DOLLAR in a Sentence

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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.

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 Meanings and Examples of DOLLAR
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dollar
 n.  the basic monetary unit
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  Now take this dollar and buy little Joe a dress.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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)
16  A dollar is equal to one hundred cents.
17  Spread the risk by diversifying into dollar bonds.
18  The dollar was therefore the key currency under the adjustable peg system.
19  It has received an unsolicited, 15 dollar a share acquisition proposal from partners.
20  These days we all see a depreciation of the dollar against the yen.
21  He's recently signed a new 120 million dollar contract with his British-based record company after more than five years of consistent album hits and number one singles.
22  In 2002, almost 1.2 billion human beings lived in glaring poverty, earning less than one dollar a day.
23  Their solution to this quandary is a one dollar government imposed tax on every mobile phone bill.
24  Many fund managers see the dollar's recent gains as nothing more than a short-term reprieve.
25  "I hain't got only a dollar, and I want that to -- " "It don't make no difference what you want it for -- you just shell it out."
26  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.
27  The pound stayed firm against dollar in London but fell a little in New York.
28  In recognition of her efforts to win the vote for women, Congress authorized coining a silver dollar honoring the suffragist Susan B. Anthony.
29  Its decision to work on stanching a multimillion dollar mineral trade – used by rebel groups to finance one of the world's longest running and most brutal conflicts – stands in contrast to how leading representatives of corporate America have responded to the tragedy.
30  For a hit show, profits can add up to millions of dollars.