Example sentences for: peso

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

  • A peso is worth a U.S. dollar, and that promise is made credible by the legal requirement that every peso in circulation be backed by a dollar's worth of foreign exchange reserves.

  • 'Not one single Mexican lost a peso in their bank accounts,' a spokesman for the Finance Ministry said.

  • The concept continues through the Spanish word for `weight': peso (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Philippines, Uruguay); its diminutive: peseta (Spain), and the same word in Portuguese: peso (Guinea-Bissau).

  • (Argentine law now requires that one peso be worth exactly one U.S. dollar, and that every peso in circulation be backed by a dollar in reserves.)

  • Inflation has been eliminated, with the peso securely pegged to the dollar.


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