Noun
tens
plural of ten
An inexact quantity, typically understood to be between 20 and 100.
Our houses are tens of meters apart, so we don't have to worry about noise from our neighbours.
tens of thousands of voters
Synonym: dozens
(poker slang) A pair of tens.
The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The teens, the oneties.
(medicine) Initialism of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation.
(medicine) Abbreviation of toxic epidermal necrolysis.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgWe are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. Richard Feynman
No sociologist, for instance, should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time. Max Weber
Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families. Kim Campbell
I watched, along with all of you, as the tens of thousands of our people stood patiently in long queues for many hours. Some sleeping on the open ground overnight waiting to cast this momentous vote. Nelson Mandela
One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find. Jeanette Winterson
Who errs in the tens errs in the thousands. Italian Proverb