How to Use nickel in a Sentence

nickel

noun
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  • Al-Shaair was a starter who came off the field when the 49ers went to their nickel defense.
    — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Nikko Reed was outside and Cole Martin was a nickel on the drive.
    — oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The margin of error for attaching the skirt is one-tenth of an inch, the width of a nickel.
    — Saumya Gupta, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
  • Elliott played some nickel and more down in the box in past seasons, as well.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Walk-on Christopher Wallace filled in at Husky (nickel) safety the rest of the way.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 4 Sep. 2023
  • There’s also a leather strap and nickel buckle to complete the look.
    — Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 30 June 2023
  • The price of nickel double in March alone — and that means the cost of the stampers used by record plants has also gone way up.
    — Brad Moon, Forbes, 12 June 2022
  • And my sister and I would throw shows in our basement and charge other kids a nickel.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
  • But for us, the chance to add Kelvin as a guy that can play inside and out but has played the nickel and did in the preseason here well.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Get nickel and dimed every few miles on toll roads back East.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • At the heart of the trade-off are Indonesia’s unrivaled stocks of nickel.
    — Peter S. Goodman Ulet Ifansasti, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Hilton is really good in his role as a nickel corner who plays in the slot.
    — Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The country’s sole nickel mine in use is in the Upper Peninsula.
    — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2023
  • One time, a Vietnamese woman and her kid counted nickels on my counter to pay for a bill.
    — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
  • In the electric-vehicle business, the quandary is known as the nickel pickle.
    — Jon Emont, WSJ, 4 June 2023
  • Mitchell will then bump inside on nickel downs and be replaced by Kelee Ringo.
    — NBC News, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Nickelback is a peptide made of 13 amino acids which bonds to two nickel ions.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Kelvin Joseph continues to work at nickel in a chance to jump start his career.
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 5 June 2023
  • As a 13-year-old, and without a driver’s license, Ivan drove an ice cream truck for nickels and dimes.
    — Leslie Wayne, New York Times, 20 May 2024
  • Nik Needham, the nickel cornerback when all are healthy, was lost last week to an Achilles tear.
    — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The most frequent late-summer alignment had Mills and Jonathan Jones on the perimeter with Bryant at nickel.
    — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2022
  • But the software giant has yet to dole out a nickel to them for their troubles — not even a $10 Uber Eats voucher.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 24 July 2024
  • If Williams is at nickel, Bridges could be at deep safety or corner.
    — oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Rookie fifth-round pick DaRon Bland is the nickel in that subpackage.
    — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Each tag, which has enough battery power to last an entire season, is about the size of a nickel.
    — Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2022
  • But Thomas has put in time at corner and nickel during his career.
    — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2023
  • At the business end is a nickel-silver black hook, whose gap is wide enough for sizeable bait and catfish.
    — Pete M. Anderson, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The group was forced to briefly halt trading in nickel following the Trafigura crisis.
    — Byryan Hogg, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023
  • More than pocket change:This nickel just sold for $4.2 million.
    — Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Indonesia, for example, has imposed a ban on the export of raw nickel, a key component in stainless steel and electric vehicle batteries.
    — Kristen Hopewell, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2024

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