Use million in a sentence
Sentences ending with million
- Not if it was a million! [5]
- So while my uncle was buying Jarvis's hill for three million two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, the other party was buying Bledso's hill for a shade over three million. [5]
- They levied taxes to the amount of thirty or forty thousand dollars and ordered expenditures to the extent of about a million. [5]
- It has but three or four homes in the world, whereas gold has a million. [5]
- Then came the result, and Aleck, faint with joy, could hardly control her voice when she said: "The suspense is over, Sally--and we are worth a cold million! [5]
- The population was only about twenty million. [5]
- He cornered cotton once, and raked in over a million. [9]
- By the look of him, even in his unfinished condition, he has committed all of a million. [5]
- I saw Marshall, months afterward, and although he had plenty of money he did not claim to have captured an entire million. [5]
- She has a million! [11]
Short sentences using million
- My figure was a million. [5]
- One man against a million. [11]
- Yet--a woman in a million! [11]
- Five million dollars! [5]
- A million pieces. [5]
Sentences containing million two or more times
- Shall a million ounces of brass and a million ounces of gold be held to be of the same value? [5]
- You little handful of people here--little more than half a million--imagine that you can defeat thirty-five millions, with an army of half a million, a hundred battle- ships, ten thousand cannon and a million rifles. [11]
- I say "rule of modesty" because there are about a million rules in the world, and this makes a million standards to be looked out for. [5]
- I was looking at a magnificent marble staircase in the King's palace, the other day, which, it was said, cost five million francs, and I suppose it did cost half a million, may be. [5]
- It has happened a million times, it will happen a hundred million more. [5]
More example sentences with the word million in them
- I know what you have done for me--" "I pleaded with Monsieur Fournel, knowing how you loved the Seigneury-- pleaded and offered to pay three times the price--" "Yourself would have been a hundred million times the price. [11]
- The twelfth dilution would of course fill a million such lakes. [3]
- This estate is worth at least a quarter of a million now. [11]
- For I was worth a million dollars, and did not care "whether school kept or not! [5]
- Imagine a man worth a hundred millions who finds himself suddenly penniless and fifty million in debt in his old age. [5]
- The calculating mind wonders how many million feet of lumber there are in this unpicturesque barricade, and what gigantic forests have fallen to make this timber front to the sea. [4]
- You are a woman in a million, and--" "May I come and breakfast with you some morning? [11]
- It is a wine-cask as big as a cottage, and some traditions say it holds eighteen thousand bottles, and other traditions say it holds eighteen hundred million barrels. [5]
- I tell you what, Sir, there are a thousand lives, aye, sometimes a million, go to get a new word into a language that is worth speaking. [6]
- Two million dollars went into that experiment, but Manana won. [11]
- The whole job was worth at least a million to the company--it might be more. [5]
- Here, he said, was the paradise of his home, the long-sought-for opportunity; he felt as though he could send a million supplications to the throne of Heaven for such an exalted privilege. [5]
- When Tom Quartz was sot once, he was always sot--and you might a blowed him up as much as three million times 'n' you'd never a broken him of his cussed prejudice agin quartz mining. [5]
- Fact is, it was one of those deals when you can make a million, in a straight enough game; but it comes out of another man--one, maybe, that you don't know; who is playing just the same as you are. [11]
- No, even Cauchon was ashamed to lay that monstrosity before her; even he had a remnant of shame in him, away down deep, a million fathoms deep, and that remnant asserted itself now and prevailed. [5]
- All this luxury was as grateful to systems and senses worn out with an exhausting day's travel, as it was unexpected--for one can not tell what to expect in a Turkish city of even a quarter of a million inhabitants. [5]
- This morning the Venus will be removed to the Capitol, there to remain, and at noon the commission will wait upon Signor Arnold with His Holiness the Pope's order upon the Treasury for the princely sum of five million francs is gold! [5]
- It is a vast city; contains about a million inhabitants. [5]
- It was a vacuum where sensation was suspended, and the million facts of ordinary existence disappeared into inactivity. [11]
- One million of us, then, die annually. [5]
- Oh, a million unnoticed influences--for good or bad: influences which work without rest during every waking moment of a man's life, from cradle to grave. [5]
- They date back two million years. [5]
- There are only two million of them, anyway, and all of five months to finish the contract in. [5]
- He paid us two million francs for them. [5]
- He uses it twenty times a day, or twenty thousand times a day; or a million times a day-- according to the exigencies. [5]
- Suppose it should turn out that by the death of somebody in England he is suddenly an earl--income, half a million dollars a year. [5]
