MONEY in a Sentence

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For MONEY, below is one of 420 sentences:
They had a bitter quarrel about/over some money three years ago and they haven't spoken to each other since.

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 Meanings and Examples of MONEY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
money
 n.  coins or notes that are used to buy things
 n.  the value of what a person or organization owns, keeps in a bank
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Besides, he hated lying; if he wanted the money he wanted it, and it was nobody's business to ask why.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  He had foreseen an immediate demand for money, but not a permanent drain on his scant resources.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  You know I haven't got the money to pay for a girl, Zeena.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  A moment ago he had wondered what he and Mattie were to live on when they reached the West; now he saw that he had not even the money to take her there.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
5  He was planning to take advantage of the Hales' sympathy to obtain money from them on false pretences.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
6  Their family had more money, more horses, more slaves than any one else in the County, but the boys had less grammar than most of their poor Cracker neighbors.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  These latter young men were as anxious to fight the Yankees, should war come, as were their richer neighbors; but the delicate question of money arose.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  But Gerald had known poverty, and he could never learn to lose money with good humor or good grace.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  If the money it contained happened to belong to the firm of O'Hara Brothers, Gerald's conscience was not sufficiently troubled to confess it before Mass the following morning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  He cleared the fields and planted cotton and borrowed more money from James and Andrew to buy more slaves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  They lent Gerald the money and, in the years that followed, the money came back to them with interest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  I've made me money and I can make a great family.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  They had money enough and slaves enough to give them time to play, and they liked to play.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  "Men mahys dem fer dey money," said Mammy firmly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
15  "He has a lot of money," she was thinking swiftly, as a thought and a plan went through her brain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Save money against a rainy day.
17  It was an age of conspicuous consumption — those who had money liked to display it.
18  They had a bitter quarrel about/over some money three years ago and they haven't spoken to each other since.
19  Love of money is the root of all evil.
20  She's been promising to pay back the money for six months, but I reckon she's just stringing me along.
21  He'd already spent all his money by the second day of the trip.
22  I've spent all my money already.
23  The robbers not only took his money but also laid into him.
24  Success in making money is not always a good criterion of success in life.
25  The money was distributed among schools in the area.
26  We've saved a considerable amount of money.
27  There is a limit to the amount of money I can afford.
28  In an invoice the amount of money should be written both in words and in figures.
29  The majority of students find it quite hard to live on the amount of money they get.
30  By any yardstick, that's a large amount of money.