Get to know Tens better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Tens in a sentence
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Tens meaning
plural of ten
Using Tens
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of ten
- In the example corpus, tens often appears in combinations such as: tens of, the tens, of tens.
Context around Tens
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tens
- In this selection, "tens" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, few, killed and reaching stand out and add context to how "tens" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a few tens of bases, a few tens of homers, killed tens, few tens and paying tens. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tens" sits close to words such as jay, warriors and buses, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tens
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Activists, meanwhile, vowed to continue their rallies, which have persisted for weeks, sometimes drawing tens of thousands of protesters. (19 words)
Imagine next season… pitches for 10 wins, hits a few tens of homers and steals a few tens of bases. (20 words)
According to a contested version of history, imperial Russia opened its doors to tens of thousands of Armenians fleeing the genocide. (21 words)
Bhabha did not realize, however, that the U.S. Plowshare cost-figures were produced by a vast industrial complex costing tens of billions of dollars, which had already manufactured nuclear weapons numbering in the tens of thousands. (37 words)
Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed, tens of thousands more have been wounded and maimed, and an almost incomprehensible level of destruction has occurred across much of Ukraine and parts of Russia. (36 words)
A fine for backing into a parking space is nearly as outrageous as paying hundreds of dollars to park your car on the campus that students are a paying tens of thousands of dollars to attend. (36 words)
With tens of millions of dollars at HUD’s disposal at an agency that has a budget of tens of billions, how does this money make an impact? (28 words)
How can it be said that Columbus "discovered" a land when tens of millions of people were already living there for tens of thousands of years? (26 words)
Example sentences (20)
People wishing to promote objects by means of eBay’s platform profit from the corporate’s large person base, with listed objects probably reaching tens of tens of millions of doable clients.
With tens of millions of dollars at HUD’s disposal at an agency that has a budget of tens of billions, how does this money make an impact?
Imagine next season… pitches for 10 wins, hits a few tens of homers and steals a few tens of bases.
Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed, tens of thousands more have been wounded and maimed, and an almost incomprehensible level of destruction has occurred across much of Ukraine and parts of Russia.
Folks may also use the’Art Selfie’ role to locate their portrait look equally, with their encounter scanned and compared with tens of tens of thousands of artworks exhibited in museums throughout the world.
How can it be said that Columbus "discovered" a land when tens of millions of people were already living there for tens of thousands of years?
Apparently it’s “evil” if Roger Goodell is paid tens of millions but it is not evil if a union-protected player has a salary in the tens of millions.
Bhabha did not realize, however, that the U.S. Plowshare cost-figures were produced by a vast industrial complex costing tens of billions of dollars, which had already manufactured nuclear weapons numbering in the tens of thousands.
Evaluation and characterization of ceramic microstructures is often implemented on similar spatial scales to that used commonly in the emerging field of nanotechnology: from tens of angstroms (A) to tens of micrometers (µm).
Aaliyah Tausney, 19, and Kanesly Tait, 21, started NovaUK, and you as readers loved it, with tens of thousands clicking on the article.
Abu Dhabi, which normalised relations with Assad's government in 2018, has led aid efforts in the aftermath of the February 6 earthquake that struck southeastern Turkey and northern Syria, killing tens of thousands.
Abu Eita is a former minister and current member of Egypt’s presidential pardon committee, tasked with granting clemency towards some of the tens of thousands of detainees in the Egyptian prison system.
Acceptance of the Kremlin’s insistence on a neutral Ukraine would likely have prevented the ongoing war that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
According to a contested version of history, imperial Russia opened its doors to tens of thousands of Armenians fleeing the genocide.
Activist Maya Cheesman, 12, took action to help those impacted by a huge earthquake which killed tens of thousands of people, after seeing devastating news reports from her homeland five months ago.
Activists, meanwhile, vowed to continue their rallies, which have persisted for weeks, sometimes drawing tens of thousands of protesters.
A fine for backing into a parking space is nearly as outrageous as paying hundreds of dollars to park your car on the campus that students are a paying tens of thousands of dollars to attend.
After the report of the government contemplating the slaughter of tens of thousands of cows surfaced, the country's agriculture department issued a statement.
A homeowner daubed 'watch p*rn, not me' across their roof to seemingly mock nosy neighbours spying on Maps - but the stunt backfired as tens of thousands are now flocking to view it.
A key Republican lawmaker said Fox News’ Tucker Carlson doesn’t have unrestricted access to tens of thousands of hours of Jan.
Phrases with tens
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with tens
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- tens of 204×
- the tens 18×
- of tens 12×
- to tens 9×
- by tens 9×
- with tens 7×
- killed tens 5×
- for tens 5×
- and tens 5×
- in tens 4×