- A good job, too; for on her way back she hit on a scheme that would turn the hundred and eighty thousand into half a million before it had had time to get cold. [5]
- I'm saying this to you because you've seen more of the world, I bet, than one in a million, even though you're so young. [11]
- She could go to England to-day and be worshiped by earls, and get a comet's attention from the million, if she cared for such things. [5]
- He had come to believe that the enterprises in which he was engaged, that absolutely gave him, it was believed, an income of a million a year, were for the public good. [4]
- It's a thousand times worse than that--oh, yes, a million times worse. [5]
- Over there, twenty thousand people in a million elect themselves gentlemen and ladies, and the nine hundred and eighty thousand accept that decree and swallow the affront which it puts upon them. [5]
- In addition to this, Australasia does a trade with countries other than England, amounting to a hundred million dollars a year, and a domestic intercolonial trade amounting to a hundred and fifty millions. [5]
- Do these liberation-parties think that they can succeed in a project which has been attempted a million times in the history of the world and has never in one single instance been successful--the "modification" of a despotism by other means than bloodshed? [5]
- A million of these, with all the firearms in the world, could not prevail against the flower of the South. [9]
- Nor'land 'gainst Southland then she drove, A million serfs to free; The reeking shuttle lifeward wove, Through death from land to sea. [11]
- A million is the unit of wealth, now and here in America. [6]
- You have told the truth a million times in your life, G---, but that one golden lie atones for it all. [5]
- In those days, the Trust will have an income approaching five million dollars a day, and no expenses to be taken out of it; no taxes to pay, and no charities to support. [5]
- The odour of the sawdust as he passed through a mill was sweeter than a million bunches of violets. [11]
- An article in the New Orleans 'Times-Democrat,' based upon reports of able engineers, states that the river annually empties four hundred and six million tons of mud into the Gulf of Mexico--which brings to mind Captain Marryat's rude name for the Mississippi--'the Great Sewer. [5]
- Well, 140,000 died the first year of the century; 280,000 the twenty-fifth year; 500,000 the fiftieth year; about a million the seventy-fifth year. [5]
- I sprang at the creature, roaring: "Curse you, I have wished a hundred million times that you were tangible, and that I could get my hands on your throat once! [5]
- She bent over the calm river, and saw them shining in the same majestic order as when the dove beheld them gleaming through the swollen waters, upon the mountain tops down far below, and dead mankind, a million fathoms deep. [12]
- He alluded to the astonishing growth of Illinois, having grown within his memory to a population of a million and a half; to Iowa and the other young rising communities of the Northwest. [7]
- I know somebody that's worth fifty million thousand presidents,--and he 's coming,--my Clement is coming," said Susan, who had by this time learned to consider the awful Byles Gridley as her next friend and faithful counsellor. [6]
- It was said that the Emperor was leaving the army because it was in danger, it was said that Smolensk had surrendered, that Napoleon had an army of a million and only a miracle could save Russia. [2]
- But was not that a singular scene for a city of a million inhabitants? [5]
- The trumpet said that a million once lost in Mexico was returned, with a small flock of other millions; for a mine, in which it was sunk, had burst forth with a stony stream of silver. [11]
- To prove that Tell did shoot the apple from his son's head would merely prove that he had better nerve than most men and was skillful with a bow as a million others who preceded and followed him, but not one whit more so. [5]
- His or her taste may be good, or it may be immature and vicious; it may be used simply to create a sensation; and yet the million of readers get nothing except what this one person chooses they shall read. [4]
- It seems a strange thing to say of a wealthy, far- seeing, and energetic city of a quarter of a million inhabitants, but it is true. [5]
- So we moved south with a westward slant, 17 hours by rail to the capital of the colony of Victoria, Melbourne--that juvenile city of sixty years, and half a million inhabitants. [5]
- There must be somewhere a population of two hundred thousand million, perhaps ten or a hundred times as many, earth-born intelligences. [6]
- There certainly were some things even here which the host was not bound to supply to his military; he, Caesar, would provide them with these, and for that purpose he had put aside two million denarii out of his own poverty to distribute among them. [10]
- He's been safe so far, because they believed in him, and because he'd rather die a million deaths than go crooked. [11]
- The shops and shows represent the taste of the million, and although there is a similarity in all these popular coast watering-places, each has a characteristic of its own. [4]
- We had some sharp words, and I felt pretty cheap, to come banging into a grave old person like that, with a million strangers looking on and smiling to themselves. [5]
- To-morrow we can send a million to New York and set the lawyers at work on the judges; bless your heart they will go before judge after judge and exhort and beseech and pray and shed tears. [5]
