How to Use trillion in a Sentence

trillion

noun
  • But what are mere trillions in this day and age?
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Yes, trillions of light-years away from Earth.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Not to make their own trillion bucks, but to make our lives better.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Tens of trillions of years after that, the final stars will burn out.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2025
  • That means that trillions of insects have to track the passage of time in the soil.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Tens of trillions pass through your body every second.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Some analyses say this spending could reach the trillions in the next three to five years.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2026
  • These changes could raise trillions of dollars over the next decade and lower costs for the rest of us.
    — Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
  • One part per trillion is about as much as a grain of sand in an Olympic-size swimming pool.
    — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
  • How could a plan that ran into the trillions cost zero dollars?
    — Byron Harlan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2023
  • This alone would create trillions in value.
    — Big Think, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The draft text released today mentions that the amount will be in trillions.
    — Simi Thambi​, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Musk is seeking to spend trillions—and risk human lives—to demonstrate his own.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2025
  • These policies have saved trillions of dollars and millions of lives.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
  • The good news is that this is merely the best guess of investors with trillions of dollars on the line.
    — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • There are trillions, quadrillions, and so forth of longer number candidates.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Each of the tens of trillions of cells in your body has, in effect, the complete set of keys to the kingdom.
    — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 23 June 2017
  • But the loss of trillions of dollars over a matter of days in April was extreme.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Nvidia and Microsoft are each worth trillions.
    — Alex Stephany, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Not just millions of dollars, but billions or trillions such as in the stock market.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The trillions of bacteria that live in our digestive tract don’t just help break down food.
    — Lauryn Higgins, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Decades and trillions of dollars later, Apple is in the hot seat.
    — Allison Johnson, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Last week’s signal, however, is so clear that a false alarm would be a once-in-trillions-of-years event.
    — Charlie Wood, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Compared with the trillions needed in clean energy, that does not sound much.
    — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
  • But protecting the human species from the end of life on Earth could save trillions of lives.
    — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 29 June 2018
  • Every day, as sunlight streams into your eyes, trillions of tiny clocks in your cells reset.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 9 Dec. 2025
  • The longest-lasting of its stars will shine reddish-orange for trillions of years.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2024
  • In the meantime, expect more one-day drops that could wipe out trillions of dollars from the stock market.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Language models consume trillions of tokens scraped from the web.
    — Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Nobody knew that The Simpsons was going to go on for trillions of years!
    — EW.com, 4 Dec. 2024

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