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Example sentences for: sixpence

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

Gas cooking had just been introduced to the European houses in the area at the time I hired him, and Sixpence, I was soon to find out, had much to learn about the dangers of gas cylinders.
This was the day on which Sixpence's innocence had come to an end, and Miss Kingsley's sulfurous expertise with the English language had remained indelibly etched in his memory all his life.
One was nonverbal: on seeing his wife off at the railway station, he is reported to have kissed the porter and tipped his wife sixpence.
I stumbled through the dust and the ruins to find Sixpence, dazed but miraculously unscathed, sitting amidst the debris.
Another name for the sixpence was sprat, which probably came from a cross between this word and sprazianna, the Cockney rhyming slang for a sixpence ( tanner ).