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.
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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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