DOLLARS 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 DOLLARS
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dollar
 n.  the basic monetary unit
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  "Five hundred dollars," he said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  People who did not like him said that after every trip he made to Atlanta, prices jumped five dollars.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  Why, he even gave me a hundred dollars for the orphans.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  "It would cost about two thousand dollars, Confederate money," he said with a grin at her woebegone expression.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
14  Shoes cost from two hundred to eight hundred dollars a pair, depending on whether they were made of "cardboard" or real leather.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  In Liverpool it would bring one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, but there was no hope of getting it to Liverpool.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
16  The production of the film cost twenty million US dollars.
17  A careless mistake cost the company millions of dollars.
18  We estimate the cost to be four thousand dollars.
19  Millions of dollars were poured into the maw of defense spending.
20  I'd like to have dinner for sixty dollars including drinks.
21  She got eight million dollars for appearing in that film.
22  This one is eight hundred dollars.
23  The federal government gambled hundreds of thousands of dollars in research funds to work on the project.
24  The book sold for a matter of five dollars.
25  The country owes billions of dollars to foreign creditors.
26  This vase is worth several hundred dollars.
27  I owe the landlord one hundred dollars.
28  We rated his fortune at about one hundred thousand dollars.
29  His wages are three hundred dollars a week.
30  They kept back five dollars from her wages for income tax.