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Example sentences for "many thousands"

  • After the destruction of his hopes, and the loss of many thousands of his bravest soldiers, Gainas, who could no longer aspire to govern or to subdue the Romans, determined to resume the independence of a savage life.

  • The learned say that in consequence of his wickedness, the continuance (in such form) of a Jiva is measured by many thousands of Kalpas.

  • Many thousands of Indras have passed away, O Vasava, each of whom was possessed of great strength and prowess.

  • The period for which a particular creation exists is measured by many thousands of lakes (in the following way), O Daitya!

  • About an hundred such schemes were projected and put in execution, to the ruin of many thousands.

  • This issue of the paper is intended as a memorial of the man who founded it; whose genius has so long adorned its pages, and whose personality has endeared it to so many thousands of readers throughout the land.

  • Brann was 43 years of age, and had just arrived at that period when he was beginning to realize the hopes and aspirations of years, when he was stricken down amid the rejoicings of many and the sorrows of many thousands more.

  • There all the great nobles and many thousands of other men heard the Christmas mass, just after midnight, knowing that many of them should never hear it again on earth.

  • Many thousands of wives owe the fact that they are mothers to-day to this grand remedy, and thousands upon thousands of children are happy, strong and robust because their mothers were wise enough to use it.

  • Come with the feeling that has inspired so many thousands of your sisters,--come believing that you have at last found a remedy that will relieve you from this terrible slavery to suffering.

  • Later on, and as the crowning achievement in the phonograph field, from a commercial point of view, came the duplication of records to the extent of many thousands from a single "master.

  • The life of so many thousands of persons was condensed into their eyes.

  • Silence, the forerunner of the mortal thrust, fell; a silence greater than that of absolute solitude, product of many thousands of bated breaths; silence so intense that the faintest sound in the ring carried to the most distant seats.

  • Many thousands of people were watching her from a distance.

  • In the beginning of 1853, the Protestants, or Evangelicals as they prefer to call themselves in Tuscany, were estimated at many thousands.

  • The printing of archives has kept pace with the admission of enquirers; and the total mass of new matter, which the last half-century has accumulated, amounts to many thousands of volumes.

  • Twenty-five hundred prisoners, twenty pieces of artillery, several stands of colors, many thousands of small arms, and two hundred and fifty wagons were the fruits of victory in the battle of Mansfield.

  • Grant's error in undertaking an impossible work cost him three months' time and the loss by disease of many thousands of his men.

  • But when those rules were rigidly applied to offences committed many years before, at the distance of many thousands of miles, conviction was, of course, out of the question.

  • Many thousands of his troops were actually in Silesia before the Queen of Hungary knew that he had set up any claim to any part of her territories.

  • It is time, however, to return to the great South Sea gulf, that swallowed the fortunes of so many thousands of the avaricious and the credulous.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "many thousands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    many authors; many bees; many diseases; many districts; many great; many hands; many have; many hundred; many men; many millions; many names; many occasions; many particulars; many parts; many people; many physicians; many plants; many proofs; many readers; many sections; many ships; many sorts; many towns; many women; many wounded; vast extent