Example sentences for: coin

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

  • Around six years ago, not long after Canada replaced its green Queen's one-dollar note with an eleven-sided gold-coloured coin, a schoolyard ditty made the rounds:

  • 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.

  • The name of the small silver threepenny coin, known as the threepenny joey or just joey, had the origin in another small coin, a fourpenny piece or groat.

  • The Mint, as usual, is no help—they refer to the new coin unimaginatively as the two-dollar coin, so the letters columns of every newspaper in the country have been filled with speculation and suggestions for a slang term for this new coin, which is slightly larger than the loonie, gold-coloured and polygonal (like the loonie), but with a silver centre with a polar bear pictured on it.

  • In other words, Jimmy Carter's commission was half right, which is about par for the course when it comes to predicting the future (to test this proposition, flip a coin several times).


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