Example sentences for: coin

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

  • Anyone who has any doubts about the flush nature of the English lexicon and the propensity of its speakers to coin metaphors should attend to these two works (at least), for they deal with only a small segment of culture.

  • Once the design was released, the name bruin was suggested by many people, but the name that appears to be winning is doubloonie, combining the double loonie with a reference to a traditional coin said to be favoured by pirates—again, a not-too-subtle satirical reference to the appetite for taxation of most governments.

  • Mid-market department stores such as Standa and Upim are increasingly more commonplace, while Rinascente and Coin are the most upscale.

  • Florence was the first Italian town to mint its own gold coin (fiorino or florin), a prestigious instrument for trade in European markets, and it organized textile manufacture on an advanced large-scale basis.

  • Shilling , another coin in the predecimal pound sterling may take its name from the Roman coin, solidus , worth about 25 denarii.


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