Stas relied simply upon this: that if he chanced upon the Wahima people, he would drill a few tens of warriors in shooting, and afterwards induce them by great promises to accompany him to the ocean.
Hundreds of miles are going to be what tens are now; thousands of machines will take the place of hundreds.
Twas like tens of thousands singing in some distant place.
Tens of thousands surrounded the great monument, immense and beautiful beyond any in the knowledge of men.
The male peacock, to take a concrete instance, would have developed its beautiful tail because, through tens of thousands of generations, the female selected the more finely tailed male among the various suitors.
We may be content to conclude that the starry universe over which our great telescopes keep watch stretches for thousands, and probably tens of thousands, of billions of miles.
It would be supremely interesting to trace the evolution of human industries and ideas during the few tens of thousands of years of the New Stone Age.
Until recently there was no other conceivable source that would supply the sun's tremendous outpour of energy for tens of millions of years except the compression of its substance.
As there are tens of thousands of different species even of "microbes," it is clear that we must deal with them in a very summary way.
The Index will effectually purge our libraries, and give us but tens where we have now thousands.
While the body, embalmed, lay in state in the east room of the White House tens of thousands crowded about it.
Meantime Boulton, with his many branches of business, and the low state of trade, had gotten deeply in debt, and was pressed on every side for the tens of thousands which he owed.
Tens of thousands of those men were husbands--hundreds of whom had been separated from their wives and children by sin.
It is good for succeeding generations that such words as the following should be uttered in the ears of tens and hundreds of thousands of young people, and reprinted in scores and hundreds of newspapers.
The Gambler "I have reached down into the slime, and have been privileged to help tens of thousands out of the mire of sin--and I believe that most of them will be saved, too.
Other tens of thousands were sons, over many of whom parents had long prayed and agonized.
Tens of thousands of persons have enshrined the homely phrase in the sanctuary of their deepest spiritual experience.
His life was normal; no different from that oftens of thousands of other American boys.
Lord, savetens of thousands of souls in this old city.
When it comes to counting up the aggregate size of Sunday's audiences, one is tempted not to believe his own figures, for the total runs up into the millions, and even the tens of millions.
But the verge of a period beginning in cretaceous times may have a breadth of tens of thousands of years, not to mention the possible existence of conditions calculated to multiply and reëxtend both species and individuals.
It is not long, geologically speaking, since the first raindrop fell on the present landscapes of the Sierra; and in the few tens of thousands of years of stormy cultivation they have been blest with, how beautiful they have become!
But all those new landscapes were not brought forth simultaneously; some of the highest, where the ice lingered longest, are tens of centuries younger than those of the warmer regions below them.
Tens of thousands of acres occur in continuous belts.
Thus tens of thousands perish for lack of knowledge of even the smallest, and yet most necessary conditions of right living.
And yet we hear, almost without a shudder, the reiterated statement of the loss of tens of thousands of lives yearly from physical causes in daily operation.
Tens of thousands of people collected in the Prairie this morning, half to see the races, half the eclipse of the sun, for they both began at the same moment, and the many coloured dresses and high Norman caps were most picturesque.
It's infinitely safer, too, for it's divided by automatically closing stops into tens of thousands of compartments, so a leak here and there makes practically no difference.
The churches on the left were outlined in light, up to the last high line of roof against the dark starlit sky; and upon the spaces in between lay the soft glow from the tens of thousands of torches that the crowds carried beneath.
If the new owner of that point had counted upon the new store which completely encircled him turning tens of thousands of folk past it each day he was doomed to disappointment.
And at Bagdad the market-places which have stood unchanged for tens of centuries.
In turn, these are poured by the big red-brick store into the pockets and the homes of its tens of thousands of patrons.
Bag o' Malt A bag o' malt, a bag o' salt, Ten tens a hundred.
It is a singular fact that of the tens of thousands of plans sold, not a purchaser ever noticed the absence of a parlor except one woman in Brookline, Mass.
Before long, the letters streamed in by the tens of thousands during a year.
Near this place is the volcano of Tarumai, a calm-looking, grey cone, whose skirts are draped by tens of thousands of dead trees.
Thousands of people believe in the winking virgin of Loretto, and tens of thousands, a few months ago, went to worship the holy coat of Tièves.
Geologists say that tens of thousands of years ago a great ice-drift carried away all the coal-depositing strata.
Not by any means the worst of the tens of thousands of cases all over the country, but impressive to me because it came under my own observation.
Of the tens of thousands who filled Royal Avenue, Donegal Place, and the broad road to the North Counties Railway, I saw none poorly clad.
Tens of thousands of laws, decrees and regulations will become just so much waste-paper; their only value will be an historical one.
Even to-day tens of thousands of persons who work in the large cities have their homes in the suburbs, because the improved means of transportation enable them to live in this manner.
These changes especially affected the cotton and linen industries, and deprivedtens of thousands of workingmen of employment, who were engaged in these domestic industries.
Tens of thousands of women of the poorer middle class are employed in stores and in other commercial positions, and are thereby almost entirely withdrawn from housekeeping and from the care of their children.
Similar conditions prevailed in France at the same time, where also tens of thousands of women were employed in various manufactures.
Being excluded from almost every decent means of support, tens of thousands of them fell victims to prostitution.
The destructive influence which has spread over the whole earth has brought to a premature grave thousands and tens of thousands of harmless beings, who have been charged with holding converse with this supposed enemy of God and man.
Thousands and tens of thousands of human beings came to a premature or violent death by rack and torture; the fires of martyrdom were lighted up, and millions of madmen gave glory to God.
We answer, nothing at all; for in consequence of the wickedness of the Benjamites, a war soon after commenced between the tribes, in which thousands and tens of thousands were slain.
To such a height has been his displeasure, that thousands and tensof thousands of your nation have been cut off by the terrible judgments of the Lord.
There is no need to close the wide portals against these thousands and tens of thousands who have gathered to look with reverence and rapture on this venerable assembly.
At an early hour carriages of every kind were pouring in long lines over every bridge across the Tiber, and hurrying on to St. Peter's, and tens of thousands were making their way thither on foot.
The Nines and Tens assumed airs as though they belonged to the Great Court Cards.
The Tens and Nines, with the Twos and Threes, and all the other members, had long ago settled there also.
This was the famous Island of Cards, where lived the Ace and King and Queen and Knave, with the Nines and Tens and all the other Members--according to the Rules.
So the Tens and Nines began to blow on their flutes and pipes; the Eights and Sevens played on their sackbuts and viols; and even the Twos and Threes began to beat madly on their drums.
Pan Gideon gave the order and they moved forward, but they had gone only a few tens of paces when the cracked sleigh-pole was broken and the equipage halted.
But the sight of armed men confused them; some began to follow the sleigh, others stopped a few tens of steps from it, or ran around with mad speed, as if to urge themselves on to the equipage.
The horses gained courage, and the wolves, impressed by the voices of men, withdrew some tens of paces.
These for some years, or some tens of years, at that time, were resting in their graves and in glory; but even of the mighty ones none had drawn so much blood from the followers of Islam as the king reigning then, Yan Sobieski.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
