I took out a thousand-dollar bill and laid it on the desk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]

On her it looked like a thousand-dollar Rodeo Drive production.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Empress File]

He joyously strewed thousand-dollar bills in his wife's lap, crying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference

"Then I'll bet you this," I said, pulling out a thousand-dollar note.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference

Just now, though, a ruined thousand-dollar suit is no big deal at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Of Storms]

Condi was theatergoing and buying thousand-dollar shoes on Fifth Avene.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Those Who Voted for Bush: Do You Get It Now?] Reference

His thousand-dollar suit had been torn off the closet hanger and trampled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad Luck and Trouble]

It was a thousand-dollar scholarship that could see me through most of four years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir] Reference

"Who was the thousand-dollar suit with the long face I just passed on the stairs?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

Eventually a medium-sized man in Italian shoes and a thousand-dollar suit walked over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad Luck and Trouble]

I mean, you know, it sounds like he's throwing out thousand-dollar tips to the bellhop.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2003] Reference

But now I'm not going over and asking them to buy me this thirty thousand-dollar vehicle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with John Ledford, January 3, 2001. Interview K-0251. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Are you going to send them a bill at the end of every month for a thousand-dollar premium?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2007] Reference

Willi was in a much better mood since he had been paid his thousand-dollar prize by each of us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prayers To Broken Stones]

But the scrounging operation seems to have dug down very deep to pull in thousand-dollar gifts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton's Donor List Raises Lots of Questions] Reference

With freight rates up 40%, the ten thousand-dollar order wouldn't cover their own freight costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oil Panic of 2008] Reference

That had led to three-thousand-dollar hammers, thousand-dollar toilet seats, the whole nine yards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuader]

The average family is going to probably be hit this year by a thousand-dollar increase over last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2005] Reference

I had a dream, I told them last Sunday, I dreamt that somebody wrote me a seven thousand-dollar check.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Bert Pickett, December 18, 1999. Interview K-0285. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

It is nothing to them to be able to dazzle this poor town with thousand-dollar rewards -- at no expense?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pudd'nhead Wilson] Reference

It was amateur hour, brought to you by the same folks who buy thousand-dollar toilet seats and run the DMV.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2008] Reference

It's pretty frightening when you consider that a lot of people have thousand-dollar deductibles on their cars.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2007] Reference

NGUYEN: I think we're all just trying to be a little more mindful about it to prevent that thousand-dollar fee.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2007] Reference

Often tens of thousands of dollars in value, mostly in thousand-dollar notes, were found on single individuals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commandant of Auschwitz]

"You know it's less than a month since you sent us that thousand-dollar bill that took us to the World's Series.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference

So the problem with the current crisis is not that I bought too many motorcycles or ate too many thousand-dollar dinners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ross Hyzer: Getting Back on the Horse] Reference

I went out and asked the producer to make a thousand-dollar contribution to the Humane Society to show his good intentions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]

"Deal," Jackie said and steered her to a jewelry store where she coaxed her into buying a thousand-dollar pair of diamond studs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pull of the Moon]

Those two Cs and the thousand-dollar pricetag evidently make the difference between the unspeakable and the un-live-without-able.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patt Morrison: Nouvelle ``Bague'' -- A Bunch of Fashion Sad Sacks] Reference

Next thing you know you've got yourself a two hundred thousand-dollar house with space that you can't find in a conventional house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Floyd Adams, August 16, 2002. Interview R-0168. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

For a typical middle class family with two children, the child tax credit alone amounts to a thousand-dollar raise in take-home pay.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Statement On The Economy] Reference