Examples of “billion” in a Sentence

num A thousand million: 1,000,000,000 (10⁹), the standard modern meaning.

• The company is now worth over a billion dollars.
• A billion seconds is a very long time to wait.
• She dreamed of owning a billion pounds, though she never expected to.

num An extremely large, unspecified number.

• I have a billion things to do before the weekend.
• There are a billion reasons to visit this city.
• I've told you a billion times to lock the door.
• There were billions of people at the concert.