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
  • Today, that would be in the range of $6 trillion dollars.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 17 May 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
  • 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
  • Veselka has raised over half a million dollars for the war effort in Ukraine.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Maybe Peter Seidler can spread more millions of dollars over the plate.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2023
  • 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
  • The bank run that destroyed both coins cost crypto investors tens of billions of dollars.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 19 June 2023
  • Moore likely made eighteen dollars a month as a waiter, and spent seven on rent.
    — Ismail Ibrahim, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Select Beautyrest beds are on sale for hundreds of dollars off for the brand's Black Friday savings event.
    — Sara Coughlin, SELF, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The White House and Congress have pumped out billions of dollars to fix and improve the nation’s roads, ports, pipelines and internet.
    — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Of course, Pigcasso, whose paintings sell for thousands of dollars to buyers all over the world, wasn’t born with a silver brush in her mouth.
    — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2023
  • The doll was very quickly discontinued (more on that in a sec) and now, pregnant Midge sell for hundreds of dollars online.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 21 July 2023
  • Her opponent has millions of dollars and has spent millions of dollars on this race.
    — Leah Askarinam, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2023
  • These contests, which can pay out thousands of dollars, are one of the forums’ more peculiar aspects.
    — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The sale brought in more than fifteen million dollars, nearly quadruple the high estimate.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Rebuilding: The bridge, built in the 1970s, will probably take years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild, experts said.
    — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The lesson: Don’t give billions of dollars to people who fund terrorism.
    — WSJ, 13 Nov. 2023
  • No one knows how much rats cost people worldwide each year, but the total is likely in the hundreds of millions of dollars—and possibly much more.
    — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Some agreements have already been made for an option to purchase by some of these, uh, 30 license holders, and these could sell for millions of dollars.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2023

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