How to Use coinage in a Sentence

coinage

noun

• Coinage was scarce in the colonies.
• The word “blog” is a recent coinage.
• By 1815 his coinage had made it across the English Channel.
  — Ruth Walker, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2017
• Around the same time, the Greeks came up with a pretty nifty invention — coinage.
  — Richard Jakiel, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2019
• The issuing of coinage and postage stamps tends to be the first order of business for a new state.
  — Geoff Manaugh, The Atlantic, 20 July 2021
• The first contains a small amount of coinage which symbolizes the monarch's gift for food and clothing.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 14 Apr. 2022
• With the passage of the Acts of Union, coinage, taxes and trade were standardized across Great Britain.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2020
• So the movie will require a little more coinage than Peele’s past films to turn a profit.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 24 July 2022
• Now, more than a decade later, the coinage is gaining new, legal, heft.
  — Tom Simonite, Wired, 29 Jan. 2021
• His coinage started to catch on, thanks to those who were grateful to have a name for their affliction.
  — Yohana Desta, VanityFair.com, 3 July 2017
• His coinage started to catch on, thanks to those who were grateful to have a name for their affliction.
  — Yohana Desta, HWD, 3 July 2017
• The coinage from Nero’s reign also documents her eclipse.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
• Coinage tells us what some of the world's biggest fountains do with those tons of coins each year, and the answer is quite surprising.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• That means Peele’s third feature is not quite profitable yet and will require a little more coinage than his past films to get out of the red.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022
• The coinage also follows tradition as Charles' portrait turns to the left, while his mother's faces the right.
  — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
• He is known for his effigy of the Queen which appears on UK and Commonwealth coinage since 1998.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 28 Aug. 2020
• The first contained a small amount of ordinary coinage which symbolizes the monarch’s gift for food and clothing.
  — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• But ticket sales are already proving the extra coinage was worth it.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 26 Mar. 2023
• That’s more coinage than many films manage to earn in their entire theatrical runs.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 19 Feb. 2023
• The British cringed over new American accents, coinages and vulgarisms.
  — Time, 11 June 2019
• The book was a best seller, and its titular coinage has since sunk into the lexicon.
  — Jessica Pressler, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Sep. 2017
• Since its first coinage in 1786, Saussure’s name for glacially sculpted rocks and mountains has taken on a life of its own.
  — Marnie McInnes, The Atlantic, 7 July 2017
• Humor, in his work, is never far from horror — may indeed be the coinage of a horrified brain.
  — Rhoda Feng, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• Jerome Powell is a great messager (there’s an obvious new coinage).
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
• This isn’t a new phenomenon: Though the term is of recent coinage, the essence of the dirty martini — adding olive brine to the classic cocktail — dates back to the start of the 20th century.
  — Becky Hughes, New York Times, 13 July 2023
• The 'rich chocolate pie' costs under $2 also, which is obviously well worth the coinage — sure, the flight will be a little bit more, but still worth it.
  — Jess Edwards, Cosmopolitan, 20 Aug. 2017
• Henry's coinage was the first to be cast in gold since the Norman Conquest, with the economy relying on silver coins since then.
  — CNN, 17 Jan. 2022
• Elevated levels of lead gave the Romans away — a byproduct of the silver smelting used to make their unique coinage.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2018
• King Charles' mother was also pictured in it across British and Commonwealth coinage, banknotes and stamps.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 17 July 2024
• Historians have long debated where the silver for that coinage came from.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024