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Example sentences for "one thousand"

  • I will give the above reward for them, of one thousand dollars, or five hundred dollars for either of them, if taken and lodged in any jail in Maryland, so that I get them again.

  • After reflection instead of making a reduction, she raised the amount to one thousand dollars, which Oscar concluded was too much for himself.

  • He had often heard of me, and was anxious to engage me as his guide and companion, and he offered to pay the liberal salary of one thousand dollars a month while I was with him.

  • The Indians kept increasing in numbers all the while until it was estimated that we were fighting from eight hundred to one thousand of them.

  • Yet the oath of fidelity or exile was alike rejected by one thousand Goths, who broke away before the treaty was signed, and boldly effected their retreat to the walls of Pavia.

  • Yet all was not lost, as long as Pavia was defended by one thousand Goths, inspired by a sense of honor, the love of freedom, and the memory of their past greatness.

  • One of members observed that there would be a good deal of trouble in raising an armed force of one thousand men.

  • Allowing each of these to cost the country the average sum of one thousand dollars, and we have the annual cost to the country, for lawyers, thirty millions of dollars.

  • If a leaking balloon had come down to one thousand feet at Fargo, it would either have remained at that height or kept on descending.

  • For the cosmic-balloon answer to be correct, this leaking gas bag would have had to rise swiftly to seventeen thousand feet--after a loss of helium had forced it down to one thousand.

  • The ravine, which has been formed by its destruction of the rock, and is full of lofty heaps of débris, may be one thousand feet in breadth, and quite five times as long.

  • A quantity of the water, equal in bulk to one thousand grains of distilled water, was operated on for each of the following ingredients: Chlorine 0.

  • Mr. Fishbourne had influenced them not to do so, and he (Mr. Mason) had been a loser of one thousand pounds in consequence.

  • He stated, as the result of a careful calculation which he had made, that he and the two planters referred to, had been in the habit of giving to their people not less than one thousand gallons of rum annually.

  • In this establishment there is ample accommodation for the manufacture of one thousand fire-arms per day," which is more than the arsenals at Harper's Ferry and Springfield combined could turn out in the same time previous to the war.

  • In addition to those mentioned in the list below, he gave away for various public purposes sums ranging from two hundred and fifty to one thousand dollars, and extending back as far as the year 1835.

  • By the aid of this same machinery, six men can manufacture the works of one thousand clocks in a day; and a factory employing twenty-five workmen can turn out two thousand clocks per week.

  • Fees if you win, one thousand francs if we lose our case.

  • After two hours of debate, Eve obtained two thousand francs for six months, one thousand to be paid in advance.

  • Below us, at a depth of one thousand feet, lay the magnificent valley of the Quango.

  • On the morning of the 12th the "Thousand" [Footnote: Garibaldi landed with a force of one thousand volunteers.

  • This loss was valued at fifty-one thousand francs.

  • The charcoal used in the smithies and in the founding of artillery will amount to one thousand pesos.

  • Item: At the option of the captain-general, one thousand pesos is distributed among all the soldiers, ten pesos being given to each soldier whom the captain-general wishes to favor.

  • One artillery and bell-founder, with a salary of one thousand pesos.

  • They were pursued by Don Luys de Velasco with five hundred Spaniards and one thousand Indians, by order of Governor Don Pedro de Acuña, before they reached San Pablo.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one thousand" 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:
    dear general; depended upon; excellent work; lower levels; mule deer; obstinate cases; one but; one else; one hundred and fifty; one hundred thousand francs; one hundred years ago; one knew; one knows; one may; one might; one moment; one more; one place; one sense; one should; one side; one thing; one thousand; one time; toasted cheese; you again