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Example sentences for "ninepenny"

Lexicographically close words:
nimo; nincompoop; nine; ninefold; ninepence; ninepin; ninepins; niner; niners; nines
  1. The ninepenny of South Australia, doffing its modest hue for a bright orange, hand-stamped with black, is worth a penny more than heretofore.

  2. You can't expect to get much for the contents of a ninepenny puzzle, not even the price of a cab fare, Pugh.

  3. Does it seem reasonable that we should find a diamond, which, if it is a diamond, is the finest stone I ever saw and handled, in a ninepenny puzzle?

  4. Something tells me, perhaps it is the unusually strong vein of common sense which I possess, that the contents of your ninepenny puzzle will be found to be a magnificent do--an ingenious practical joke, my friend.

  5. I heard the clink of approaching glasses--the ninepenny creams.

  6. Thinking it would make no difference to such a gorgeous young sybarite as Marden, I took the liberty of ordering ninepenny creams this time.

  7. The parish priest who came in his place was a little pot-bellied man with white shiny false teeth, who smoked ninepenny cigars and who always travelled first-class in a railway train.


  8. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ninepenny" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.