Example sentences for: coin

How can you use “coin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The coin nearby was found between the skull’s teeth and thought to be the dead man’s fare for the ferryboat across the River Styx to the underworld.

  • Tradition dictates a toss of a coin over your shoulder to ensure a return trip.

  • Quid, dating from the 17th century and shown as of obsure origin in the Oxford English Dictionary , means a pound, originally a note, now a coin.

  • The relatively large number of complete cycles in the data, however, yield very reliable information about the periodicity; and if there is more than one rhythm, the two periods can more likely be resolved by Fourier-based spectral analysis in the same manner that two wavelengths of light can be resolved into separate lines in a spectroscope [ 60 ] . The relationship between the number of cycles present in the data record and resolution is mathematically equivalent to the gain in spectral resolution with the increase in distance between mirrors in an interferometer [ 60 ] . On the other side of the coin, if a very short series is transformed, information about local conditions in the time domain becomes more precise at the expense of resolution in the frequency domain [the information in the time domain is more precise; but the resolution in the frequency domain is greatly reduced [ 38 ] .

  • At the south end of Wangfujing (one block west, on Dongdan Street), near an open-air stamp and coin market, is the Capital Hospital (Xiehe Yiyuan), which has an emergency clinic for foreigners.


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