How to Use dollar in a Sentence

dollar

noun
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Buying in bulk and using store coupons can also stretch your dollar a bit further.
    Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The grammar police in me have to point out: Billions of dollars are going.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • By contrast, OpenAI is thought to be burning through billions of dollars.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The dollar amount that households receive will vary significantly and depend on your pay, filing status, and the size of your family.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The bottom line: The payments weren't very high in this case, a few hundred thousand dollars between various entities.
    Brady Dale, Axios, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Flooding and wind gusts also caused billions of dollars worth of property damage across the Southeast, including in Asheville.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Some beauty products earn their icon status with celebrity endorsements and multi-million dollar campaigns, others quietly become cult favorites by word of mouth.
    Claire Sullivan, WWD, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Society gains an average of $10.80 per dollar invested.
    Garrett Moore, Arkansas Online, 21 Jan. 2023
  • But these masks can be pricey, costing anywhere from $100 to thousands of dollars, and similar but stronger treatments are available at spas and dermatologists’ offices.
    Erica Sweeney, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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