How to Use hundred in a Sentence

hundred

noun

• This has been the place of fishers for hundreds of years.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2023
• The gems date back hundreds of years to the time of Augustus the Strong, the elector of Saxony and king of Poland.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
• For hundreds of years, storms were named after saint days.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 2 June 2023
• For perspective, there were mere hundreds of cars on French roads at the time.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023
• The pattern of waves moves outwards from the center of the dial, and is notched with hundreds of tiny holes that play with the light.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2024
• The early screening was one of hundreds held across the country days ahead of the film’s wide release.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 20 July 2023
• Singh spent hundreds of hours during her senior year to create the 15-pound piece – and 38-rolls of duct tape.
  — Amy Schwabe, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
• The wagon will provide hundreds of hours of fun for the whole family.
  — Rich Heileman, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
• The dress has racked up hundreds of five-star ratings from happy customers.
  — Jamie Allison Sanders, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
• Things kicked off in front of a raucous crowd in the arena, with hundreds of fans for both teams cheering on their heroes.
  — Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• So when a quorum returned to the Senate floor on June 15, hundreds of bills were ready for final votes.
  — oregonlive, 25 June 2023
• In fact, hundreds of styles were just secretly marked down up to 60 percent off.
  — Rachel Simon, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2023
• The Southland high school football season opens Aug. 17-19 with hundreds of games across the Southland.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2023
• Researchers say even rare risks like these may amount to hundreds of thousands of new cases, CNN said.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 11 June 2024
• With each new tree, the group tries hundreds of combinations.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2024
• Paramount to lay off hundreds of staffers in cost-cutting effort.
  — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• By both measurements, the T is still hundreds short of its goal for this fiscal year, which ends in seven weeks.
  — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023
• But, for hundreds of years, the felony-murder doctrine has muddled this conceit.
  — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• In the port city of Karachi, police swung batons and fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of Mr. Khan supporters who had blocked a key road.
  — Munir Ahmed and Riazat Butt, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2023
• But that’s to be expected: the referees make hundreds of decisions a game; some of them will come at the ends of tight games, and some of those will be wrong.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
• Almost any tree can be moved, included oak trees hundreds of years old.
  — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 8 Mar. 2024
• In 2012, McMurtry auctioned off hundreds of thousands of books.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• Since the fighting started, hundreds have been killed and thousands more injured.
  — Tatiana Arias, CNN, 6 May 2023
• Seeing what foods were around can give archeologists an idea of the landscape hundreds of years ago.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Oct. 2023
• Debris disks persist for hundreds of millions of years.
  — Big Think, 24 June 2024
• In the port city of Karachi, police swung batons and fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of Khan supporters who had gathered on a key road.
  — Munir Ahmed and Riazat Butt, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2023
• Multi-colored spans of gems have been coveted for hundreds of years.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 24 June 2024
• Having earned hundreds of five-star ratings, this wreath gets high marks for its vibrancy.
  — Leonora Epstein, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
• The company has invested hundreds of millions of dollars over the past several years to increase safety, the spokesperson said.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 5 Sep. 2024
• After a nova explosion, the dwarf star remains intact and the cycle triggering another explosion starts over, which NASA says can take tens, hundreds or even thousands of years.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024