DOLLARS in a Sentence
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327 example sentences for DOLLARS, such as:
1. They've spent nearly a billion dollars on it already.
2. Why, he even gave me a hundred dollars for the orphans.
3. The final cost could be as much as one billion dollars.
4. You can be paid in pounds sterling or American dollars.
5. He had run up credit card debts of thousands of dollars.
2. Why, he even gave me a hundred dollars for the orphans.
3. The final cost could be as much as one billion dollars.
4. You can be paid in pounds sterling or American dollars.
5. He had run up credit card debts of thousands of dollars.
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Meanings and Examples of DOLLARS
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dollar
n. a United States coin worth one dollar
n. a symbol of commercialism or greed
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 His wife died of the disclosure, and Mattie, at twenty, was left alone to make her way on the fifty dollars obtained from the sale of her piano.
2 The latter did not know how to begin, but at length he managed to bring out his request for an advance of fifty dollars.
3 If he could get Mrs. Hale's ear he felt certain of success, and with fifty dollars in his pocket nothing could keep him from Mattie.
4 The thousands of immigrants who'd be glad to fight for the Yankees for food and a few dollars, the factories, the foundries, the shipyards, the iron and coal mines--all the things we haven't got.
5 The insult had occurred on a day when Pitty wished to draw five hundred dollars from her estate, of which he was trustee, to invest in a non-existent gold mine.
6 "Five hundred dollars," he said.
7 People who did not like him said that after every trip he made to Atlanta, prices jumped five dollars.
8 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.
9 It was said that he was at the head of a combine worth more than a million dollars, with Wilmington as its headquarters for the purpose of buying blockade goods on the docks.
10 Why, he even gave me a hundred dollars for the orphans.
11 "It would cost about two thousand dollars, Confederate money," he said with a grin at her woebegone expression.
12 I shall say one hundred dollars and she'll tell everybody in town and everybody will be green with envy and talk about my extravagance.
13 Beef, pork and butter cost thirty-five dollars a pound, flour fourteen hundred dollars a barrel, soda one hundred dollars a pound, tea five hundred dollars a pound.
14 Shoes cost from two hundred to eight hundred dollars a pair, depending on whether they were made of "cardboard" or real leather.
15 In Liverpool it would bring one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, but there was no hope of getting it to Liverpool.
Example Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
1 For a hit show, profits can add up to millions of dollars.
2 You can be paid in pounds sterling or American dollars.
3 The total sales of the company didn't amount to more than a few million dollars.
4 He changed his pounds for the equivalent amount of dollars.
5 I had no dollars, but offered him an equivalent amount of sterling.
6 Drugs have been seized with a street value of two million dollars.
7 The final cost could be as much as one billion dollars.
8 In the last ten years Imperial Oil had ploughed a billion dollars into the Canadian economy.
9 The national debt stands at fifty-five billion dollars.
10 Five billion dollars of this year's budget is already earmarked for hospital improvements.
11 They've spent nearly a billion dollars on it already.
12 A disastrous business venture lost him thousands of dollars.
13 He had run up credit card debts of thousands of dollars.
14 I would rather loan a million dollars on character than on any other collateral in the world.
15 Many countries charge departure tax in US dollars rather than local currency.