How to Use hundred in a Sentence

hundred

noun
  • Along one wall ran hundreds of gray, two-tier lockers.
    — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Just hundreds of sheep clinging to the grassy slopes.
    — Lori Rackl, Boston Herald, 31 May 2026
  • They were forced to fire dozens or in some cases hundreds of staffers.
    — Tazreena Sajjad, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2025
  • There’s an owner whose name’s in there hundreds of times.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026
  • There will be hundreds of new and gently-used items, all priced to sell.
    — Pomerado News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
  • In hundreds of years of baseball?
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • For hundreds of years, water was the life and lifeblood of a city on the make.
    — Alaina Harkness, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
  • Scouts spend hundreds of days on the road each year—long drives, cheap hotels, fast food.
    — Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • Consider what this day and the past hundreds of days have meant for you.
    — Vogue, 22 Nov. 2018
  • These glass valves sucked up power by the hundreds of watts each and pumped out a lot of waste heat.
    — New Atlas, 15 Feb. 2026
  • But some of it travels hundreds, if not thousands of miles.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026
  • There are hundreds — there might even be a thousand — crystals on it.
    — Nadia Neophytou, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2019
  • And hundreds, if not thousands, more could be closing in the months to come.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Each machine is designed to stock hundreds of medicines.
    — Morgan Chittum,matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In just a few hours, volunteers picked up and packed hundreds of pounds of food.
    — Karen Morfitt, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Of the hundreds of fan videos that come out of each game, his was different from them all.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 8 June 2026
  • This is where hundreds of homeless men from all five boroughs show up in search of a place to sleep.
    — Niki Donohue, New York Daily News, 3 May 2026
  • Have an idea for a great class that could be enjoyed by hundreds of students online?
    — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2026
  • There are hundreds of these sites, each with its own opt-out process, and many relist your data later.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Jones had lost all of her life savings-hundreds of thousands of dollars.
    — Nick Leiber, ajc, 5 May 2018
  • The locations where the debris was found span an area of hundreds of square miles.
    — Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The dress has racked up hundreds of five-star ratings from happy customers.
    — Jamie Allison Sanders, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
  • These items are just a sample of the hundreds of millions of goods sold on the platform.
    — Gabrielle Fonrouge,paige Tortorelli, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
  • For perspective, there were mere hundreds of cars on French roads at the time.
    — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023
  • Scenes like this were watched in hundreds of small towns and cities as the rare celestial event moved across the sky.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Paramount to lay off hundreds of staffers in cost-cutting effort.
    — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Our reporting found hundreds of threats were left on judges voicemails.
    — Heather Abbott, CBS News, 7 June 2026
  • Photons from tens, hundreds, thousands of years ago collide with my eyes.
    — Alexandra Oliva june 1, Literary Hub, 1 June 2026
  • Hundreds of thousands of homes go on the market every year — but some stand out amongst the noise.
    — Lauren Smith, House Beautiful, 16 Dec. 2016
  • These scams can cost victims hundreds of thousands of dollars.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Mar. 2026

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