APIECE in a Sentence

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For APIECE, below is one of 11 sentences:
She had it straight from Julia Melson that they cost three hundred dollars apiece at Celeste's, but she says they didn't look it.

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 Meanings and Examples of APIECE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
apiece
 ad.  to or from every one of two or more
Classic Sentence:
1  A hundred and fifty guineas apiece.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
2  On his evidence Cartwright was hanged and the other three got fifteen years apiece.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
3  They fired a shot apiece as they started, but their bullets whizzed by and didn't do us any harm.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
4  Aunt March usually gave the sisters a present of twenty-five dollars apiece at New Year's.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
5  She had it straight from Julia Melson that they cost three hundred dollars apiece at Celeste's, but she says they didn't look it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
6  They took one apiece, and left three in it.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
7  The company drank three glassfuls apiece, and so grew more cheerful.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
8  You ought to sell all your hair at a hundred francs apiece.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER IV—GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL
Example Sentence:
1  The apples cost eighty cents apiece.
2  We wrote it together, a page apiece.
3  Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round -- more than a body could tell what to do with.