How to Use trillion in a Sentence

trillion

noun

• That means that trillions of insects have to track the passage of time in the soil.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2024
• And what to do about the trillions of US Dollars the Chinese hold?
  — Marco Rubio, National Review, 7 Dec. 2023
• The process starts with DNA sequences from some of the trillions of microbes in the human gut.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 8 Apr. 2020
• 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
• Not to make their own trillion bucks, but to make our lives better.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 7 Feb. 2020
• Donald Trump added trillions of dollars to the deficit.
  — NBC News, 29 Sep. 2024
• Maybe not as much wealth as men, but trillions of dollars.
  — Sallie Krawcheck, Marie Claire, 1 Jan. 2020
• 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
• But protecting the human species from the end of life on Earth could save trillions of lives.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 29 June 2018
• In compiling the 2019 Year in Search, Google looked at the aggregation of trillions of search queries over the course of the year.
  — Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 12 Dec. 2019
• Starting this spring, trillions of the red-eyed insects crawled their way out of the ground across the Midwest and Southeast.
  — Zach Dyer, NPR, 26 June 2024
• With trillions of dollars at stake, QKD deserves to be on their radar screen.
  — John Prisco, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Decades and trillions of dollars later, Apple is in the hot seat.
  — Allison Johnson, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2024
• The projection says the cuts would increase the country’s debt by trillions in the coming decades.
  — Ray Boyd, Philly.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• The United States has spent trillions of dollars waging war in the Middle East.
  — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 30 Jan. 2024
• As for your taxes, the question isn’t whether Medicare for All would raise them, but by how many tens of trillions.
  — Seema Verma, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2019
• 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
• How could a plan that ran into the trillions cost zero dollars?
  — Byron Harlan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2023
• Right now, credit card in the US sits in the trillions, meaning that many of us are carrying large balances month-to-month.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 24 Jan. 2024
• The longest-lasting of its stars will shine reddish-orange for trillions of years.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2024
• These are the first heroes and veterans and victims of the great trillions of dollars war on terror.
  — Emily Tillett, CBS News, 24 June 2019
• There are trillions, quadrillions, and so forth of longer number candidates.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2019
• Ocean levels have risen an inch and a half (3.8 cm) in the last decade alone as tens of trillions of gallons of freshwater melt into the oceans each year.
  — New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2024
• That process is still ongoing in the present-day universe and will continue for trillions of years.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2019
• The value of the temple’s treasures is estimated to be in the trillions of dollars.
  — Abraham Verghese, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
• The Atlas laser works by sending out trillions of photons in rapid pulses.
  — Jon Gertner, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2020
• The number of cicadas that are set to emerge this year exceeds a trillions, Uconn reported.
  — Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 23 Jan. 2024
• The rare metals on asteroids are valued in the trillions of dollars.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2020
• Budget experts say that based on what’s known today, both candidates’ plans are likely to increase the federal deficit by trillions of dollars over the next 10 years.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
• Ignoring the deficit: Both candidates' platforms would add trillions to already-enormous U.S. fiscal deficits over the next decade, although Trump's plans are more expensive.
  — Axios, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024