Synonyms:
tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings
Meaning: a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers"
Usage examples
Now and then we paid up back scores.
Now and then we paid up back scores.
Scores of people visited the lighthouse.
Their men are falling by the scores and hundreds."
At once we set to work on the scores of hoses that quivered over the floor with each move of the distant monsters.
These men, and scores of others that we cannot find space for here, spread the fame of their native country everywhere.
Hundreds of police, regiments of soldiers and scores of volunteers were sent into the doomed district to warn the people to flee.
The pitiless August sun burned on and the dust that had been trodden up by the scores of thousands hung in clouds low, but almost motionless.
Trails ran in every direction, the bark had been rubbed from scores of saplings, and every step gave fresh evidence of the near presence of game.
Scores of Congressmen, anxious to refute the idea that the indomitable picket had had anything to do with their action, revealed naively how surely it had.