How to Use two cents in a Sentence

two cents

noun
  • My first allowance — this was in the 1950s — was two cents per week.
    Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 20 June 2019
  • That's down by two cents from Wednesday and four cents from the record high of $4.33.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Some are asking for my two cents on the Green New Deal.
    Scott Waldman, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Some celebs are even adding their own two cents into the feud.
    Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 15 May 2019
  • Plus, manager Bud Black chips in his two cents on Diehl at the end of the show.
    Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 11 June 2019
  • Allow Williams, who now has a better grasp of the group, to give his two cents.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 28 May 2023
  • Each penny, which is worth one cent, costs two cents to make.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2020
  • Union shared the clip on Twitter, and backed Henson up with her own two cents.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 21 Dec. 2023
  • There’s been a lot of bulls--- said over the years, by people who weren’t there, but wanted to put their two cents in.
    George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • North then crawls over both her mom and dad before pulling up her own stool to give her two cents.
    Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 5 Feb. 2020
  • My two cents: The Ducks really have a shot for Tuimoloau.
    oregonlive, 6 Feb. 2021
  • Then my brother’s wife came charging in with her two cents, too.
    Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2022
  • This week, Naomi Campbell put in her own two cents on the matter.
    Andrea Park, Teen Vogue, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Fans of The Voice coach wasted no time giving their two cents in the comments section.
    Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2020
  • My two cents is that the connection is foundational, and the tools come on top of that.
    Mark Roberts, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Many of Kanye's fans came to his comment section to offer their two cents on the new hairstyle.
    Sara Miranda, Allure, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The national average is up by two cents over the past week.
    Krystal Hur, CNN, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Trippier and Ashley Young stand over it, and now Maguire comes over with his two cents.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 July 2018
  • Spurs forward Rudy Gay gave his two cents worth after the win on Sunday.
    Cody McCrary, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Apr. 2018
  • My two cents: Move the fence in front of the batter's eye in center in 10 feet and shorten the wall above the out-of-town scoreboard in the gap in right-center.
    Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Here, some of our favorite designers give their two cents on when its okay to go bare.
    Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Emmett went into the store to buy a small item, most likely two cents’ worth of bubble gum.
    Margalit Fox, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Of course, Houston couldn't let this moment pass by without putting in our two cents.
    Shelby Stewart, Chron, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Here are her two cents on the topic, as well as her advice for the types of hair and styles best suited for thinning shears.
    Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Nick Chubb put in his two cents to keep Kareem Hunt here after this season.
    cleveland, 27 July 2022
  • Weezy himself finally stepped in and shared his own two cents on the matter.
    Heran Mamo, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Which, of course, is not stopping anyone else from putting their two cents in right at this very moment.
    Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2020
  • At best, this is Palmer adding her two cents to the canon of unbreakable ground rules for how women in R&B want to be treated.
    Pitchfork, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Kelly, meanwhile, had dialed Christi in to give her two cents.
    Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 2 May 2024
  • So people were really looking forward to being able to kind of give me their two cents.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 20 June 2024

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