- She did not see him enter, and he had time to note what matrimony, and the three years and the three million pounds, had done to her. [11]
- And yet I say: the sheltering care of Amon Is better succor than a million men, Or than ten thousand knights, or than a thousand Brothers and sons though gathered into one. [10]
- How should the ruler over a million souls find time or patience for her and her trivial griefs? [10]
- In accordance with Roman law and Roman usage, the government being half-owner in all works of art found in the Campagna, the State has naught to do but pay five million francs to Mr. Arnold and take permanent possession of the beautiful statue. [5]
- Upon those hollow rocks the bellow of the storms was like the rumbling of the wheels of a million gun-carriages; and yet high overhead there were only the bright sun and faint drops of rain falling like mystic pearls. [11]
- You see I've read only the first page of your letter; I wouldn't read the rest for a million dollars. [5]
- And I should rather a million times see her in her grave than passed through the atmosphere of his life. [11]
- The English will put up with anybody who has a few million dollars, and I don't deny that Abby's good-looking, and clever in her way. [9]
- In the first place, I'd have more pride, and in the second place, if I really loved a man, seventy five thousand or seventy five million dollars wouldn't help me any. [9]
- Some of those people who are so fond of writing their names in prominent places had been there before us--a million or two, I should think. [5]
- They contain fifty or sixty million dollars' worth' of diamonds, and there is an abundance of enterprising thieves around. [5]
- Among the three or four million cradles now rocking in the land are some which this nation would preserve for ages as sacred things, if we could know which ones they are. [5]
- The honeymoon lasts only an hour or two; then the queen divorces her husband and returns home competent to lay two million eggs. [5]
- Am I just one of the crude human things who lived a million years ago, and who lives again as crude as those; with only the outer things changed? [11]
- He had escaped one danger, he had landed half a million dollars' worth of opium in the night, under the very nose of the law, and while Customs boats were patrolling the bay; there was another danger--the inquisitiveness of the Cormorant. [11]
- Sometimes a man offends the Deity with a crime, and is punished for it thirty years later; meantime he was committed a million other crimes: no matter, Henry can pick out the one that brought the worms. [5]
- This other figure of the same object, enlarged from the one just shown, is magnified seven thousand diameters, or forty-nine million times in surface. [3]
- One little chapter of Carlyle, illuminated by a teacher of understanding, were worth a million such text-books. [9]
- Will a quarter of a million do? [11]
- We saw upward of a million cats in Bermuda, but the people are very abstemious in the matter of dogs. [5]
- Yet he could not have moved a foot from where he was if he had been given a million pounds. [11]
- I do not need to open a book; I take the whole of its contents into my mind at a single glance, through the cover; and in a million years I could not forget a single word of it, or its place in the volume. [5]
- When I found myself perched on a cloud, with a million other people, I never felt so good in my life. [5]
- The burning of Moscow had cost him, according to the head steward's calculation, about two million rubles. [2]
- Supposing that not more than one cure in three hundred which the Tractors have performed has been published, and the proportion is probably much greater, it will be seen that the number, to March last, will have exceeded one million five hundred thousand! [3]
- You are no more than a million others--and I--I am nothing. [11]
- There are eighty-two millions of us people that use this orthography, and it ought to be simplified in our behalf, but it is kept in its present condition to satisfy one million people who like to have their literature in the old form. [5]
- Since the whole million vote themselves ladies and gentlemen, there is no question about that election. [5]
- Ah, no, a million times, no! [11]
- Why, it's a million times bullier than pirating. [5]
- There are a million of them. [5]
- This saves a million lives a day in the world--for sure. [5]
- Mystery and the million happenings of life lay hidden in that far silver haze. [11]
- All mine; two million and one god. [5]
- I tell a million a day! [5]
- I've got to look round for an extra million somewhere today. [4]
- So we will let it stand as a fair presumption that this will hold good all over the country, and that consequently 25,000 out of every million of people we have must die every year. [5]
- Not if I knew there was a million dollars in that pan! [5]
- The Erie railroad kills 23 to 46; the other 845 railroads kill an average of one-third of a man each; and the rest of that million, amounting in the aggregate to that appalling figure of 987,631 corpses, die naturally in their beds! [5]
- I see it-- it is a million miles away--too great a journey to go with the feet, but with the soul I will visit it. [11]
- Else the bond is water, and the spirits come in the night, and take you to the million years of torment. [11]
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