How to Use dollar in a Sentence

dollar

noun
  • The dollar dropped sharply against the pound.
  • She put a wrinkled dollar down on the counter.
  • She had to pay hundreds of dollars in auto repairs.
  • The dollar is worth more in Mexico.
  • When was the last time the euro was equal to the dollar?
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2022
  • And 90 plus percent of the pieces start at a dollar, that’s it.
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 2 June 2023
  • At that point,their stash of dollars would buy less gold.
    — Yanis Varoufakis, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The strength of the dollar is also contributing to the boost.
    — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The dollar slipped, losing ground against the euro and yen.
    — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Each of you wanted to be paid a dollar more than the other guy.
    — David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 17 June 2022
  • Today, that would be in the range of $6 trillion dollars.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 17 May 2023
  • Sales are up about 2%, in dollar value, over the last year, Williams said.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The ruble is near a five-year high against the euro and stands at a more-than-two-year high against the dollar.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 18 May 2022
  • Over the course of eight years, the FDA devoted millions of dollars to the effort.
    — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Further adding to gold’s luster is the dulled appeal of the U.S. dollar.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Those movies have grossed them billions of dollars since then.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2023
  • As costs rose, Egypt’s pound plunged, falling from about 16 to the dollar a year ago to almost 30 now.
    — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The strength of the U.S. dollar has also dragged the euro close to parity.
    — New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • That is the exchange rate for the ruble against the dollar as of Friday morning.
    — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 10 June 2022
  • The Emirati dirham is pegged to the US dollar and is among the world’s most stable currencies.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 20 July 2022
  • The lawsuit did not name a dollar figure sought by the plaintiffs.
    — Diana Dasrath, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Rate hikes help boost the value of the dollar, which is near parity with the euro for the first time in two decades.
    — David Goldman, CNN, 3 June 2022
  • Women in the same age group without children earned 97 cents on the man’s dollar.
    — Aaron Gregg and Jacob Bogage, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Women in the same age group without children earned 97 cents on the man’s dollar.
    — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Most will leave behind thousands of dollars, a home or not much at all.
    — Talmon Joseph Smith Karl Russell, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • The vandalism caused thousands of dollars in damage and marked the third time in two years that it had been harmed.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Tech stocks dropped hundreds of billions of dollars in days.
    — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The cost starts at two hundred and forty yen (about a dollar and eighty-two cents) for thirty minutes.
    — Ann Tashi Slater, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Despite earning hundreds of thousands of dollars from the show, Mama June allegedly blew through it all.
    — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2025
  • Final Thoughts The 2025 Motorola Razr captures the essence of the company’s flip phone experience for hundreds of dollars less than competing models.
    — PC Magazine, 18 May 2025

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