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
  • And even if the movies on schedule are successful at the box office, they aren’t expected to collectively live up to the coinage generated by the last two holiday seasons.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Beyond the extra coinage, there’s hope that theatrical releases lead to a longer-lasting cultural impact.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 Feb. 2024

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