How to Use lira in a Sentence

lira

noun
Definition of liranext
  • The lira has shed 90% of its value over the past decade.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 30 May 2023
  • In that time, the value of the Turkish lira crashed 170% to a record low against the US dollar.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 22 June 2023
  • The lira has fallen 29% against the U.S. dollar this year.
    — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The British pound, Turkish lira and Brazilian real, to name a few.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The lira shed nearly half its value against the dollar in 2021.
    — Robert Hart, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The lira, the value of which is managed by the central bank, was little changed against the dollar.
    — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The Turkish currency, the lira, has lost more than 60% of its value against the U.S. dollar in the last six months.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The lira, which has lost around a third of its value against the dollar this year, fell to another new low.
    — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2020
  • Since winning the election, the lira has been in free fall, plummeting by more than 15%.
    — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 June 2023
  • On Thursday, for the fourth month in a row, the central bank cut interest rates — sending the lira to a record low against the dollar.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The volatile lira is the worst performing currency in the world, falling 45% this year.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Euro, peso, even an old lira—we’ll find a way to convert it!
    — Katie Barsotti, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The lira, which had surged back to life after losing half of its dollar value in under four years, is back on the ropes.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Savings have vanished as the lira has lost more than 40 percent of its value this year.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The Turkish lira, the value of which is tightly managed by the central bank, was stable against the dollar.
    — Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The Turkish lira plunged against the dollar Monday, though stocks rallied.
    — Suzan Fraser and Zeynep Bilginsoy, ajc, 29 May 2023
  • But the lira weakened further after Thursday’s rate hike news, dropping more than 2% to a new record low of 24 to the US dollar.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 22 June 2023
  • The crisis wiped more than half the value off the lira and pushed millions of Turkish people closer to poverty.
    — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The central bank has used foreign reserves to prop up the lira; in the past week those reserves plunged into the negative for the first time, Demiralp said.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
  • The Lebanese lira, now one-tenth of its value just two years ago, seems as worthless as Monopoly money.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The Turkish lira hit a record low against the dollar on Thursday after the Central Bank cut a key rate by one percentage point.
    — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2021
  • That’s sent the lira into a tailspin and accelerated the surge in consumer prices.
    — Time, 3 Feb. 2022
  • As the lira has sunk, people have watched their salaries lose purchasing power and the value of their savings evaporate.
    — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2022
  • However, the Turkish lira has continued to fall against the dollar.
    — Kelly Kasulis Cho and Victoria Bisset, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The value of the lira plummeted, inflation soared, and the Lebanese thawra (revolution) stalled before it was halted by the advent of Covid.
    — Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books, 27 July 2023
  • The weighted-average cost of funding has increased more than 6 percentage points since mid-July, yet the policies have not halted a slump in the lira to record lows.
    — Taylan Bilgic, Bloomberg.com, 31 Oct. 2020
  • But as its coffers run lower and lower, resorting to this tactic to boost the lira becomes more and more difficult.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 30 May 2023
  • The Turkish lira plunged by as much as 15% against the dollar in early trading on March 22nd, before recovering some of its losses.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Finally, amid high inflation, the surge in crude oil prices deeply affects Turkey's already weak lira.
    — Carmela Chirinos, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2022
  • There was a business card for the local Quick Cuts and Turkish lira bills in preposterous denominations—ten million, twenty million—from the time before the government slashed six zeros from the currency.
    — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023

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