Example sentences for: yen

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

  • The piece says U.S. currency is up against most European currencies and down against the yen, and that both developments are good news for the U.S: "For the Clinton administration, led by Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, a slumping mark is much less worrisome than a slumping yen would have been, several economists said Monday."

  • 4. President Clinton feels good about working with Republicans on the budget bill, and encourages you to make up some kind of sophomoric joke about his yen for Megawati Sukarnoputri and Tonya Harding.

  • There's no denying the short-term macroeconomic picture for Japan is dismal, though it's hard to resist the thought that if the Bank of Japan just ran its printing presses and dumped piles of yen out onto the street, things would be OK.

  • I was just reading this fascinating and well-written article ("Flame Posies," July 3) about the New York Times and the Washington Post and admiring the balls of a publication that ran the headline "Who gives a f*** about the yen?"

  • Do we really need to see this "clever" use of "yen" in a headline ever, ever again?


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