How to Use quadrillion in a Sentence

quadrillion

noun

• The chances of the right egg meeting the right sperm — to make me — is about 1 in 400 quadrillion.
  — Charlie Coyne (age 2), Good Housekeeping, 11 May 2018
• The odds of winning both are 1 in more than 88 quadrillion.
  — Shelly Tan, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• And all of this from a distance of more than a quadrillion miles!
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2017
• The mass of the Higgs should be some thousands of quadrillion times as high.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 19 June 2017
• The chance of winning all four, per the suit, was less than one in a quadrillion to the fourth power.
  — The Editors, National Review, 11 Dec. 2020
• And some have magnetic fields many times stronger than the norm — quadrillions of times the strength of the sun’s magnetic field.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• According to court documents, the chance that the DNA is not his is one in 180 quadrillion.
  — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 17 June 2019
• And, sure—[math, math, math]—maybe the odds that an early lead for Trump would have been flipped upside-down are very small, like one-in-a-quadrillion small.
  — Benjamin Mazer, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020
• To put that into perspective, that is a quadrillion times faster than the blink of an eye, which takes a third of a second.
  — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
• At 6% interest, the numbers go as high as $16 quadrillion.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 18 Feb. 2021
• In terms of sheer mass, that works out to around a quadrillion, or thousand trillion, tons of diamond.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2018
• Claims about this 1 in a quadrillion chance spread widely on Facebook after the Dec. 8 lawsuit.
  — Eric Litke, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2020
• Cicchetti’s p-value of one in a quadrillion puts us all to shame.
  — Benjamin Mazer, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020
• Some researchers estimate that there are 17 quadrillion flies on the planet.
  — Howard Schneider, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• The Kivu swarm, with its three new lineages of Ebola, may amount to about one or two quadrillion infective particles of the virus.
  — Richard Preston, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2019
• Well, try to wrap your head around this: One petaflop equals around one quadrillion calculations per second.
  — Alyssa Newcomb, NBC News, 20 June 2017
• There are trillions, quadrillions, and so forth of longer number candidates.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2019
• There is no ultimate limit of the number of Dogecoins minted, and the cap for Shibu Inus is set at one quadrillion coins.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2021
• The core itself is 1 quadrillion to 1 sextillion kilograms, which is a little lighter than Mercury.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2019
• In the extremely distant past, around 13.77 billion years ago, our universe was the size of a peach and had a temperature of over a quadrillion degrees.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 22 June 2023
• Magnetars have magnetic fields about a quadrillion times stronger than the Earth's and a billion times stronger than the best that humanity can achieve.
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 17 June 2022
• The world's total net wealth has hit $431 trillion, nearly half a quadrillion dollars, and over a quarter of it is controlled by millionaires.
  — Ollie A Williams, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• At the lightest, the particles could be more than a quadrillion times lighter than even the ultralight dark matter Antypas is looking for.
  — Sophia Chen, Wired, 2 Aug. 2022
• The odds of creating some of the rarer exotic isotopes can be on the order of 1 in a quadrillion – roughly the same odds as winning back-to-back Mega Millions jackpots.
  — Artemis Spyrou, The Conversation, 14 Nov. 2022
• Japan’s central-government debt is about to surpass a quadrillion yen, or nearly $10 trillion.
  — Marcus Walker, WSJ, 12 July 2021
• Last month, scientists showed that there are likely quadrillions of diamonds below the Earth's surface.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2018
• To googologists, number lovers who strive to define and name ever-larger numbers, utility is not the point, and even Bryson’s 100 quadrillion is small change.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2020
• If none of the superhard materials work out, scientists can start to look for ways to get the quadrillions of diamonds buried within the Earth's surface out.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2019
• The bulk of Japan’s ¥1.83 quadrillion in household financial assets is held in post offices or bank accounts that pay zero interest.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• The bowl cupped a spherical cloud of iron that acted as a radiator for the waste heat emitted by Paradise’s quadrillions of computing modules.
  — Karl Schroeder, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024