thousand

[ˈθaʊznd]

Definition:
1. The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100.
2. Denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units.

Use 'thousand' in a sentence:

• 1. The crowd numbered more than a thousand.
• 2. Twenty-five thousand turned out to be an overestimate.
• 3. The cyclone has resulted in many thousands of deaths.
• 4. Their takings were fifteen to twenty thousand dollars a week.
• 5. Two thousand is a nice round number—put that down.
• 6. It cost somewhere around two thousand dollars.
• 7. She gets as many as eight thousand letters a month.
• 8. Seventy thousand tons of oil spilled from the tanker.
• 9. Fifty thousand people saw the match.
• 10. Thirty thousand spectators watched the final game.
• 11. I'm out ten thousand dollars, with nothing to show for it!
• 12. A thousand kilometres separates the two cities.
• 13. He had nearly a thousand acres of grazing and arable land.
• 14. "How much is he paying you?"—"Oh, five thousand."—"Not bad."
• 15. Hundreds of thousands of people are at risk.
• 16. The college has five thousand teachers and students in all.
• 17. He was one of the few thousand committed Rastafarians in South Africa.
• 18. During the recession thousands of small businesses went broke.
• 19. Well, in round figures we've spent twenty thousand so far.
• 20. She has a few thousand dollars put away for her retirement.
• 21. Up to a thousand prisoners may be on the loose inside the jail.
• 22. A thousand supporters packed into the stadium to cheer them on.
• 23. You're talking over a thousand dollars minimum for one course.
• 24. Two thousand grey seal pups are born there every autumn.
• 25. A disastrous business venture lost him thousands of dollars.
• 26. There were thousands of people there ─ well, hundreds, anyway.
• 27. Thousands of young people are facing long-term unemployment.
• 28. Two thousand ─ and that's my bottom line!
• 29. The glass bowl smashed into a thousand pieces.
• 30. Cancer kills thousands of people every year.
• 31. There were thousands of people there.
• 32. A thousand people were there.
• 33. The company has spent thousands of pounds updating their computer systems.
• 34. How much is a thousand pounds in euros?
• 35. The strike cost them thousands of pounds in lost business.
• 36. That one mistake left him thousands of pounds out of pocket.
• 37. Thousands moved to the area to prospect for gold.
• 38. Fewer than a thousand giant pandas still live in the wild.
• 39. Thousands of people paid good money to watch the band perform.
• 40. He had run up credit card debts of thousands of dollars.
• 41. Several thousand people marched on City Hall.
• 42. Forty thousand children a day die from preventable diseases.
• 43. A thousand dollars is nothing to somebody as rich as he is.
• 44. Two thousand is a nice round number ─ put that down.
• 45. The damage was such that it would cost thousands to repair.
• 46. The fish lay thousands of eggs at one time.
• 47. The car cost a cool thirty thousand.
• 48. People flocked in their thousands to see her.
• 49. Thank you a thousand times, you're an angel.
• 50. The ivory industry employed about a thousand carvers.
• 51. Seventeen thousand Indians live in Arizona on a reservation.
• 52. Thousands were forced to migrate from rural to urban areas in search of work.
• 53. The system produced enough energy to heat several thousand homes.
• 54. There are thousands of verbs in English and most are regular.
• 55. Thousands of pieces of data are stored in a computer's memory.
• 56. Thousands of working days were lost through strikes last year.