How to Use rupee in a Sentence

rupee

noun
Definition of rupeenext
  • 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 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
  • The Sri Lankan rupee plummeted to a record low, driving inflation to 70%.
    — Vidhura S. Tennekoon, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2024
  • 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

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