they seemed so fragile, and its heart thrummed like a miniature electric motor as it beat over a thousand times a minute.
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Light, when introduced in the form of navigation beacons on ships, crawled, the speed of light being several thousand times slower.
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Although not perfect, it is a thousand times more fraternal, equalitarian and human than any other project that others want to impose on us.
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All this, and a thousand times more of plotting and counterplotting, was going on among four children and their elders in a comfortable, free-and-easy seeming household in Washington, as the boys and girls, young men and young women were in the last agonies of making ready for Christmas.
The Brick Moon, and Other Stories
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English has hurt me a thousand times, but I still regard it as my first love.
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He has more energy and life force than most people half his age - and a thousand times more anarchic creativity.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, I believe that these complications will be a thousand times recompensed by the fundamental and long-standing significance of this enlargement.
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When the total real-estate occupied by the box, it's full frontage, is FOUR THOUSAND TIMES greater than the surface area of the toy inside, it's time for an intervention.
State of Play
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But the nurse suffered the pangs of a baffled stepmother, and looked with novercal eyes of hatred and disgust upon little Sam that had stolen away the hearts of men and women from one that in _her_ eyes was a thousand times his superior.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
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His "beau language" is mere slipslop; he mistakes the meaning of his original a thousand times; and by way, no doubt, of "accommodating it to the taste of the age," he patches it with paltry scraps from the common repertory of the "fast school" of his day.
The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
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Now if your tumbler was a hundred or a thousand times as large, the air would prevent the water from coming in, just as it does in this instance.
The Diving Bell Or, Pearls to be Sought for
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Yet that was the man I was destined to see stricken with fear a thousand times more hideous even than the fear that was mine when I saw that writhing abomination in Lottie Fairchild's hair, dangling over her eyes and the trap of her bodice.
Good Bye, Jack
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For instance, so-called nanobots could be programmed to attack and reconstruct the cells of cancer patients or perform surgeries a thousand times more precise than currently possible.
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I do so love my books, so much so that I couldn't bring myself to read books that had been thumbed a thousand times over.
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For the seizure of land by those with no official title to it is no more or less than what was done a thousand times over by European pioneers, explorers, colonialists and Empire builders throughout Africa.
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This book is a thousand times worse, force-feeding us a tale not only of the author's goodness, but the goodness of his long line of ancestors.
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English has hurt me a thousand times, but I still regard it as my first love.
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English has hurt me a thousand times, but I still regard it as my first love.
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A soldier would rather face a firing squad a thousand times over than just once have to look his own colleagues in the eye knowing he had failed them.
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Its luminosity will eventually become about a thousand times higher than today, and its vastly expanded diameter will reach the earth.
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Bearing in mind the other critical sin of giving away some of the best puns and visual gags in film history to readers who may not have seen them, all I will say is that the answer is yes, a thousand times yes.
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To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times. Mark Twain
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A thousand times, YES! idiotic must reject and denounce and deject and renounce and project and pronounce and eject and enounce.
Big Pro-Hillary Third-Party Group Won't Be Funding Ads In West Virginia
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More recent calculations by Simon Portegeis Zwart and Stephen McMillan tentatively suggest that there may be more black hole binaries in the Milky Way and other galaxies than earlier suspected, perhaps a thousand times more.
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Why did he punish with death for stealing a very little of _that_ sort of property, and make a mere fine, the penalty for stealing a thousand times as much, of any other sort of property -- especially if God did by his own act annihilate the difference between man and _property, _ by putting him on a level with it?
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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The word virgin was said about a thousand times, and every time she heard it, Celeste turned bright red.
A-J
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I would a thousand times rather have a homely girl, simply brought up, than a learned lady and a wit who would make a literary circle of my house and install herself as its president.
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Rok Pandemie feels like a cover I have seen a thousand times on books I don't want to buy, some apocalyptic techno-thriller, maybe Tom Clancy or Lustbader - not my cup of tea.
Book Cover Smackdown! 'Zoo City' vs. 'Plague Year' (Czech) vs. Firedrake
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I have been in agonies about them all! and I could not prevail – I could not – this gentleman said the risk was so great – he would not suffer me – but he has sent for a chaise, though I told him I had a thousand times rather hazard my life amongst them, and with them, than save it alone! '
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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Think Thousand times before taking a decision But - After taking decision never turn back even if you get Thousand difficulties!! Adolf Hitler
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That's an old joke - I've heard it about a thousand times.
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Everything, from a potted history of racism to a dissertation on Christian liberalism, sounded as though it had been said a thousand times before.
