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Example sentences for "thousand people"

  • It was judged there were above a thousand people; to whom I declared God's everlasting truth and Word of life freely and largely for about the space of three hours.

  • I have seen upwards of a thousand people hang on his words with breathless silence, broken only by an occasional half-suppressed sob.

  • Preached in the morning to about a thousand people in my brother's field.

  • The minister having readily granted us the pulpit, I preached to about a thousand people.

  • There were these right in the yard--there appeared to be somewhere in the neighborhood of a thousand people.

  • No; I say I must have met a thousand people on the street--not a thousand making threats.

  • He said he wouldn't do that, he would have two hundred and fifty thousand people in the country down upon him.

  • In the afternoon 'he addressed a very great meeting of about a thousand people, in John Furly's yard, he being mounted above the crowd and speaking out of a hay-chamber window.

  • And in the afternoon the people gathered about me with several separate teachers, where it was judged there was above a thousand people.

  • In 1872 the volcano of Mirapi burst out and destroyed several thousand people in the province of Kadu.

  • An earthquake in 1693 shook the whole of Calabria and Sicily, totally destroying sixty towns and villages, and not fewer than one hundred thousand people.

  • I think it is my turn to write to you, and I therefore send a brief despatch, like a telegram, to let you know that in a gale of wind and a fierce rain, last night, we turned away a thousand people.

  • At nine o'clock this morning there were two thousand people in waiting, and they had begun to assemble in the bitter cold as early as two o'clock.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    agreeable surprise; came here; dancing school; dear nephew; foreign markets; irregular verbs; melted butter; thousand eyes; thousand fold; thousand guilders; thousand head; thousand horse; thousand little; thousand miles; thousand millions; thousand other; thousand people; thousand pesos; thousand pieces; thousand pistoles; thousand pounds; thousand rupees; thousand talents; thousand thousand; thousand warriors; thousand words