Example sentences for: peso

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

  • But even assuming that the peso holds and that things don't fall apart, there is still a serious lesson in Argentina's current travails--namely, that you can scratch one more supposed economic panacea off your list.

  • Despite creating a pocket of wealth for the region, Mexico itself suffered a number of crises in the 1980s and 1990s, including a drastic devaluation of the peso in 1995 following months of economic chaos.

  • But just before the 1994 peso collapse, real hourly wages stood nearly 30 percent below 1990 levels.

  • They cannot even borrow money for some employment-generating public spending, because fiscal indiscipline would undermine the peso's hard-won credibility.

  • 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).


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