How to Use banknote in a Sentence

banknote

noun
  • Dollars aside, all tangible signs suggest the reign of peso banknotes is ending.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Yet Austen was not the first choice to grace the banknote.
    Smithsonian, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The new banknote is designed to ease some of these problems.
    Julia Malleck, Quartz, 23 May 2023
  • But the tuple of the banknote, receipt and change were something more than art.
    David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Among the features in those U.S. banknotes were, of course, colored threads.
    David Hamilton, Fortune, 18 July 2023
  • The new banknote will take a number of years to be designed and printed.
    Town & Country, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Some people are likely avoiding banknotes and coins to steer clear of germs.
    John Detrixhe, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Now imagine that the same wallet contained a few crisp banknotes.
    The Economist, 22 June 2019
  • The Bank of England's latest banknote design is—pardon the pun—notable for two things.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2021
  • In the meantime, the current $5 banknote will continue to be issued.
    Town & Country, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Meanwhile, Nigeria is the only country in West Africa with a banknote printer and mint.
    Kingsley Kobo, Quartz, 30 Dec. 2021
  • In his address last month, Buhari disclosed that around 80% of those funds had been returned to the banks since the unveiling of the new banknotes in November.
    Stephanie Busari, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The court said the old banknotes should continue to be legal tender, alongside new versions, until the end of this year.
    Stephanie Busari, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The effect was to suppress an important rival of the check — the banknote — and guarantee its role in the economy for decades to come.
    David Scharfenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • The currency mix-up can sort of be rationalized by the fact that Malaysia and the Philippines have banknotes in similar shades of blue.
    Christopher Bagley, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2018
  • In addition, gold is costly to store and trade compared with banknotes and deposits.
    Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Try using the banknotes printed in Northern Ireland on the mainland.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 10 Feb. 2018
  • The current banknote features a portrait of Queen Elizabeth, who died in September at the age of 96.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Not plastic pennies or a new series of banknotes, but rationing stamps.
    Vogue, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Indians are using their 2,000-rupee banknotes to buy up petrol and diesel.
    Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 23 May 2023
  • King Charles' mother was also pictured in it across British and Commonwealth coinage, banknotes and stamps.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 17 July 2024
  • Plenty of central banks run museums of coins and banknotes.
    The Economist, 28 June 2019
  • So some other approach is required to reassemble this area of a banknote.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Whether this skirt or another piece from this era of Gaultier, searching for the banknote print is a great way to find a piece within this collection.
    By Megan O'Sullivan, Vogue, 27 June 2024
  • There is Europium in the Euro banknote because of its glowiness.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Swiss take top place in world banknote competition (again).
    Lorcan Roche Kelly, Bloomberg.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • By 2016, a hundred-trillion-dollar banknote was worth only about forty U.S. cents.
    Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The Queen first appeared on a banknote in 1935, when Canada produced a series showing an image of the then Princess Elizabeth aged just eight.
    Phil Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 17 Apr. 2020
  • McWilliams said India’s growth had been slowed by restrictions on high-value banknotes and a new sales tax, a view shared by economists polled by Reuters.
    Reuters, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2017
  • While the pesos go into his wallet, two other banknotes are stuck to his office window.
    The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018

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