I had money in my pocket--about twenty-five sous--and I was mightily thirsty.
When the woman who receives money for the use of chairs approached him and asked for five sous, "Five sous?
And I am very unhappy because Maman will not permit me to polish door-knobs like you and gain silver for the stamps of five sous.
If it continues we must give Andree no more stamps of five sous.
But little Jean come squeeze my neck and console me, and say he will work and become rich to purchase the stamps of five sous.
Finally, as an extra dish, she had a dozen olives in one of those blue glass trinket-dishes sold for twenty-five sous.
And yet we do not spend more than twenty-five sous a day, for much better food than we should get for three francs in Paris.
And he was weary already; sick at scouring the town, at earning twenty-five sous an hour from ignorant architects, who treated him like a hodman.
He gives me twenty-five sous an hour, and I set his houses straight for him.
This attempt failing, it set about producing a series of pictures of its own called Images de Propagande, to be sold at prices ranging from ten to twenty-five sous.
A rag-picker of the rue Mouffetard whom he had met, I know not where, gave him sittings at five sous an hour; and three-quarters of the time the worthy man invented angelic ruses to avoid being paid.
One month later a quintal of flour at Lyons is worth two hundred francs and a pound of bread forty-five sous.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "five sous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
