How to Use billion in a Sentence

billion

noun
Definition of billionnext
  • We could see a billion stars in the sky.
  • Fans need to trust that the product they’re watching is legit, especially when that interest translates into billions in revenue.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Federal, state and local governments lost billions in revenue as liquor taxes disappeared.
    — David Crary, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Banning the company would delay the construction of its 5G network and cost billions to replace old equipment.
    — Adam Satariano, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2020
  • If just a portion of the billions spent on tickets each year was directed to carbon-reduction efforts, the music industry—and the world—could change for the better.
    — Eleanor Cummins, Popular Science, 31 Jan. 2020
  • And to power those vehicles, Hyundai is set to open a battery plant at the site, and is spending billions to open another one elsewhere in Georgia.
    — Patrick George, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
  • In addition to the billions in global ticket sales that will be lost, the virus could lead to a domino effect that would debilitate the Chinese film industry for months to come.
    — Adam Epstein, Quartz, 27 Jan. 2020
  • The class action, which involved gathering facial data for a feature that suggests the name of people in users’ photos, could have exposed Facebook to billions in damages.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2020
  • This spring, the Justice Department announced a major victory against a drug firm that manufactured billions of opioid painkillers.
    — Bob Fernandez, ProPublica, 17 Dec. 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
  • The very act of giving bullhorns to billions is both a boon and a menace.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 29 May 2020
  • 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
  • Zambia is on the hook for all of the development with billions of dollars in debt.
    — Chris Megerian, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
  • A lot separates us from the kind of life that existed billions of years ago.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Millions of French consume billions of baguettes each year, and not just as fuel.
    — John Leicester, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • These moves mark the next phase in virus fallout: What happens to billions in rent owed for businesses that have been closed?
    — Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2020

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