CENTS in a Sentence
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132 example sentences for CENTS, such as:
1. The apples cost eighty cents apiece.
2. A dollar is equal to one hundred cents.
3. Oh, you're smart enough about dollars and cents.
4. But fifty cents a pound is a thousand dollars a ton.
5. You must allow for five per cent wastage in transit.
2. A dollar is equal to one hundred cents.
3. Oh, you're smart enough about dollars and cents.
4. But fifty cents a pound is a thousand dollars a ton.
5. You must allow for five per cent wastage in transit.
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Meanings and Examples of CENTS
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cent
n. a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
n. a fractional monetary unit of several countries
Classic Sentence: (94 in 7 pages)
1 Cotton is at seventy-two cents a pound already.
2 Oh, you're smart enough about dollars and cents.
3 To this end, he built a hurdle in the back yard and paid Wash, one of Uncle Peter's small nephews, twenty-five cents a day to teach Mr. Butler to jump.
4 The rest of the meeting they gave to a bellicose investigation of the fact that there was seventeen cents less than there should be in the Fund.
5 The Black Hawk money-lender who held mortgages on Peter's livestock was there, and he bought in the sale notes at about fifty cents on the dollar.
6 Little Lucie whispered to me that they were going to have a parlour carpet if they got ninety cents for their wheat.
7 There are learned people who can tell you out of the statistics that beef-boners make forty cents an hour, but, perhaps, these people have never looked into a beef-boner's hands.
8 First there were the "splitters," the most expert workmen in the plant, who earned as high as fifty cents an hour, and did not a thing all day except chop hogs down the middle.
9 It had cost fifty cents; but Elzbieta had a feeling that money spent for such things was not to be counted too closely, it would come back in hidden ways.
10 The best paid men, the "splitters," made fifty cents an hour, which would be five or six dollars a day in the rush seasons, and one or two in the dullest.
11 All of their sausage came out of the same bowl, but when they came to wrap it they would stamp some of it "special," and for this they would charge two cents more a pound.
12 Here they searched Jurgis, leaving him only his money, which consisted of fifteen cents.
13 He paid one of his fifteen cents for a postal card, and his companion wrote a note to the family, telling them where he was and when he would be tried.
14 "Here," he said, holding out the fourteen cents.
15 It took him two hours to get to this place every day and cost him a dollar and twenty cents a week.
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1 After news of Rupert Murdoch's ambitious move, the company's share value rose rapidly, opening at 37 dollars and 12 cents and going up to 57 dollars and 28 cents before trading was halted by the New York Stock Exchange.
2 "What did you do with the ten cents, Jim?" "Well, I 'uz gwyne to spen' it, but I had a dream."
3 But fifty cents a pound is a thousand dollars a ton.
4 The apples cost eighty cents apiece.
5 A dollar is equal to one hundred cents.
6 They can take their three cents an hour raise and shove it.
7 One of the perks of business travel is frequent-flyer points; a trip may end with a large dose of jet lag, but at least some points will be earned, which can be redeemed for benefits worth 1.5 cents for each.
8 You must allow for five per cent wastage in transit.
9 Now is the time for the Chancellor to take the bull by the horns and announce a two per cent cut in interest rates.
10 Fifteen per cent of the population attend a place of worship.
11 One per cent of total public spending should eventually go towards the arts.
12 The brain accounts for merely three per cent of body weight.
13 Due to unforeseen circumstances the cost of the improvements has risen by twenty per cent.
14 Some analysts estimate its current popularity at around ten per cent.
15 Eighty per cent of sewage is piped directly into the sea.