BILLION in a Sentence
Learn BILLION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
52 example sentences for BILLION, such as:
1. A billion stars shone in the night sky.
2. They've spent nearly a billion dollars on it already.
3. The final cost could be as much as one billion dollars.
4. Britons fork out more than a billion pounds a year on toys.
5. It may cost several billion roubles to make good the damage.
2. They've spent nearly a billion dollars on it already.
3. The final cost could be as much as one billion dollars.
4. Britons fork out more than a billion pounds a year on toys.
5. It may cost several billion roubles to make good the damage.
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Meanings and Examples of BILLION
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billion
n. the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros
a. denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain
Classic Sentence:
1 Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled.
2 The packers had secret mains, through which they stole billions of gallons of the city's water.
3 There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs.
4 At the end of all those billions and trillions of years eternity would have scarcely begun.
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1 All living creatures are thought to descend from an organism that came into being three billion years ago.
2 A single Marine Corps troop carrier costs more than one billion.
3 The government made an appropriation of a billion for the new project.
4 One billion people throughout the world are Muslims, united by belief in one god.
5 This year, almost a billion birds will be processed in the region.
6 A billion stars shone in the night sky.
7 The final cost could be as much as one billion dollars.
8 Looking still further ahead, by the end of the next century world population is expected to be about ten billion.
9 In the last ten years Imperial Oil had ploughed a billion dollars into the Canadian economy.
10 The national debt stands at fifty-five billion dollars.
11 Modern cosmology believes the Universe to have come into existence about fifteen billion years ago.
12 Five billion dollars of this year's budget is already earmarked for hospital improvements.
13 It may cost several billion roubles to make good the damage.
14 Britons fork out more than a billion pounds a year on toys.
15 They've spent nearly a billion dollars on it already.