Sentence examples for thousand was from inspiring English sources

And in 1949, he'd stood shoulder to shoulder with Paul Robeson, Howard Fast and Pete Seeger against the mobs of Peekskill, New York, where American racism at its ugliest had inspired 21 songs from his pen (one of which, My Thirty Thousand, was recorded by Billy Bragg and Wilco).

For the Knight Rider show, which originally aired on US television in the '80s, KITT –Knight Industries Two Thousand – was a modified 1982 Pontiac Trans Am originally designed for the show by Michael Scheffe.

Agesilaus's force from Asia, composed largely of emancipated helots and mercenary veterans of the Ten Thousand, was augmented by half a Spartan regiment from Orchomenus, and another half a regiment that had been transported across the Gulf of Corinth.

"A thousand was our original objective".

Their "Symphony of a Thousand" was a knockout.

By nightfall, a crowd of several thousand was fighting back with rocks and gasoline bombs of their own.

"Two thousand was a joke," Lott said.

April's figure of a hundred and fifteen thousand was a big shock on the downside.

The conflict was only three years old, and its body count — around five thousand — was still relatively modest.

Funding for the OWSJ's first issue, which had an initial run of fifty thousand, was raised on Kickstarter.

The parade on Thursday in Philadelphia, which drew about seven hundred thousand, was also an attempt to control disruptive forces.