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Little Lucie whispered to me that they were going to have a parlour carpet if they got ninety cents for their wheat.

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 Meanings and Examples of CENTS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cent
 n.  a monetary unit of the US, Canada, equal to one hundredth of a dollar
Classic Sentence: (94 in 7 pages)
1  Cotton is at seventy-two cents a pound already.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  Oh, you're smart enough about dollars and cents.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
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.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
6  Little Lucie whispered to me that they were going to have a parlour carpet if they got ninety cents for their wheat.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
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.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
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.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
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.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
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.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
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.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
12  Here they searched Jurgis, leaving him only his money, which consisted of fifteen cents.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
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.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
14  "Here," he said, holding out the fourteen cents.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
15  It took him two hours to get to this place every day and cost him a dollar and twenty cents a week.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
16  The poor man is not the man without a cent, but the man without a dream.
17  Five per cent of children stammer at some point.
18  Sales rose by nought point four per cent last month.
19  The increase will not be in excess of two per cent.
20  Thirteen per cent of the population live below the poverty line.
21  Sixty per cent of all marital separations occur before the tenth year of marriage.
22  Ninety per cent of lone parent families are headed by mothers.
23  The percentage of school leavers that go to university is about five per cent.
24  Ten per cent of the population lived in poverty.
25  Forty per cent of the population is suffering from malnutrition.
26  Pay increases were pegged at five per cent.
27  Ninety per cent of American rubbish is dumped in landfill sites.
28  The plant provides forty per cent of the country's electricity.
29  The adrenals produce a large per cent of a man's sex hormones.
30  But turnout was extremely disappointing, only around forty five per cent of eligible voters.