Want to use Billion correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning and synonyms like trillion or cardinal.

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Billion in a sentence

Billion | Billions | Billionaire | Billionaires | Billionth | Billionths | Billionbricks

Billion meaning

  1. Either of two large amounts:
  2. a thousand million (logic: 1,000 × 1,000²): 1 followed by nine zeros, 10⁹.

Synonyms of Billion

large integer one thousand million large indefinite amount large indefinite quantity jillion zillion trillion million 1000000000000 one million million cardinal 1000000000

Billion in Dutch

biljoen

Example sentences (20)

EC has an adequate balance sheet with $3.3 billion cash, $26.9 billion long-term debt, and $22.3 billion total debt.

Earlier this week, the government increased its emergency funding from CHF10 billion to CHF42 billion ($42.6 billion).

Aldar’s net profit was AED 1.9 billion, with gross profit of AED 2.6 billion and development sales of AED 2.6 billion.

The $109 billion-asset First Citizens will gain the bridge bank’s $110 billion in assets, including $72 billion in loans.

The Border Patrol budget jumped from US$1 billion to $2 billion in five years and is now about $4 billion.

The company issued revenue guidance of $1.8 billion-$1.8 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.8 billion.

The company issued revenue guidance of $3.2 billion-$3.2 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.2 billion.

Johnson did not confirm reports that London would be giving at least £2 billion (€2.34 billion, US$2.60 billion) to the province.

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There's $31 billion for a coronavirus vaccine, $16 billion for virus testing and $15 billion to help child care providers reopen.

The European Union spewed 3.9 billion tons (3.5 billion metric tons) and India soared to 2.9 billion tons (2.6 billion metric tons).

And Wealth Management, a total of GBP1.2 billion is split between GBP0.5 billion for Cazenove, GBP0.7 billion for Benchmark Capital.

The total estimated cost is RM9.7 billion with tram accounting for RM5.4 billion, BRT RM2.6 billion and rail and ferry RM1.6 billion.

Around $10 billion is in the United States, $10 billion in Britain and some $30 billion in Japan.

The budget, totalling about 607.4 billion shekels ($162 billion), includes a nine billion shekel package to support reserve soldiers.

JP Morgan will take on $173 billion of loans, $30 billion of securities and $92 billion of deposits of the failed lender, reports say.

Greenland boasts the Isua supracrustal rocks (3.7 to 3.8 billion years old), while rocks in Swaziland are 3.4 billion to 3.5 billion years.

Meanwhile, a total of 1.71 billion shares valued at P13.2 billion changed hands, including the P5.6-billion block sale of Bloomberry shares.

The ministry provided ₦2.5 billion while the bank matched it with another ₦2.5 billion counterpart funding, bringing the total to ₦5 billion.

The bill plans additional financing of around 8.1 billion dinars ($3 billion) compared with around 12 billion previously, the document showed.

With less than 1 billion pounds ($1.4 billion) in yearly revenue, Aston’s hope for an IPO value of up to 5 billion pounds looks a little racy.

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Common combinations with billion

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • billion in 60×
  • billion billion 50×
  • billion and 37×
  • and billion 36×
  • to billion 35×
  • of billion 34×
  • billion to 33×
  • us billion 31×
  • billion for 25×
  • billion of 18×

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "billion" in a sentence?
An example: "EC has an adequate balance sheet with $3.3 billion cash, $26.9 billion long-term debt, and $22.3 billion total debt." This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "billion" from real English texts.
What does "billion" mean?
Billion means: Either of two large amounts:
What are synonyms of "billion"?
Common synonyms of "billion" include: large integer, one thousand million, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, jillion, zillion, trillion, million. Plus 4 more synonyms.
What is "billion" in Dutch?
"billion" translates to Dutch as: biljoen.
How many example sentences with "billion" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "billion", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

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