How to Use trillion in a Sentence

trillion

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  • That means that trillions of insects have to track the passage of time in the soil.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2024
  • And what to do about the trillions of US Dollars the Chinese hold?
    — Marco Rubio, National Review, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Each of the tens of trillions of cells in your body has, in effect, the complete set of keys to the kingdom.
    — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 23 June 2017
  • The process starts with DNA sequences from some of the trillions of microbes in the human gut.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 8 Apr. 2020
  • The good news is that this is merely the best guess of investors with trillions of dollars on the line.
    — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Not to make their own trillion bucks, but to make our lives better.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Donald Trump added trillions of dollars to the deficit.
    — NBC News, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Maybe not as much wealth as men, but trillions of dollars.
    — Sallie Krawcheck, Marie Claire, 1 Jan. 2020
  • One part per trillion is about as much as a grain of sand in an Olympic-size swimming pool.
    — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
  • But protecting the human species from the end of life on Earth could save trillions of lives.
    — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 29 June 2018
  • The draft text released today mentions that the amount will be in trillions.
    — Simi Thambi​, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Nobody knew that The Simpsons was going to go on for trillions of years!
    — EW.com, 4 Dec. 2024
  • In compiling the 2019 Year in Search, Google looked at the aggregation of trillions of search queries over the course of the year.
    — Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Starting this spring, trillions of the red-eyed insects crawled their way out of the ground across the Midwest and Southeast.
    — Zach Dyer, NPR, 26 June 2024
  • With trillions of dollars at stake, QKD deserves to be on their radar screen.
    — John Prisco, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Decades and trillions of dollars later, Apple is in the hot seat.
    — Allison Johnson, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The projection says the cuts would increase the country’s debt by trillions in the coming decades.
    — Ray Boyd, Philly.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The United States has spent trillions of dollars waging war in the Middle East.
    — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 30 Jan. 2024
  • As for your taxes, the question isn’t whether Medicare for All would raise them, but by how many tens of trillions.
    — Seema Verma, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2019
  • Last week’s signal, however, is so clear that a false alarm would be a once-in-trillions-of-years event.
    — Charlie Wood, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2019
  • How could a plan that ran into the trillions cost zero dollars?
    — Byron Harlan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2023
  • Right now, credit card in the US sits in the trillions, meaning that many of us are carrying large balances month-to-month.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The longest-lasting of its stars will shine reddish-orange for trillions of years.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The biggest market in the world in the future is going to be trillions of dollars spent in the sector of energy.
    — NBC News, 4 June 2017
  • These are the first heroes and veterans and victims of the great trillions of dollars war on terror.
    — Emily Tillett, CBS News, 24 June 2019
  • There are trillions, quadrillions, and so forth of longer number candidates.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Ocean levels have risen an inch and a half (3.8 cm) in the last decade alone as tens of trillions of gallons of freshwater melt into the oceans each year.
    — New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2024
  • That process is still ongoing in the present-day universe and will continue for trillions of years.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Many congressional Republicans are demanding major reductions in federal spending, either on their own or to help pay for what are likely to be trillions of dollars of tax cuts.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Trump has promised to enact massive tariffs on foreign products, vowed to reduce taxes by trillions and hopes to pursue a massive deportation campaign that could drastically reduce the number of workers and put upward pressure on prices as a result.
    — Austin Denean, Baltimore Sun, 17 Dec. 2024

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