How to Use billion in a Sentence

billion

noun
Definition of billionnext
  • We could see a billion stars in the sky.
  • Zambia is on the hook for all of the development with billions of dollars in debt.
    — Chris Megerian, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Currently, billions of acres of land are used for agriculture worldwide.
    — Mike Corder, oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The suits, if successful, could force the nation’s largest online retailer to pay billions of dollars in damages.
    — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The pink slips are flying this week at Walt Disney Co. as the entertainment giant seeks to slash billions of dollars in costs.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Schools were ordered to introduce soccer into their curriculums, and billions of dollars were earmarked for the construction of tens of thousands of fields.
    — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • And Meta's investing billions of dollars in reality labs to build a future that heavily features wearables.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Today, agriculture uses billions of acres of land, and the greenhouse gases released from food production make up about 30 percent of global emissions.
    — Alex Chun, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Two years ago, interest rates shot up after years of being at near-zero, making money more expensive to borrow for the studios who were spending billions to build out their streaming libraries.
    — Todd Longwell, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The two mega-deals cost AT&T tens of billions of dollars.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Google and Meta now serve billions of people around the world.
    — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024
  • For New York, the costs to support the asylum seekers are in the billions.
    — Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Turns out the answer is at least one of those billions.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • From our modern moment, eons billions of years in the past seem hard to touch.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2024
  • And, even on the moon, glass does not last for billions of years without changing.
    — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
  • That’s not just good news for the billions of people who own smartphones.
    — Anil Dash, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Collins said this would save billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives.
    — Jon Lapook, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Even so, Musk’s absence appears to be worth billions in the pandemic era of the CEO.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 2 July 2024
  • A lot separates us from the kind of life that existed billions of years ago.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
  • But taking a slice of the hundreds of billions the U.S. government spends each year on goods and services comes with strings.
    — By Jessica Guynn, Jayme Fraser and Nick Penzenstadler, Usa Today and Will Evans, Reveal, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
  • There’s always this kernel of magic that comes with the idea of having billions.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 12 July 2024
  • The bank has also paid billions to regulators over the years.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 14 July 2024
  • The deal saddled the company with billions of dollars of debt, and opinions are mixed over the wisdom of Iger’s play for Fox.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Life on Earth began billions of years ago, and has evolved into the many forms that exist today.
    — Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2024
  • Yet, the prosperity left the country with billions in debt.
    — Regina Garcia Cano, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Behind the scenes, the league has started talks to secure the billions of dollars in media-rights fees that will help pay their huge salaries.
    — Amol Sharma, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Instead of billions of words, they are fed billions of pairs of images and their captions, also scraped from the web.
    — Szu Yu Chen, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Not to mention, the billions of dollars needed to make the goals a reality.
    — Jonathan Horwitz, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
  • And there will be millions, probably billions of people that will have to flee.
    — Time, 15 July 2023
  • Demand has been far outpacing supply, forcing Lilly to invest billions to increase manufacturing.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024

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