How to Use dollar in a Sentence

dollar

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  • 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.
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The dollar amount and number of earmarks rose by half over this year, according to one count by The New York Times.
    — Byjeffrey Mervis, science.org, 29 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Five dollars felt expensive, when that was about my hourly rate.
    — Erika Veurink, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • But several hours of determined cost-cutting today can yield thousands of dollars in savings over the rest of the year, financial advisers say.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024

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