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Example sentences for "dollars"

Lexicographically close words:
doling; doll; dollah; dollahs; dollar; dolled; dollers; dollies; dolling; dollop
  1. PS) Rosenberg himself estimated that the values involved would come close to a billion dollars (090-PS).

  2. I think it will be clear one day that millions of dollars and many arms have been pouring into Austria since the spring of 1933.

  3. A kind of institutional sanctity seemed to hedge it round about, so that it spoke with the thunder of authority--and here was the Press quite unable to pay the expressman seven dollars and a half!

  4. It would require only a very few dollars to get him back to New York.

  5. And it might--who knows--have been better in dollars and cents for the Star, if I had not hurried.

  6. The squire immediately fined each of the lawyers five dollars for contempt of court.

  7. Billy Sunday gets thousands of dollars for dragging hell out into the limelight.

  8. It's like this: The government of the United States is willin' to bet one hundred and sixty acres of land against fourteen dollars that ye can't live on it five years without starvin' to death.

  9. When I was first married my salary was thirty dollars a month.

  10. The bank president signed with trembling fingers, got a piece of paper which entitled him to the privilege of entertaining a thousand dollars for six months at his own expense, and withdrew.

  11. They both agreed, and he gave her a hundred dollars in bright, new bills.

  12. Bryan says that a combination of free silver, grape juice, and peace will cure all ills, and he gets five hundred dollars a lecture for saying it.

  13. I believe my mother paid thirty-five dollars for it.

  14. I shall also offer a reward," said the owner of the school, and the next day a bulletin was posted, offering a reward of ten dollars for information leading to the recovery of the timepiece and conviction of the thief.

  15. I shall offer a substantial reward," said Captain Putnam, and one afternoon a notice was posted in the school proper and in the gymnasium, offering one hundred dollars for information leading to the capture of the thief.

  16. I ain't in no hurry to git to hum, an' two dollars ain't picked up every day.

  17. He sent me a check for ten dollars more than I asked for!

  18. But nothing came of the conference, excepting that the owner of the Hall said he would pay all losses and gave Baxter his eleven dollars on the spot.

  19. Last night I went to bed with eleven dollars in my vest-pocket.

  20. But, if you'll remember, when I came to my senses my watch was gone, also my stickpin and eight dollars in bills.

  21. The report of the loss of Andy's valuables was thoroughly circulated around Putnam Hall and Cedarville, and a reward of ten dollars for the return of the things was posted.

  22. But I know I had the eleven dollars when I went to bed, and now it's gone.

  23. Yes, my money is gone--eight dollars in bills!

  24. I am not going to put up three dollars for another fellow's fun.

  25. I was makin' bread with a very heavy dough when Ed come bouncin' in for three dollars more margin.

  26. I think fifty dollars will be ample," said Ballester, still figuring on his paper.

  27. A few dollars which your men had not discovered.

  28. They'll fetch me fifty dollars at the fort, anyhow.

  29. Horses are shod at Fort Laramie at the moderate rate of three dollars a foot; so I tied Hendrick to a beam in the corral, and summoned Roubidou, the blacksmith.

  30. Twenty-five million dollars are, it is said, invested in capital now in the present town, and the value of imports and exports in 1906 was over two millions and over twelve millions, respectively.

  31. Earlier in the day the Comptroller's check for five hundred thousand dollars was received by the Porter family, the Goat Island property had been transferred to the commissioners, and Niagara was free.

  32. The freight of his outfit, including a huge travelling-tent, which could encompass fourteen thousand people, amounted to five thousand dollars between Southampton and Melbourne.

  33. Elated by his success, Percy now made a wager with Robert William Flack of Syracuse, "for a race through the Whirlpools in life-boats for five hundred dollars a side.

  34. He was instructed to offer fifty dollars for the animal; then fifty-five if the first offer failed, with the limit at sixty.

  35. His total pay as a captain of infantry amounted to nearly a thousand dollars a year; and it was as sure as the rising and setting of the sun.

  36. He positively refused to give more than fifty dollars for the horse, after he had seen and examined him.

  37. Many a rich lady would give thousands of dollars for that full rounded arm, and that peach bloom on the cheek, possessed by her kitchen-maid.

  38. The cost of board and lodging (with bed in a bunk) was 150 dollars a week.

  39. Five dollars a day was the hire of that gang, and five dollars bonus for every man, woman, or baby that they killed!

  40. Father says he's going to clean them out for good this time--they've cost us thousands of dollars in the past three years.

  41. Anyway, it was from Thorn, demanding ten thousand dollars in gold.

  42. I'll give fifty dollars bonus to the man that brings him down," she heard him say as she drew near, "and a hundred to the first man to lay eyes on my daughter.

  43. Then we agreed to terms, and the long and short of it is, Mollie, that I'm to have the schooner with a hundred and fifty dollars a month, and ten per cent.

