How to Use dollar in a Sentence

dollar

noun
  • The dollar dropped sharply against the pound.
  • She put a wrinkled dollar down on the counter.
  • She had to pay hundreds of dollars in auto repairs.
  • The dollar is worth more in Mexico.
  • Sales are up about 2%, in dollar value, over the last year, Williams said.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Just three years later Pluto TV was a billion dollar business.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The highest-income borrowers would see their payments per dollar fall by about $0.05.
    Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Considering the left first, it will just be said that anything that limits the flow of dollars to Washington is a good thing.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Reaching a certain dollar value from questionable content should trigger the ability to sue Twitter, or any platform, in court.
    Jon Pfeiffer, The Conversation, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The dollar amount customers spent increased by just 1.2 percent year over year, despite the fact that unprecedentedly high inflation lifted the prices of goods by much more.
    Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The Egyptian pound lost almost half of its value over the past year, and last week briefly hit an exchange rate of 32 pounds to the US dollar, the lowest in its history.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
  • And 90 plus percent of the pieces start at a dollar, that’s it.
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 2 June 2023
  • At that point,their stash of dollars would buy less gold.
    Yanis Varoufakis, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Today, that would be in the range of $6 trillion dollars.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 17 May 2023
  • Over the course of eight years, the FDA devoted millions of dollars to the effort.
    Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Those movies have grossed them billions of dollars since then.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2023
  • As costs rose, Egypt’s pound plunged, falling from about 16 to the dollar a year ago to almost 30 now.
    Vivian Yee, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Women in the same age group without children earned 97 cents on the man’s dollar.
    Aaron Gregg and Jacob Bogage, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Most will leave behind thousands of dollars, a home or not much at all.
    Talmon Joseph Smith Karl Russell, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • The vandalism caused thousands of dollars in damage and marked the third time in two years that it had been harmed.
    Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Veselka has raised over half a million dollars for the war effort in Ukraine.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The best surf fishing reels and rods can cost hundreds of dollars and even then, can still succumb to sand and salt in no time.
    Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 30 May 2024
  • Make sure to sign a dollar bill and leave it on the wall to commemorate your visit.
    Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The end of this leg of the U.S. tour is also a drag for local economies, which saw boosts of tens of millions of dollars each time the Eras Tour set up shop.
    Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The racers each pay 3,150 Canadian dollars for entrance and come from all over the world.
    Max Ufberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
  • Maybe Peter Seidler can spread more millions of dollars over the plate.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2023
  • The grammar police in me have to point out: Billions of dollars are going.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Two Maryland men have been found guilty of a scheme to defraud Apple of millions of dollars.
    Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The new spend builds on millions of dollars already committed to these states.
    Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Prolonged, intense heat dries out soil and can lead to drought and billions of dollars in costs due to crop losses.
    Ella Nilsen, CNN, 10 June 2024

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