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Example sentences for "dollar and"

  • If I charge you a dollar and forty a bushel for that wheat, it will come to that sum exactly.

  • Good enough," declared Gretry, "good enough so that it broke the price down to a dollar and twenty.

  • The May option closed this morning at a dollar and an eighth.

  • I'll let you have six hundred thousand of it at a dollar and a half a bushel.

  • Wheat is worth a dollar and a half to-day, and not one cent more.

  • I secured a position there, at a dollar and a quarter a day, to shovel mud.

  • What excellent training I got when I rubbed the engine for a dollar and a half a day.

  • The best seats were priced at a dollar and a half, and Mrs. Hamilton had given Conrad three dollars to purchase one for Ben and one for himself.

  • It seems an awful price to pay a dollar and a half for a seat," said Conrad.

  • Good-sized roots of the Delphinium formosum, lovely dark blue, are a dollar and twenty-five cents a dozen.

  • The roots of these can be bought for a dollar and a half a dozen, or they can be raised from seed; in the latter case, however, they would not bloom until the second year, being perennials.

  • German Iris, a dollar a dozen, and Japanese Iris, at a dollar and a quarter a dozen, should also have a place.

  • The price of boarding at these houses is from a dollar and a half to two dollars per day.

  • A backwoodsman had just offered to take her for a dollar and a half a week, when Mrs. Quick firmly bid a dollar and a quarter.

  • In asking the price, I was agreeably surprised to hear a dollar and a half named, being about one sixth of what I used to pay for its fellows in England; but on opening the grim pages, it was long before I could again call them cheap.

  • I paid a dollar and a half for the duke and a half for the princess.

  • It was not worth more than a dollar, or possibly a dollar and half, before the captive students began their work on it.

  • If you stay a week, you give him five marks--a dollar and a quarter, or about eighteen cents a day.

  • I am sure I am willing to work; but last week I only earned a dollar and a quarter, and I don't feel sure of even doing that.

  • That would only be a dollar and a half a week," he said, looking very much disappointed.

  • Last week she made a dollar and a quarter.

  • I could see he was surprised at the fact that I knew Iowa land was selling at a dollar and a quarter an acre.

  • In return you are to shoulder all the grief and worry of the road and give me a ten-year contract at a dollar and a half per thousand feet, to haul my logs down to tidewater with your own.

  • Come through with a dollar and a half, John.

  • While other people pay their domestics a dollar and a half and two dollars a week, I give but a dollar and a quarter each to my cook and chambermaid, and require the chamber maid to help the washer-woman on Mondays.

  • Our parlor carpets cost but ninety cents a yard, and were handsomer than those for which a lady of our acquaintance paid a dollar and thirty-eight.

  • With a hundred men employed at a dollar and a half a day, the saving of a single hour meant the saving of a good many dollars.

  • She bought for him a pair of three dollar shoes for a dollar and a half at this same "Sold Out" sale, a dollar's worth of stockings and about a dollar's worth of underclothes.

  • She saw them and after a good deal of talk they agreed, so I told Ruth to tell them to save out of next Saturday night's pay a dollar and a half apiece.

  • And a dollar and a half a day was nine dollars a week!

  • I've made a dollar and a quarter this mornin'.

  • We'll pay a dollar and a half a share for all you can get, to-morrow.

  • Our offer stands--a dollar a share to-day, a dollar and a half to-morrow.

  • Scorpion stock will close at a dollar and a half or better to-morrow night.

  • Though dhurra was so expensive, the prices of sheep and cattle were unusually low,--a good ox or cow could be purchased for a dollar and a half or two dollars, and a calf for half a dollar.

  • At times, a sovereign valued even as little as a dollar and a half.

  • The price of a camel rose to fifteen hundred dollars, a chicken might be had for thirty or forty dollars, and an egg for a dollar to a dollar and a half.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    again came; biblical interpretation; dollar bill; dollar figure; dollar gold; dollar note; dollars each; dollars using the current exchange rate; dollars worth; each girl; give expression; here called; highly probable; ordinary seamen; people said; rough water; said the young fellow; simple explanation; slight sigh; special sense; the second; thoroughly cooked; where busy all the; wild geese; wounded spirit; writing about