  44. One hundred dollars this time to-morrow night," I repeated.

  45. One hundred dollars this time to-morrow night," I said.

  46. When spring came she had over fifty dollars of her own, with which she promptly bought a cow.

  47. Would a hundred dollars be any good to you?

  48. The Government furnishes oil, and pays ten or fifteen dollars a month for the lighting and tending.

  49. I then searched his pockets, and found four hundred dollars and thirty-seven cents, and a number of papers that I did not take time to examine.

  50. He had a bad case of the wanderlust, so whenever he could scrape a few dollars together, off he would go to some outlandish place.

  51. He told of gold so plentiful that it had no value, of great temples that American Museums were spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to rebuild.

  52. Ben Harris was seen to receive pay for the capture of sixty prisoners, at thirty dollars apiece.

  53. Before the owner of the horse left, he handed the boy two dollars and fifty cents, which was half the amount he had agreed to pay him, and a note to his brother, requesting him to pay the bearer the same sum at the end of the trip.

  54. Here Rod produced the note from Juniper's owner, asking his brother to pay the bearer two dollars and a half upon the safe delivery of the horse.

  55. You see mother has barely fifteen hundred dollars a year from father's life insurance and even that is somewhat lessened by the slump in those old stocks.

  56. Four," ran up the bids in rapid competition until seven dollars were bid for the roll.

  57. Four dollars and thirty cents in two weeks, and four dollars in your first two weeks.

  58. You certainly could collect whatever was comin' to you," Mr. Sniffins assured her, his late supercilious smile replaced by a most obsequious one for this representative of the possessors of the dollars he worshiped.

  59. When the thirty dollars were returned to her in the course of a few days she took it with a chuckle saying: "Huh!

  60. I've got 'most five dollars in my Christmas bank.

  61. Still, more than four dollars had been offered before Miss Pike, in flattering imitation of a large New York department store, offered $4.

  62. They did come rather high; I had to pay ten dollars for the garden set, but I got the lamp for less than five!

  63. Mr. Sniffins meant to have a good many dollars himself some day and the luxuries which dollars stand for.

  64. Four dollars and eighty cents for one afternoon's work, and at least three-eighty of it clear profit, and Mammy has got to share some of it.

  65. Two dollars seven and a half cents a week.

  66. Why just think of it Mumsey, dear, here are fifteen dollars over and above all expenses for the week.

  67. Just then Jean spied Constance and flew toward her leaving the discreet lady to discover just what she had paid seven dollars for.

  68. I didn't think I could get any sort of a place for less than ten dollars a month," was Constance's most unbusinesslike speech.

  69. I will give five dollars bounty for fifty barrels of oil.

  70. Well, he did till the old man offered, twenty dollars bounty for me, for you see he couldn't go to sea without me nohow, and then the old mongrel sold me to get the reward.

  71. You wouldn't fetch more'n fifty dollars in Kentucky, if you be big.

  72. I spent ten million dollars to secure your future, Alaric.

  73. And since my contract with him calls for ten million dollars 'for services rendered,' I'll have to pay.

  74. Slone, I'll give you pick of a hundred mustangs an' a thousand dollars for Wildfire!

  75. And I'd blown in twenty dollars by 9 o'clock a.

  76. He brought sadly needed help with him, consisting of the savings of a year and a half of work--nearly two hundred dollars in money.

  77. But the Colonel would not; said he would not need the capital (in his native magnificent way he called that eighteen dollars Capital) till the eye-water was an accomplished fact.

  78. And I know that we haven't a cent in the world, and we've sent ten thousand dollars a-begging.

  79. What should you say to" [here he dropped his voice to a whisper and looked anxiously around to see that there were no eavesdroppers,] "a thousand dollars an acre!

  80. In the presence of so many millions, Washington could not keep from blushing when he had to confess that he had but eighteen dollars in the world.

  81. Total, fifty five thousand bottles; profit clear of all expenses, twenty thousand dollars at the very lowest calculation.

  82. I am agent of an iron manufacturing company, and they empower me to offer you ten thousand dollars for that land.

  83. Clay's hundred and eighty or ninety, dollars had worked a wonder.

  84. I offered him two dollars and a half, and after a time he agreed.

  85. I will give seven dollars a month-- Sahaya handak kasih tujoh ringgit sa-bulan.

  86. He drew his hand out of his pocket, and showed me the few dollars with which the State inhumanly turns society's outcasts back into the world again.

  87. On the way he bet himself five dollars that Miss Desmond's piano would not be there, and lost; for at the moment he came up it was unloading from the end of the truck which he had seen carrying it past the window of his restaurant.


  88. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dollars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    cash; coinage; currency; gold; lucre; mintage; pelf; purse; scrip; silver; specie; sterling; wherewithal


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dollars each; dollars using the current exchange rate; dollars worth