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How to use the word thousand in a Sentence?

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Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln

added by Normando
4 months ago

The 2019 image was just the beginning, if a picture is worth a thousand words, the data underlying that image have many more stories to tell. PRIMO will continue to be a critical tool in extracting such insights.

Lia Medeiros

Found on CNN
1 year ago

May God be happy with you a thousand times.

Mustafa Avci

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is not a small town, there are 1000 houses, and 7000 thousand people live here, of course, we are scared… if it was a little closer, it would have happened in the middle of our town.

Mehmet Kaman/Anadolu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

Michel de Montaigne

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1 year ago

It was just a drug-dealing game times 10, times a thousand, you get 150,000 pills fronted to you, and by the time you’d mail [the wholesaler] the check, you sold all them pills.

Zachary Rose

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That’s been happening over the last several years, at least a thousand cases have been reported each year, we expect that there’s many more than that that don’t necessarily get reported to public health.

Kathy Benedict

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Under existing plans, any remaining balance will be forgiven after 20 years of payments, but we’re also giving borrowers with smaller loans a path to forgiveness in 10 years, one shortcoming of the existing IDR (income-driven repayment) plans is that all borrowers must be in repayment for up to 20 years, even if they only enrolled in college for a semester or two or borrowed a few thousand dollars.

James Kvaal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite; who made ten thousand people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

David Lloyd George

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1 year ago

There's 200,000 people who voted for Brian Kemp who didn't vote for Herschel Walker and polling shows we're going to get 10-20% of those people, so that’s' going to be 10-20 thousand votes that he didn't get on Nov. 8 that he's going to get between now and Dec. 6, there's 81,000 people who voted Libertarian, and all the polling shows he's [Walker] going to win them two-to-one.

Ralph Reed

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

For violation of the ban on propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations or preferences among people of any age, a fine of 50 thousand to 400 thousand rubles for citizens, from 100 thousand to 800 thousand – for officials, from 800 thousand to 5 million or suspension of activities up to 90 days – for legal entities.

The Duma

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction.

Cesare Beccaria

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1 year ago

There is a direct correlation between the state’s sweeping anti-voter law, S.B. 202, and Cobb County’s failure to get over a thousand registered voters their absentee ballots, the anti-voter law put tremendous pressure on elections officials to accomplish a number of responsibilities under a very tight deadline, and in Cobb County, that pressure has resulted in a huge error and hundreds of voters at risk of being disenfranchised.

Rahul Garabadu

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If you’re sort of into that area of like, ‘you’re going to hurt yourself or somebody else,’ and you have a duty to report—I mean, the law is really clear about that—you can also talk to parents, though, about like that ‘your kid is having suicidal thoughts,’ without outing them, without saying why, you can say, ‘We have some concerns, your child has shared this,’ [but] I would one-thousand percent recommend working with the student to let them guide that process.

Kim Phillips-Knope

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Mr. Baldwin donated several thousand dollars to Roice McCollum to honor Roice McCollum husband, and now Roice McCollum's suing him for more because Roice McCollum disagrees with his political opinion about the insurrection that occurred on January 6th at the U.S. Capitol Building. We expect to prevail in this lawsuit, as we did the last time they filed it.

Luke Nikas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I could stay connected to your arms for a thousand years, I found the Africa to my India like continents colliding in the space of time. I would join all continents in search for your heart.

Heather Lydia Thornhill

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1 year ago

In my community, we have less than 1,000 residents. The thousand residents everyday live in fear of the invasion, we are doing the best we can with limited manpower. Terrell County has the least to offer … but we have a lot of border coverage.

Dale Lynn Carruthers

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

With maybe a thousand disturbed people in a state of millions, Cuomo reduced the number of beds so a judge could put an emotionally disturbed person into custodial care. Politicians refuse to expand that. New Yorkers are punished by those they voted into office and are returning us to insanity.

Michael Graae/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

For days, [Sonmez] raged with the fire of a thousand burning bras, sending a gazillion tweets calling for more to be done against Weigel, mocking her bosses attacking colleagues and letting the world know how much the Washington Post sucked. And this endless bickering and infighting continued online in public view until the bell rang and they all went to seventh period.

Washington Post

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Julius Jones sat and talked with them for a while. Obviously, Kim Kardashian took a thousand pictures with all the kids in the church.

Scott Budnick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We forget that good lighting can bring people to a space, help them take ownership of it, use it, the police don't have to be there, and the space is luminated and you can notify police if they're needed, neighborhood lights are 5,000( lumens), flashlights are 250, 300. Those are still bright, blinding in your face, that's 250 lumens. Six-hundred thousand, that's like hundreds of those flashlights turning on your face at the same time.

Art Hushen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Several thousand, tens of thousands, were forced to evacuate in the direction of the Russia Federation and we don't know where they are, they've left no document trail.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Rafa has thousand lives, if he’s down, he’s able to play at a great level in the tough moments.

Carlos Alcaraz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

According to preliminary data, more than a thousand people were hiding there, the probability of getting there to dismantle the rubble is low due to constant shelling and bombing of the city.

Petro Andruishchenko

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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