How to use "hundred" in a sentence

I have been awake for over a hundred hours

Five hundred thousand people were there to say goodbye

When my head was finally above the waves, I saw that the Abraham Lincoln was more than one hundred feet away.

What all of us thought was a large whale was a three-hundred foot long underwater ship

After about a hundred hours on a bus, me and a lot of other new young soldiers arrived there

After about a month, I was winning nearly two hundred dollars a week, arm-wrestling

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free

One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination

One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity

One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land

Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether."

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days

John McCarthy said later, 'It looked more like the work of a devil than of a man.' And Mrs Prater, who looked through the window, said, 'I can never forget it if I live to be a hundred.'

'But what about the candlesticks? I gave you those as well, don't you remember? They're silver like the rest, and worth at least two hundred francs

'I owe a hundred francs

"So we need you to enter your details and then transfer two hundred and forty thousand pounds to this account

Bank manager receives two hundred and forty thousand pound salary despite bank failure." He stops and tries to turn to look at us, but Robin pulls the trigger back on the gun

She looks over her shoulder again quickly and automatically as if she does it a hundred times a day

In its place there are a thousand adverts on a hundred television screens, a sea of lights that constantly move and change.

He had about three hundred bucks left in the world

Everyone was given one hundred energy units a week, and they had to be careful not to use them too quickly

'The picture is about two hundred years old

From that, she moved up through a series of similar positions in larger lounges, then in small showrooms that seated four or five hundred in second-rate hotels with limited show budgets

More than a hundred paperbacks were ranked alphabetically on a five-shelf bookcase

He wore blue jeans, a cheap blue work shirt - and about two hundred thousand dollars' worth of rings

The Pyramid had been built at a cost in excess of four hundred million dollars, and the owners had made certain that every last dime showed

Carol had been shiny-eyed and breathless because the high rollers had tipped her with green chips, as if they'd been winning instead of losing; for bringing them half a dozen drinks, she had collected twelve hundred dollars.

Eighteen hundred guests had been invited - Las Vegas movers and shakers, plus high rollers from out of town

More than fifteen hundred had returned their RSVP cards.

The Nevada Nuclear Test Site, where underground detonations were conducted several times a year, was less than a hundred miles north of Las Vegas

"Eat takeout food at two hundred miles an hour in the Batmobile, and no matter how messy it gets - just hose off later."

An overturned stool lay beside him, and approximately five hundred dollars' worth of green chips were scattered on the carpet

Hundred-foot-long signs-five - hundred-foot-long signs - towered five or even ten stories above the street, glittering, winking, thousands of miles of bright glass tubing filled with glowing gas, blinking, swirling, hundreds of thousands of bulbs, spelling out hotel names, forming pictures with light

Tina waited until at least a hundred names had been listed before she decided that the system had been programmed to print the lines about Danny only one time, only on her office's first data request of the afternoon, and on no later call-up.

The vehicle skidded, then dropped a hundred feet straight onto rocks

The bus opened like a tin can and rolled another hundred feet into the trees.

Approximately two hundred guests danced or milled about behind the house, and another hundred partied within its twenty rooms.

"A couple hundred bucks

Alexander, on the other hand, was the scion of a Pennsylvania family that had been wealthy and powerful for a hundred and fifty years, perhaps longer

I'll bet a hundred bucks to a dime Elliot slipped out of town under your nose."

The Cessna hit an air pocket, dropped three hundred feet with a sickening lurch, and then soared to its correct altitude.

The rear of Bellicosti's house was almost a hundred yards away

Elliot ran toward the Chevy, which Tina had brought to a stop a hundred yards away

It seemed more like a hundred miles

Lesser amounts, ranging from only one hundred million to as much as half a billion, were secretly extracted from the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, and other government bodies on an annual basis.

The set came in a leatherette-covered case and sold for a hundred dollars.

Elliot also bought a hundred rounds of hollow-point ammunition for the pistol

The new track ran a hundred yards before rising and turning sharply to the right, around the blunt face of a ridge

A hundred and fifty yards farther, they reached another sharp turn

For two hundred yards ahead, until the road curved once more, nothing threatening was in sight.

This broad shelf in the mountainside couldn't have been as large or as regularly shaped in its natural state as it was now: three hundred yards wide, two hundred yards deep, almost a perfect rectangle

Two hundred yards away, at the far side of the concrete field, stood a one-story windowless building, approximately a hundred feet long, with a steeply pitched slate roof.

The only feature in the hundred-foot-long, one-story, windowless concrete facade was a wide steel door

The intersecting hall began directly in front of them, across from the guardroom, and bored at least four hundred feet into the mountain; a long row of doors waited on each side of it, and other corridors opened off it as well.

This level was the same size as the one on which they entered the complex: more than four hundred feet on one side, and more than one hundred feet on the other

How many rooms? Forty? Fifty? Sixty? A hundred, counting closets?

It wasn't much of a smile; it quivered on his lips as if sustaining it required more energy than lifting a hundred-pound weight

Wuhan-400's kill-rate is one hundred percent

But we've checked our data a hundred times, and we can't find anything wrong with that diagnosis

Eighty, ninety, a hundred feet they soared, soared straight up into the night.

By this time, we had passed the one-year mark in the development process, and I knew we were not going to wind up with a usable script, so I didn't insist on discussing whether the rubber tires would melt off the vehicle within two hundred yards or three, or ponder at what point the gasoline tank might explode

Denning, our greatest astronomer, said that the height of its first appearance was about one hundred and fifty kilometres

It seemed to him that it fell to Earth about a hundred kilometres east of him.

The crowd around the pit had increased to a couple of hundred people, perhaps

I turned and ran madly towards the first group of trees, perhaps a hundred metres away

One hundred and sixteen were now in position, mainly covering London

They went back a hundred metres in the direction they had come

He got to his feet and saw to the right, less than a hundred metres away, the warship cutting through the water at full speed, throwing enormous waves out on either side.

It went straight towards a second Martian, and was within a hundred metres of it when the Heat-Rav hit it

The top of a Martian fighting-machine came into sight over the house tops, less than a hundred metres away from us

'"One hundred pounds," I she said.

They write to her and tell her to send them a hundred pounds, or they will tell her new husband everything

I sent the servant a hundred pounds, and told her to come to this cottage

In one year, he had one hundred and fourteen street fights with other dogs

Imagine my feelings, Walter, when I saw my dear sister there in the asylum, and that everyone believed she was Anne Catherick! I gave the nurse one hundred pounds to help Laura escape

Mary was writing about women and the vote a hundred years before women started fighting for it

This was 100 years after some women first got the vote and almost a hundred years after Nancy Astor entered Parliament.

She said later, "When I was two or three hundred feet off the ground, I knew I had to fly."