Sentence examples for thousand long from inspiring English sources
A fishing fleet of several thousand long, swift praus (sailing craft) is based at Madura.
Likewise, many long scale countries use the word billiard (or similar) for a thousand long scale billions (i.e. 1015), and the word trilliard (or similar) for a thousand long scale trillions (i.e. 1021), etc.
Your bedroom white-walled, wooden-floored—smells of patchouli, sandalwood, and the atomized zing of a thousand long and lusty nights.
The project was opposed by nearly a thousand Long Islanders who likened the windmills -- which would have been constructed very far out in the Atlantic Ocean -- to "visual pollution".
Transcription from these intergenic loci gives rise to several thousand long (>200 bp) intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) in mouse, each apparently without protein-coding capability.
This slim book of poems is better than a thousand long-winded pieces of journalism -- he makes the East scrutable and real, with all its anomalies.
Just beyond the traffic and palm trees of Wilshire Boulevard, hidden beneath the shadows of nondescript office buildings, lie the tar-slicked bones of many thousand long-dead creatures.
The change inserted into the House bill, listed under the heading "Technical Correction," would remove wage protections for several thousand "long-haul drivers" who transport railroad crews from worksite to worksite.
To make his giant peach he just needed a bag full of "one thousand long slimy crocodile tongues boiled up in the skull of a dead witch with the eyeballs of a lizard", to which were added "the fingers of a young monkey, the gizzard of a pig, the beak of a green parrot, the juice of a porcupine, and three spoonfuls of sugar".
