NICKEL in a Sentence

Learn NICKEL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for NICKEL, such as:

1. So Jurgis went out into another place, and paid another nickel.
2. The EU recently shredded old euro coins and sent the scrap nickel and copper to China.
3. Some of these older people would give me a nickel, others a quarter, or a handkerchief.
4. Parts were of nickel, parts of ivory, parts had certainly been filed or sawn out of rock crystal.
5. The conductor took his nickel gingerly, with the tips of his fingers, and then left him with the platform to himself.

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 Meanings and Examples of NICKEL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
nickel
 n.  coin worth one twentieth of a dollar
Classic Sentence:
1  But they were welcomed warmly enough in the kitchen, with its crisp new plaster, its black and nickel range, its cream separator in a corner.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  The stove was very large, with bright nickel trimmings, and behind it there was a long wooden bench against the wall, and a tin washtub, into which grandmother poured hot and cold water.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
3  The conductor took his nickel gingerly, with the tips of his fingers, and then left him with the platform to himself.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
4  So Jurgis went out into another place, and paid another nickel.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
5  Parts were of nickel, parts of ivory, parts had certainly been filed or sawn out of rock crystal.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In I
6  Some of these older people would give me a nickel, others a quarter, or a handkerchief.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III.
7  And so the other women turned out the contents of their pocketbooks; most of them had only pennies and nickels, but they gave him all.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
Example Sentence:
1  The United States five-cent coin, commonly called a nickel, is a unit of currency equaling one-twentieth, or five hundredths, of a United States dollar.
2  The EU recently shredded old euro coins and sent the scrap nickel and copper to China.