How to Use currency in a Sentence
currency
noun- The word has not yet won widespread currency.
- Furs were once traded as currency.
- A new currency has been introduced in the foreign exchange market.
- I'm not sure about the accuracy and currency of their information.
- They were paid in U.S. currency.
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Words have currency, in more than one sense of the term.
— Navneet Alang, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2023 -
The job of rebuilding trust in the currency now falls to Erkan.
— Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 June 2023 -
The Israeli currency has tumbled close to 4% in the past 10 days.
— Laura He, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023 -
Sometimes, it was even used as currency in the slave trade.
— Raksha Vasudevan, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 May 2023 -
This is where the trust in the digital currency begins to get tricky.
— Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2024 -
There are ATMs onsite but spare yourself the wait in line and bring the king’s currency with you ahead of time.
— Ashley Mahoney, Axios, 2 Oct. 2024 -
The currency had been hosted at Binance, which handed it to the FBI.
— Michael Laris, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023 -
And yet the yuan still lags as a major global currency.
— Tuugi Chuluun, The Conversation, 1 June 2023 -
The joke took on a life of its own with the creation of flags, passports, and fake currency, and is still talked about today.
— Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2024 -
Like many Greek poleis, the city minted its own currency.
— Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024 -
That search is not the way to find a wallet to store your digital currency.
— Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023 -
The value of the country’s currency, the rial, has plummeted 22 times in the past 10 years.
— Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2024 -
The value of bitcoin ETFs is tethered to the price of their namesake currency.
— Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024 -
Fortnite is free to download and use, but has its own in-game currency which users can buy.
— David Phelan, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024 -
Rodgers was under contract with the Packers, so the Jets had to pay a price in football currency to get him.
— Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2023 -
Inflation is a decline in the measure that is the currency.
— John Tamny, Forbes, 7 May 2023 -
This isn’t to say we’ll never be dethroned as the world’s reserve currency.
— The Enquirer, 10 Jan. 2024 -
Among her clients in the corporate world, where grips and grasps are currency, handshakes once again abound.
— Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2023 -
This isn’t to say we’ll never be dethroned as the world’s reserve currency.
— The Enquirer, 12 June 2024 -
In a business where trust is the coin of the realm, McCarthy holds no currency — and that cost him among Republicans as well.
— Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023 -
Japan is already enjoying a surge in tourist arrivals, due to the weak currency.
— Patrick Frater, Variety, 11 Sep. 2023 -
Since August, the Russian currency has lost a third of its value compared to the U.S. dollar.
— David Axe, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024 -
The prize money was raised by 1 million kronor this year because of the plunging value of the Swedish currency.
— TIME, 2 Oct. 2023 -
On the field, the last-place Angels are selling hope and faith, the currency of another bummer summer.
— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2024 -
Global markets, at least, appeared to take Trump’s latest threats seriously, with the currencies of Canada and Mexico falling against the dollar.
— Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
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