Example sentences for: greenbacks

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

  • These notes, cool and considered, may make more practical sense than our greenbacks, with their wacky eye on the pyramid swiped from Masonic lore and the Model T-era automobile that still putts along in front of the Treasury building.

  • The Treasury Department launched the first of $40 billion worth of redesigned $20 greenbacks yesterday.

  • Thirty-year interest rates are back down near 6 percent, after trading close to 6.5 percent, and they would not be there if bond traders--for whom vigilance about inflation is a cardinal law--thought the Fed was letting us all live high on the hog by printing lots of greenbacks.

  • During the war, the U.S. government had issued its first paper money, or "greenbacks" (previously, only private banks had issued paper notes), and one-third to one-half of all paper currency in circulation was believed to be "queer."


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