Example sentences for: pennies

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

  • I'm not against saving a few hundred lives a year for a few pennies extra on my beef, so go ahead and zap my food.

  • The familiar pennies, halfpennies, sixpences, half-crowns, florins, etc., in circulation were replaced by New Pence.

  • As her unauthorized biography, Just Desserts , contends, Martha is an icy, horrible person who abused her (now ex-) husband, ignores her daughter, belittles her mother, sues her gardener for pennies, plagiarizes recipes from better cooks, and humiliates her staff.

  • 42, handing over a $10 bill and two pennies.

  • The pound sterling (the money of the United Kingdom), for example, apparently derived from a pound weight of silver pennies of the Norman period which had a star on them (Old English: steorling `coin with a star').


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