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Example sentences for "billion"

Lexicographically close words:
billhook; billiard; billiards; billies; billing; billionaire; billions; billionth; billon; billot
  1. Across the universe, two billion years ago, there too a planet coalesced from the mutually attracted vortices of twisted space; gases compelled by gravitational forces solidifying to hardened matter, forming a crust over a molten core.

  2. A million or a billion may come here to seek the method that can change things to fit the equation of desire, before one comes who asks a question even you have not conceived.

  3. At that point I must draw your Majesty's attention to an essential point in the original indictment, namely the admission that this monster possesses roughly three billion heads.

  4. You recognize a few general patterns, but the simplest human individual is not to be duplicated in a billion centuries.

  5. The two billion votes from Ganymede and Callisto, which will be received early tomorrow morning, cannot appreciably affect the results.

  6. Three billion people watching the home fleet take off, knowing the skies were open for all the hell that a savage enemy could send!

  7. Five billion Earthmen would read of their "generosity" to Meloa, and any guilt they felt for their desertion would vanish in a smug satisfaction at their charity.

  8. The Russian Tsar had borrowed four billion dollars from France and a billion or two from England, to be used in enslaving the Russian workers and driving several millions of them to death on the battlefield.

  9. Behind them is a stalwart business representing, with parts and accessory makers, an investment of more than a billion and a quarter of dollars.

  10. It includes one hundred and eighty makers, whose capitalization is three hundred millions, and whose investment is more than half a billion dollars.

  11. Look at the gold and jewels he tossed to the clerk, several million dol--I mean, several billion rubles.

  12. Ah, you just love me for my two billion dollars," the imp retorted, and winked at her.

  13. I doubt if there were a billion birds in all the Crooked and Maple nestings.

  14. Audubon estimated that an average flock of these pigeons contained a billion and a quarter of birds, which consumed more than eight and a half million bushels of mast in a day's feeding.

  15. Today, we are 40-percent dependent, and we'll pay out $34 billion for foreign oil this year.

  16. To help States and local governments give better health care to the poor, I propose that we combine 16 existing Federal programs, including Medicaid, into a single $10 billion Federal grant.

  17. To make the United States invulnerable to foreign disruption, I propose standby emergency legislation and a strategic storage program of 1 billion barrels of oil for domestic needs and 300 million barrels for national defense purposes.

  18. I will propose in the new budget that Congress authorize almost $7 billion over the next 5 years to assist State and local governments to protect the safety and property of all their citizens.

  19. Congress now costs the taxpayers more than a million dollars per Member; the whole legislative budget has passed the billion dollar mark.

  20. Federal programs today provide more funds for our States and local governments than ever before--$70 billion for the current fiscal year.

  21. Revenues of some $30 billion from higher energy taxes designed to encourage conservation must be refunded to the American people in a manner which corrects distortions in our tax system wrought by inflation.

  22. State and local governments will receive $2 billion in additional revenue sharing to offset their increased energy costs.

  23. New students swarmed in armies to his University, and he presently issued a billion more shares of Chickle common.

  24. It is estimated that Whatcom county has three billion feet of standing timber.

  25. Originally its entire area, barring a few small patches, was heavily timbered, and it is estimated that the county still has twenty billion feet of standing timber.

  26. Steve," she said quietly, "A billion girls have sworn that they'd rather die than live without their one and only.

  27. So now add up your time to take care of about three billion human souls on this Earth, Steve.

  28. Who knows, maybe by that time we'll have a hundred billion people enjoying peace and progress and prosperity.

  29. It would still cost roughly a billion dollars to equip a flight and maintain a personnel of twenty men for a year," the President told him.

  30. He held it tightly while he looked uncomfortably at the three billion spread out before him.

  31. There was nearly a billion there, he estimated roughly.

  32. To be precise, we need three billion credits.

  33. Counting the chips as they were pushed over to him he added up a bit under two billion credits.

  34. Everything above the three billion you can keep, that should be fair enough.

  35. They would be winning that much if he left the game now--but it wasn't the three billion that Kerk needed.

  36. If our finite minds formed a billion facts, then its mind, knowing our billion, would make a universe composed of a billion and one facts.

  37. About one billion parcels, weighing over two billion pounds, are handled annually.

  38. In the presence of the present high price of everything carried by the railways, there is no ground for assuming that any portion of this half billion dollars withheld from the railways ever reached the ultimate consumer.

  39. With the Macks' billion dollar infield killing base hits for him and the attack getting him eight runs, he would have had a hard time slipping the game to McGraw if he had sold out before hostilities started.

  40. Eliot, if applied to all the twenty million children of school age in the United States, would mean the expenditure of two billion instead of three hundred and fifty million dollars per year on public education.

  41. And, finally, is not unemployment costing a billion a year to the "nation, considered as a business firm"?

  42. But this reform alone would certainly require not one but several billion dollars a year; as much as all the other improvements mentioned by Dr.

  43. According to this view, Professor Irving Fisher of Yale has calculated that the annual child crop in the United States is worth about seven billion dollars per annum, a sum almost equal to the annual value of our agricultural crops.

  44. I give you leave to subject him to a billion years of misery for this offense.

  45. Am I not, to a man, as is a billion solar systems to a grain of sand?

  46. Go lift thine eyes from death-charged guns To one who made a billion suns; And trust and wait.

  47. God has a billion books of our prayers unopened upon his shelves, For the things we are begging Him to do, He wants us to do ourselves.

  48. It is claimed that this forest area may still produce some 110 billion feet of coniferous and 1.

  49. He estimated that half a billion dollars, Chinese, was lost yearly, through this politically established economic oppression.

  50. Under these six headings Sun Yat-sen estimated the Chinese tribute to Western imperialism to be not less than one billion two hundred millions a year, silver.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "billion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    billion; considerable; infinity; many; million; multifarious; multifold; multiple; multitudinous; myriad; number; numerous; thousand


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    billion dollars; billion expenditures; billion feet