Explore Hundred through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like cardinal or century. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Hundred in a sentence
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Hundred meaning
- A numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine.
- The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.
Using Hundred
- The main meaning on this page is: A numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine. | The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.
- Useful related words include: 100, c, one hundred, cardinal.
- In the example corpus, hundred often appears in combinations such as: few hundred, one hundred, several hundred.
Context around Hundred
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 13 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hundred
- In this selection, "hundred" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, two, five, few, thousand, days and people stand out and add context to how "hundred" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2011 two hundred and three, 7 one hundred days of, few hundred, hundred years and two hundred. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hundred" sits close to words such as spokesman, contributed and ad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hundred
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He’s only spent a few hundred million so far, only a few hundred million. (15 words)
The passengers numbered about three hundred on a boat designed for at the most a hundred. (16 words)
Twelve hundred people were murdered and more than two hundred were kidnapped and brought to Gaza. (16 words)
A report tabled by the IC last year revealed that Mr. Barnett and his wife, as at November 2021, owed the NWC almost two-hundred thousand dollars in wastewater fees and almost seven-hundred thousand dollars for water charges. (39 words)
There were beard trimmers at two hundred and forty nine bucks, vegetable cutting machines for less than five hundred, air-conditioners going dirt cheap, they said, T-shirts at one ninety nine, and cricket bats starting at two fifty! (39 words)
Check out his blog and his podcast, where he conducts interviews and enumerates personal facts, including number of burpees performed since 2011 (two hundred and three thousand five hundred and seventy-eight) and times mugged (many). (36 words)
There were beard trimmers at two hundred and forty nine bucks, vegetable cutting machines for less than five hundred, air-conditioners going dirt cheap, they said, T-shirts at one ninety nine, and cricket bats starting at two fifty! (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
It has been one hundred days since October 7. One hundred days OF October 7. One hundred days – when time has stood still.
The most we ever played for was six-way $50 nassaus, a hundred on the front, a hundred on the back, and a hundred on the 18.
The Victrola Book of the Opera: Stories of One Hundred and Twenty Operas with Seven-Hundred Illustrations and Descriptions of Twelve-Hundred Victor Opera Records.
Check out his blog and his podcast, where he conducts interviews and enumerates personal facts, including number of burpees performed since 2011 (two hundred and three thousand five hundred and seventy-eight) and times mugged (many).
Justice Ikponmwonba convicted and sentenced Gregory and Okunrobo to three years imprisonment with an option of Five Hundred Thousand Naira fine while Beggedo bagged three years imprisonment or a fine of Two Hundred Thousand Naira.
The crew had gathered for a solemn ceremony, to pay tribute to the more than fifteen hundred people who had died in the most famous maritime disaster more than a hundred years ago.
The passengers numbered about three hundred on a boat designed for at the most a hundred.
Unlike a hundred different deer had done a hundred times before, he didn’t pause just inside the wood line and wait until dark.
When they’re complete, the Wolf Ranch houses will range from fifteen hundred to twenty-one hundred square feet and come equipped with solar panels on their pitched metal roofs.
A report tabled by the IC last year revealed that Mr. Barnett and his wife, as at November 2021, owed the NWC almost two-hundred thousand dollars in wastewater fees and almost seven-hundred thousand dollars for water charges.
By the 1910s, Plinky had become the first woman to hit a hundred straight clay pigeons (a feat she would eventually repeat about two hundred times).
There were beard trimmers at two hundred and forty nine bucks, vegetable cutting machines for less than five hundred, air-conditioners going dirt cheap, they said, T-shirts at one ninety nine, and cricket bats starting at two fifty!
Twelve hundred people were murdered and more than two hundred were kidnapped and brought to Gaza.
Greater Johannesburg consists of more than five hundred suburbs in an area covering more than two hundred square miles (520 square kilometres).
He’s only spent a few hundred million so far, only a few hundred million.
Karl says a hundred to a couple hundred people visit the museum on a typical day which would roughly equate to 50 to 100 cars so, restricting where they park could impact their business.
Kinney is moving from a community college with at 53-hundred students to Iowa Western, where about 65-hundred are enrolled.
Only a few hundred languages have genuinely been given a place in education systems and the public domain, and less than a hundred are used in the digital world.
The Chinese bear much of it, but there is no way that the mistakes made in China needed to result in seventy thousand, a hundred thousand, or two hundred thousand Americans dying.
The Vityaz has a rate of fire of eight hundred rounds per minute, with a maximum range of two hundred meters.
Phrases with hundred
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Common combinations with hundred
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