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.