decamillion

Example Sentences

• "You have no life, and so you do not know what it means to deny what has been the meaning of your life, for if you’ve been wrong, mark you now, if you’ve been wrong, then what of the decamillion of graves, and so you’re committed, you’re committed wholly, do you understand? and each action you perform can only confirm you further in your political position or what I would now call the lack of one, and there’s only the nightmare of yourself if you’re wrong, […]"
• "And this more fabulous than invalid Broadway was already getting ready for another upbeat year with a decamillion-plus advance sale for a musical that isn’t expected to open until April 1991."
• "Drawing on Gerald D. Nash’s historiography, [James C.] Work rehearses the necessary background—the so-called closing of the frontier, the migration of decamillions of people into the twentieth-century West, then the subsequent anomie, “disjunction” among the cultures involved, and environmental devastation—and arrives at a consequence: the utter difficulty, for contemporary writers acutely aware of what has transpired, of writing about the “West of ‘once upon a time.’”"
• "Were his fortunes to evaporate and leave him completely broke, Xizor would still not sell this plant, not if somebody offered him a decamillion credits."
• "Nearly 300 million computers worldwide installed Windgazer 99 beginning June 8, 1999. Decamillions of those users worshipped the Windgazer 99 screen saver as a gift from the heavens."
• "Even coming from my conditioning of nihilism and dread, without the comfort of simple beliefs, aware of awesome human evil and hatred, of wars that kill decamillions, I can be, I will be, an expression of contentless faith."