In spite of his wish to be economical, his dinner bill amounted to a dollar and a half, and now his cash in hand was reduced to two dollars and a half.
When Bayard Taylor visited San Francisco in 1849 he paid the sum of two dollarsto a Mexican porter to carry his trunk from the ship to the Plaza or Portsmouth Square.
In the first case, a bushel of wheat will be represented by one dollar; in the second, by two dollars.
We answered that the local dealers had already fixed the price that fall attwo dollars a barrel.
When filled with mitchella vines, they brought from a dollar and a quarter to two dollars.
They were mostly red foxes, but one was a large "crossed gray," the skin of which brought twenty-two dollars.
Here is a five, a two, a silver dollar, and I think I can make up two dollars in small change.
I would pay it to you if I had it," said Percy; "but you know I have only my allowance of two dollars a week.
I work hard for my money, and I can't afford to lose thirty-two dollars, and it isn't right that I should.
Once he took an agricultural paper for a year at a cost of two dollars, but whenever the paper arrived he groaned in spirit over the cost, and deplored his extravagance in subscribing for it.
The receipts during the first week were ninety-two dollars; the expenses five hundred and twenty-five.
There was one frightfully ugly shawl which had hung fire so long that the master of the shop offered a reward of eight shillings (two dollars) to any one who should sell it at the full price; which was twenty dollars.
And we'll be at two dollarsin another ten days, I tell you.
If you run it up to two dollars--" "It will go there of itself, I tell you.
If you run it up to two dollars it will be that top-heavy that the littlest kick in the world will knock it over.
At length Benjamin Parker determined that he would remove to Northern Indiana, more than a thousand miles away, upon a farm of five hundred acres, that was offered to him at two dollarsand a half an acre.
He is bound to be a poor worker all his life, and why should he deny himself the few comforts he has as he goes along, in order to lay by a hundred or two dollars?
Do you know that this day's holiday once a month, costs you exactly twenty-two dollars a year?
And a dollar saved every week will give the handsome sum of fifty-two dollars a year.
We come nearer to the cause that acts in adjusting the price of apples when we say that they sell at two dollars a barrel because that sum expresses their "final utility.
If apples are offering at two dollars a barrel, why is it that, in a particular local market, one thousand barrels and no more can, at that rate, be sold?
But why is it that, at two dollars, the definite number of one thousand barrels is the amount that is taken and paid for?
At the price of two dollars a barrel it is just worth his while to buy a final barrel of them.
Two dollars spent in adding to his previous stock of other things will do the man in the illustration the same amount of good that he can get from a final barrel of apples, and no more.
The former shall be two dollars, the latter twenty dollars.
First-class budded nut trees cost from one totwo dollars apiece.
There is one thing quite sure and that is that so long as nut trees are selling for from one dollar to two dollars apiece, very few people are going to buy them and plant many of them on these hillsides and experiment with them.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "two dollars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
