1. The steps had been worn smooth by the thousands of passing feet.

2. These telephones have sold by the thousand.

3. We sell ice - creams by the thousand in the summer.

4. People have come by the thousands to pay respects.

5. The early Christian martyrs were killed by the thousands.

6. Letters under the privy seal were prepared by the thousand, and instructions were sent to the chief commissioners in each shire.

7. They gather by the thousands in the footprints of deer, dogs, and people.

8. Coffeehouses at that time were springing up by the thousands, and they were usually men-only establishments.

9. This product was sold by the thousand.

10. The cement is sold by the thousand.Sentencedict

11. Our candidate will rake in votes by the thousand.

12. Submachine guns mowed down students by the hundreds, perhaps by the thousands.

13. Fitted with a cell-phone camera and gyros built around a tiny custom processor, the DASH could be carried by the thousand in a backpack or kicked by the boxful out of a helicopter.

14. These are only representative examples By the dozen, or by the thousand.