How to use "thousand" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "thousand" in popular movie and book plots

  • A suspicious MacIntyre declines, only to be told there could not have been more than ten thousand grains.  - Local Hero
  • With help from her fiancé, Cornélius, Ulysse makes a speech in front of several thousand apes.  - Planet of the Apes (novel)
  • Three thousand years later, Knuckles guards the Master Emerald on the floating Angel Island when Eggman shatters the Emerald, freeing Chaos.  - Sonic Adventure
  • They are transported there "five hundred and seventy-six thousand million years" into the future.  - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
  • It's stopped by Ifurita, who synchronizes with the device and is ultimately lost in time and space for ten thousand years as a result.  - El-Hazard
  • But Snow White is a thousand times more beautiful than you".  - Snow White
  • The novel explores a diverse range of topics throughout its approximately thousand pages.  - Anna Karenina
  • Each of the tasks will earn them points and whoever gets to one thousand points first will win a tank.  - Life Is Beautiful
  • Two thousand years later, humans are extinct and Manhattan is buried under glacial ice.  - A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  • Five thousand women gather at the palace singing a song of peace and pleading with the king to end the war.  - Civilization (film)
  • Thénardier then demands that Valjean pay a thousand crowns, but Valjean and Cosette leave.  - Les Misérables
  • Dan finds Flexible Frank in use everywhere, acting as hospital orderly, bellhop, and a thousand other menial jobs once filled by people.  - The Door into Summer
  • One SEAL, unaware of Coffey's plan at the time, helps to locate the warhead, stopped on a ledge several thousand feet down the trench.  - The Abyss
  • In an experiment by the first Keeper, Akasha and Enkil are exposed to sunlight when they are several thousand years old.  - The Queen of the Damned
  • Precipice turns out to be a Utopian community of a few thousand people.  - The Shockwave Rider
  • Over two thousand years later, the Ring was found by one of the river-folk called Déagol.  - The Lord of the Rings

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