How to Use million in a Sentence

million

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  • 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
  • This Romper Jumpsuit is a must-have item that has millions of views and likes on TikTok.
    — Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • There’s hundreds of millions of people that do right now.
    — Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • In much the same way that Ellis influences his millions of fans.
    — Ebony Flake, Essence, 15 Feb. 2024
  • 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 deal loaded Gannett up with debt and forced it to slash hundreds of millions of dollars off its books.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
  • Soon, billions of cicadas from two broods will emerge from the ground across large swaths of the U.S., so there is a high chance millions of pets will run into the bugs.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Morning Glory: The Team that Trump needs to outline now to secure millions of votes.
    — Fox News, 23 May 2024
  • On Sunday, millions of Thais lined up in roughly 100-degree heat to cast their vote.
    — Muktita Suhartono, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • Maybe Peter Seidler can spread more millions of dollars over the plate.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2023
  • After all, millions of dollars can ride on the half-rotation of a golf ball.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • For two years, the U.S. military had allowed millions of pieces of mail from the home front to pile up in dank warehouses.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
  • In the past five years, the shortfall has led to the department shelling out millions of dollars in overtime payments.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The tools were trained on millions of pieces of Times content, the suit said, and draw on that material to serve up answers to users’ prompts.
    — Alexandra Bruell, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2023
  • He has been incensed that his money — and tens of millions of dollars from donors — has gone to legal costs.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024
  • If there's no jackpot winner, the cash prize will increase by millions.
    — Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
  • If there's no jackpot winner, the cash prize will increase by millions.
    — Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
  • If there's no jackpot winner, the cash prize will increase by millions.
    — USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2024
  • And while network shows still can reach millions of people, social-media networks and Netflix and YouTube do that as well.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Super Mario Maker's success proved that millions of Nintendo fans want to use their console not only to play Switch games, but to create them, too.
    — PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024

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