How to Use rupee in a Sentence

rupee

noun

• The nation’s rupee fell 0.35%, the most in a month, at close.
  — Faseeh Mangi, Fortune, 9 May 2023
• The rupee has plunged more than 40 percent in the last year.
  — Washington Post, 13 July 2019
• India’s rupee gained 0.7% against the dollar on the day of its rate cut.
  — Saumya Vaishampayan, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2017
• Just how did the wheels come off the Sri Lankan rupee and its economy?
  — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 14 July 2022
• Part of that is down to the stocks themselves, and part due to a weakening rupee.
  — Mike Bird, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021
• The Sri Lankan rupee has lost about half of its value against the dollar since March of this year.
  — The Editors, National Review, 12 July 2022
• The Sri Lankan rupee has lost 55% of its value versus the U.S. dollar over the past year.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 20 July 2022
• Charging the battery costs 20 rupees (25 cents), one-fourth of the price of filling a gas tank.
  — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• Paytm stock is now trading at just 487 rupees (around $6) a share.
  — Diksha Madhok, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
• It’s one of my favorite words so far, up there with some good ones like knoll or rupee.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• Amid the turmoil, the Pakistani rupee sank to an all-time low on Thursday.
  — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• The rupee is the worst performer among emerging market peers in Asia this half.
  — Anurag Joshi, Bloomberg.com, 28 Nov. 2019
• Five years ago, the lowest bid came in at 7 rupees, or 11 cents, per kilowatt-hour.
  — Geeta Anand, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• If the gamble works, the central bank will be left to cope with a spurt in inflation and a weak rupee.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2019
• India and Malaysia have agreed to trade in the Indian rupee.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 5 May 2023
• Some analysts believe the worst isn’t over for the rupee.
  — Shefali Anand, WSJ, 19 July 2022
• In fact, not much more than 100 rupees a person is available.
  — The Economist, 2 Sep. 2017
• Subscribers may be easier to come by but the rupees are not.
  — Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 1 July 2024
• Every month, Shamim used to send a few thousand rupees home.
  — Harsh Mander, Quartz India, 28 Apr. 2020
• This is likely to dent the rupee, which recently plunged to its record low of 76.98 a dollar.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2022
• In South Asia, the Indian rupee has also slumped to a record low, down 9% versus the greenback for the year.
  — Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
• The tanking rupee has left importers on the South Asian island unable to pay for goods.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2022
• Meanwhile the Sri Lankan rupee has lost almost half its value against the dollar over the past two years.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 12 May 2022
• The central bank had deployed dollars to soften the rupee’s fall (by 8.5% this year alone).
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2022
• Its currency, the rupee, plunged to a new low against the dollar and pushed the country to the brink of a financial crisis.
  — New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• India’s central bank has had to spend its reserves to contain a plunge in the rupee—which fell as much as 6.9% this year.
  — Julia-Ambra Verlaine, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
• The dollar is more attractive and stable than the euro, the rupee, the yen, or the renminbi.
  — Ro Khanna, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
• The meal comes in at under 150 rupees (under $2) and fills me up enough to resist the overpriced snacks onboard.
  — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2024
• The rupee lost more than a quarter of its value against the dollar in the first eight months of this year, according to FactSet.
  — Matthew Thomas, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
• India bought the Russian missiles using a mix of rubles and Indian rupees, thereby avoiding the U.S. sanctions that could have been used to stop the sale.
  — Agathe Demarais, Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024