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Example sentences for "million dollars"

  • If you could transport it to New York some arms-and-ammunition millionaire would give half a million dollars for it.

  • The Germans were still determined to take the town, which they had showered with four million dollars' worth of shells.

  • It will cost him a quarter of a million dollars!

  • I don't want your quarter of a million dollars, and I don't want your twelve a week.

  • Look at him as he stands there--and imagine him the owner of a quarter of a million dollars!

  • Jack has lost his wager, and his quarter of a million dollars--and his home!

  • Lindy continued, "Money don't count with him; they say his father is worth more than a million dollars.

  • Perhaps she has heard your father was worth a million dollars.

  • A mysterious case and its solution having been related to him, he resolved to devote his income, now amounting to a million dollars yearly, to amateur detective work.

  • When the chair was running free again, one of us inquired of the chairman: "What would you do if you had a million dollars?

  • There is, for example, a free library in connection with the Goodwyn Institute, an establishment having an endowment of half a million dollars, left to Memphis by the late William A.

  • Oglethorpe is to be a Presbyterian institution, and starts off with a million dollars.

  • Yes, sir, I tell you it's true, a million dollars.

  • In New York there are already a dozen men who are worth a million dollars.

  • A man in Ohio, who had been a dealer in horses, made a million dollars out of a patent churn he had bought for the price of a farm horse, took his wife to visit Europe and in Paris bought a painting for fifty thousand dollars.

  • It was an expensive punishment for England; the cost of keeping an army in the colonies, and other incidental expenses, footed up about half a million dollars, against a revenue from duties of four hundred dollars only.

  • When the rout reached the camp, Dunbar, the officer in charge there, destroyed everything, to the value of half a million dollars, and ran with the rest.

  • The savages could fight no more; they had caused the death of six hundred men, had burned a dozen towns, and compelled the expenditure of half a million dollars.

  • When you consider that in its palmiest old days of exclusive monopoly the Hudson's Bay Company never sold more than half a million dollars' worth of furs a year, this total for Edmonton alone does not sound like a scarcity of furs.

  • On oranges alone California will save twenty million dollars a year shipping via Panama.

  • In not a single year did the fur record exceed half a million dollars' worth.

  • It's like going around with a million dollars in your pocket.

  • We're letting them off easily with twenty million dollars indemnity.

  • These aeroplanes would be worth a million dollars apiece to us and we can't get 'em.

  • McGivney had spoken the literal truth when he said that the big business interests of American City had put up a million dollars to hang Goober and his crowd.

  • The business men of San Francisco raised a million dollars to save the city from union labor, and the Mooney case was the way they did it.

  • In Los Angeles the employers' association raised a million dollars, and the result was the case of Sydney R.

  • In the next half-minute the Pacific Southwestern stands to lose a quarter of a million dollars!

  • She had always dreamed of marrying a beautiful man with a million dollars and a steam yacht.

  • But one must be merciful to a million dollars.

  • The heroine was becomingly shy of her husband, but finally went to her room, where a swell maid put her to bed (with a proper omission of critical moments) in a bed that must have cost a million dollars.

  • She was just trying to get as close as she could to a million dollars.

  • She shoved him back and brushed the imaginary dust of his contact from the shoulders that had but lately been compressed by a million dollars.

  • Men have eaten up his first one hundred and fifty million dollars, but their works are worth one hundred and sixty-five million dollars, and he has fifteen million dollars profit.

  • We lend Leland Stanford a quarter and he next buys up three or four high-priced legislatures and defies the Constitution of the United States to prevent him levying a tax on "his people" of a million dollars with a stroke of his pen.

  • If they could tell, they could make a million dollars, and unless you have been all your life a discreet man, be assured they will tell.

  • At the end of the year they would begin starving if they relied on him alone, and he would have neither one hundred and fifty million dollars capital nor fifteen million dollars profit.

  • For the whole country the figure has recently been just about half a million dollars a year.

  • Whittekin bought up in England stock to the value of half a million dollars, but died on the way to Liberia to fulfil his contract.

  • Early in the decade the General Education Board began actively to assist in the work of the higher educational institutions, and an outstanding gift was that of half a million dollars to Fisk University in 1920.

  • To himself he added, musingly, "Old Malcolm will start on a long journey before he finds the--million dollars.

  • The neighbouring Negroes, with generous imagination, fixed his mythical and elusive treasure at a million dollars.

  • If Bark dies, the murderer shall hang as high as Haman, if it costs me a million dollars, or, if Bark gets well, he shall have the limit of the law.

  • Am I to understand then, Don Mike, that for approximately three hundred thousand dollars he will be enabled, under this atrocious code of business morals, to acquire a property worth at least a million dollars?

  • I have approximately seven months in which to raise approximately a quarter of a million dollars.

  • This ranch is worth a million dollars, and at the close of the exemption period your claim against it will probably amount to approximately three hundred thousand dollars, principal and interest.

  • The appropriations needed to liquidate contract authorizations are estimated at 1,113 million dollars.

  • Of this amount, present permanent appropriations are expected to provide 5,755 million dollars, principally for interest.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "million dollars" 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:
    annual rate; armed knight; colour sketch; four hundred; half tablespoonful; hour longer; licensed house; million bushels; million expenditures; million feet; million francs; million from; million miles; million people; million pounds; million times; million tons; millions sterling; millionth part; official account; single body; slight change; total vote; unto their; when cool; you don