Example sentences for: sixpence

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

  • I stumbled through the dust and the ruins to find Sixpence, dazed but miraculously unscathed, sitting amidst the debris.

  • Sixpence's main claim to fame was that, as a very young lad living in Cameroon, he had been employed by the celebrated Mary Kingsley as a houseboy.

  • 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.

  • His relationship with the renowned traveler had ended in some acrimony after just eight hours, during which time Sixpence had managed to consign the whole of her insect collection (painstakingly accumulated for the British Museum) to the bonfire which he had lit in the compound outside her chalet for the express purpose of burning the rubbish from within it.

  • 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.


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