Example sentences for: peso

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

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

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

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • In addition to efficiency gains, these flows have helped Mexico recover from its near-death experience in early 1995, when an orgy of import buying led to the collapse of the peso and the flight of investor capital.


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