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.
  • Could it be used to blackmail Tanya for part of her half-a-billion dollar fortune?
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The final dollar amounts will be included in a report that the task force will release next year.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The goal was to secure billions of dollars in lucrative contracts and finance.
    Tara Suter, The Hill, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The agency also backed and guaranteed tens of billions of dollars in loans to small businesses.
    Christopher R. Marsicano, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The dollar slipped in value against major rivals on foreign-exchange markets.
    Craig Torres, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2022
  • With demand for iron ore exploding in China, Forrest saw dollar signs on the subpar land where competitors saw headaches.
    Evan Halper, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Debt-relief efforts are stalling as developing economies are being hit by higher interest rates, a strong dollar and slowing global growth.
    Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2022
  • The time has come to toss those scratchy dollar store sheets — and replace them with a set from Cultiver, which is offering up to 60 percent off its beloved linen sheets.
    Anamaria Glavan, Allure, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Trump has also promised more tax cuts and deficit spending, which could add trillions of dollars to the national debt, forcing the government to borrow more money from bondholders.
    Bryan Mena, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The exact amount the companies have earned since then is omitted from the lawsuit; attorneys have blacked out dollar values from legal documents at the request of the defendant corporations.
    Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • The strength of the dollar is also contributing to the boost.
    Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The dollar slipped, losing ground against the euro and yen.
    Joe Wallace, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Today, that would be in the range of $6 trillion dollars.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 17 May 2023
  • Sales are up about 2%, in dollar value, over the last year, Williams said.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 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
  • The lawsuit did not name a dollar figure sought by the plaintiffs.
    Diana Dasrath, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • The cost starts at two hundred and forty yen (about a dollar and eighty-two cents) for thirty minutes.
    Ann Tashi Slater, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • 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

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