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Example sentences for "many thousand"

  • Lycia may be obtained for so many thousand pieces of gold; but the opulence of Phrygia will require a more considerable sum.

  • He would have given him a soldier's death, and have thus saved the country many thousand pounds.

  • Already the Post Office was paying many thousand pounds a year for an express service between London and Holyhead which it did not require.

  • But we cannot obtain access to that which is congealed far beneath the surface under great pressure, equal to that of many hundred, or many thousand atmospheres.

  • It is well in this case to call to mind the vast shingle and sedimentary beds of Patagonia, which, if heaped on the Cordillera, would increase its height by so many thousand feet.

  • Many thousand pence is more than one shilling or pound.

  • Many thousand dollars' worth of supplies were furnished the northern counties when they were within the Federal lines or between the hostile lines.

  • The war had made orphans of many thousand children, white and black, and there were few people who could look after them.

  • Many thousand bushels of corn brought from middle Alabama had to be hauled 40 miles from the railway.

  • Most of the new books read were published in Atlanta, Richmond, or Charleston, though during the last two years of the war Mobile publishers sent out many thousand volumes.

  • This form had been introduced into English, probably from French, by Chaucer, who used it in many thousand lines of the 'Canterbury Tales.

  • The majority of people are most moved by hearing that so many thousand pairs of shoes, so many articles of clothing, or so many loaves of bread are given to the needy and suffering by some benevolent agency.

  • Our German patrons gradually left us, and it was only in 1870 that their assistance was secured again for a charity which was saving so many thousand children of their countrymen.

  • It often attains a thickness of many thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and is in full force in the north of Africa, as, for example, in Algeria and Morocco.

  • He marched from Damascus at the head of ten thousand of the bravest Arabs; and the genuine force of the Moslems was enlarged by the doubtful aid and conversion of many thousand Barbarians.

  • After this familiar, though important conversation, he again descended to Jerusalem, remounted the Borak, returned to Mecca, and performed in the tenth part of a night the journey of many thousand years.

  • The Bulgarians were sincere and devout Christians; and the safety of the empire, with the redemption of many thousand captives, depended on this preposterous alliance.

  • The city was taken, and the rest of the holds through the kingdom after it, to the great fall of all the protestants, and the loss of many thousand lives.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "many thousand" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    many cases; many cells; many colors; many critics; many days; many families; many fishes; many great; many horses; many individuals; many insects; many instances; many libraries; many lines; many members; many millions; many nations; many persons; many respects; many sections; many small; many votes; many waters; many were; many wives; water vapour