How to Use million in a Sentence

million

noun
  • But for millions who watch it on TV, the race is secondary to the scenery.
    — Eric Tegler, Ars Technica, 11 July 2019
  • Over millions of years, NASA says, the stars will fully form.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Sources said the exact amount that was stolen is not known, but it is believed to be in the tens of millions.
    — Alex Stone, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Tens of millions of tons of food that leaves farms in the United States is wasted.
    — Alexandra Frost, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The millions he’s made from the GoJo sale don’t hurt either.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 30 May 2023
  • That’s millions of people on the ground in all of the early states that want to see a change in our country.
    — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 29 Nov. 2023
  • He will be mourned and missed by everyone who knew him and the millions who love him.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 4 Mar. 2019
  • This tail can stretch millions of miles and always points away from the sun due to solar wind.
    — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Though no number is named, such an amount could be in the hundreds of millions.
    — Angela Chen, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2018
  • While there is no price tag yet, the proposal could be in the hundreds of millions.
    — oregonlive, 9 Dec. 2019
  • A few weeks add up to millions of years from his perspective.
    — Josh Wilbur, WIRED, 4 June 2019
  • This Romper Jumpsuit is a must-have item that has millions of views and likes on TikTok.
    — Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Hundreds of millions a year are coming in through there.
    — David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 18 July 2019
  • At its peak in the mid-to-late 2010s, the app attracted tens of millions of users and inspired viral memes.
    — Angela Yang, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Factor in the seed oysters shipped across the nation and beyond, and the number jumps to the hundreds of millions.
    — Richard Stenger, SFChronicle.com, 3 July 2018
  • There’s hundreds of millions of people that do right now.
    — Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
  • And for millions waiting on an upgrade, the XR might be the right phone at the right time; Here’s a roundup of early reviews.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 23 Oct. 2018
  • All around the world, hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of the metal has been stolen—and countless lives have been lost.
    — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
  • AmeriCorps has touched tens of millions of lives in every state.
    — TIME, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The war’s bloody grind has killed tens of thousands, destroyed the country’s economy and pushed millions to the brink of famine.
    — Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2019
  • In just a few short hundreds of millions of years, the majestic rings of Saturn will be gone.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 19 Dec. 2018
  • More than 5 million people in the U.S. and millions more worldwide have Alzheimer's.
    — Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2019
  • In much the same way that Ellis influences his millions of fans.
    — Ebony Flake, Essence, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Restaurants take millions of dollars to build, millions of dollars to fund the first year.
    — Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The model then is trained to remove this noise, over and over, for tens of thousands, if not millions, of images.
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
  • In addition to the live events, streams of the events have aggregated millions of views.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2024
  • And the loss of students has translated to a loss of millions of dollars every year.
    — Ana Claudia Chacin, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Pulley expects to triple in revenue this year and bring in tens of millions of dollars in 2024.
    — Forbes Daily, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The New York congresswoman said the spending bill will hurt millions.
    — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2025
  • His medical center relies on millions of dollars in federal support to treat all its patients.
    — Emma Tucker, CNN, 15 Mar. 2025

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