DOLLAR in a Sentence

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327 example sentences for DOLLAR, such as:
1. Yeah, he says, I bet you a dollar.
2. They debased the value of the dollar.
3. I have a half dollar but no smaller coins.
4. And poor Carry has to consider every dollar.
5. The pound was devalued against the US dollar.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DOLLAR
dollar
 n.  a United States coin worth one dollar
 n.  a symbol of commercialism or greed
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Everybody said I was lucky to get a girl to come away out here, and I agreed to give her a dollar extry to make sure.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  And naturally the British aristocracy sympathized with the Confederacy, as one aristocrat with another, against a race of dollar lovers like the Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  That in itself was enough to make the affair a success, for now a dollar in silver was worth sixty dollars in Confederate paper money.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  Scarlett took the corn and privately slipped a dollar bill into Sally's hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  Now take this dollar and buy little Joe a dress.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  I'll wager you didn't know then how many pennies were in a dollar.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  And her temper grew shorter and shorter as the weeks went by, for every dollar she saved would be just one more dollar to lose if disaster descended.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
8  She had never sent a dollar to Will that she had not been pleased that it would make Ashley's life easier.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
9  She even refused the ten- dollar gold piece which I, in my groomlike fervor, wished to present her after the wedding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
10  And poor Carry has to consider every dollar.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
11  The first thousand dollar cheque which Lily received with a blotted scrawl from Gus Trenor strengthened her self-confidence in the exact degree to which it effaced her debts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
12  I'd never grudge a dollar that was spent on that.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
13  A small-town bungalow, the wives of a village doctor and a village dry-goods merchant, a provincial teacher, a colloquial brawl over paying a servant a dollar more a week.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  Kennicott had felt rather complimented; had gone out and distributed a dollar.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  Such a society functions admirably in the large production of cheap automobiles, dollar watches, and safety razors.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
Example Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
1  The pound was devalued against the US dollar.
2  The pound has hit a new low against the dollar.
3  If he could beat his uncle out of a dollar he'd do it.
4  The standard unit of currency in the US is the dollar.
5  They debased the value of the dollar.
6  The dollar has fallen in value amid rumors of weakness in the US economy.
7  The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.
8  The dollar fell to within a hair's breadth of its all-time low.
9  The honest penny is better than the stolen dollar.
10  It was Smith who brokered the multimillion dollar deal between the two companies.
11  Yeah, he says, I bet you a dollar.
12  A depreciation of the dollar would make US exports cheaper and especially so in Japan.
13  The dollar is expected to fall in the foreign exchange markets.
14  The dollar surged against the yen in the final half hour of trading.
15  I have a half dollar but no smaller coins.