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Example sentences for "thousands upon"

  • Thousands upon thousands of buffaloes were killed on the Milk and Marias Rivers, in the Judith Basin, and in northern Wyoming.

  • Thousands upon thousands of buffaloes were killed for their tongues alone, and never skinned.

  • The lace and hosiery factories had with one accord closed on Tuesday, and the great Market Place was now filled day and night by thousands upon thousands of unemployed mill-hands of both sexes.

  • Thousands upon thousands of women of the middle class are being utilized as slaves in the shops and in the markets, and are thereby withdrawn from all domestic functions, the training of children in particular.

  • The whole arena began to spin and to dance before him, the marble columns were twisted awry, thousands upon thousands of distorted faces grinned hideously upon him.

  • In March, or thereabouts, the water begins to boil up in thousands upon thousands of places, in the little narrow meadows, just above the village; that is to say a little higher up the valley.

  • At this moment (5 o'clock in the morning) the groves at Barn Elm are echoing with the warblings of thousands upon thousands of birds.

  • And now when the Greek saw the eyes of thousands and tens of thousands upon him, he no longer felt that he was mortal.

  • With that cry up sprang--on moved--thousands upon thousands!

  • They spread along the field without the walls, thousands upon thousands, uncertain whither to fly.

  • Thousands upon thousands of human beings have been deprived of their senses by these and similar means.

  • The truth of the former of these assertions has now been proved in thousands upon thousands of instances.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thousands upon" 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:
    anything should; better world; chemical reactions; established fact; find employment; for they are foolishness unto him; generally speaking; golden hair; good for; grace unto; hear tell; hectic fever; married people; preached unto; regard the; severe punishment; thousands upon; true indeed; upper part; view the; what power; while some