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Sentences ending with cents

Now, Colonel, can you picture Jefferson, or Washington or John Adams franking their wardrobes through the mails and adding the facetious idea of making the government responsible for the cargo for the sum of one dollar and five cents? [5]
I said it would cost us millions of dollars, and make all the other strikes we've had here look like fifty cents. [9]
Those of us who, like Honora, believe in Providence, do not trouble ourselves with mere matters of dollars and cents. [9]
And when he was done he handed me the paper, and I saw at a glance that during the year my income, in the way of profits, had been one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars and forty cents. [5]
Thus, to sum up, he bought himself free of a sharp pain in his heart, he bought himself free of the tortures of a waiting conscience, he bought a whole night's sleep--all for twenty-five cents! [5]
There is something uncanny in the passion of a man whose life has been ordered by the inexorable rules of commerce, who has been wont to decide all questions from the standpoint of dollars and cents. [9]
He asked me to retain one of the dollars as security, until he could go to town and --I interrupted: "What, and fetch back nine cents? [5]
The fisherman offered to make his quarter fifty cents. [6]
I am obliged to doubt that the three-dollar Science and Health costs Mrs. Eddy above fifteen cents, or that the six dollar copy costs her above eighty cents. [5]
I estimate "Oahu" to be worth somewhere in the neighborhood of thirty-five cents. [5]

Short sentences using cents

Seven cents a word. [5]
Has nobody got thirteen cents? [6]
A dollar and thirteen cents. [6]
Where's that ten cents? [5]
I buy five cents worth. [4]
Only twenty-five cents! [5]
Admission 50 cents. [5]

Sentences containing cents two or more times

Only fifty cents, they say--only fifty cents most of you miss from your envelopes. [9]
It was $1.20: that is, thirty cents for each individual, or ten cents for each meal and lodging. [4]
For this work, pay one dollar and fifty cents per "thousand" for composition, and one dollar and fifty cents per "token" for press-work, in greenbacks. [5]
Edith made a little calculation that on a flush average of ninety cents a week earned, and allowing so many cents for coal and so many cents for oil, the margin for bread and tea must be small for the month. [4]
With my vocabulary I would make sixty words out of those two hundred and five letters, and get four dollars and twenty cents for it; whereas for your inhuman twenty-four I would get only one dollar and sixty-eight cents. [5]
For two cents I would have done these things, too; but nobody offered me two cents. [5]
When greenbacks had gone down to forty cents on the dollar, the prices regularly charged everybody by printing establishments were one dollar and fifty cents per "thousand" and one dollar and fifty cents per "token," in gold. [5]
After that, we found a jodeler every ten minutes; we gave the first one eight cents, the second one six cents, the third one four, the fourth one a penny, contributed nothing to Nos. [5]
Once, at an earlier date, he recorded that he had figured his personal living expenses down to sixty cents a week, but inasmuch as he was then, by his own confession, unable to earn the sixty cents, this particular economy was wasted. [5]
For example, the American Bible Society offers an edition of the whole Bible as low as fifteen cents and the New Testament at five cents, and the British Society at sixpence and one penny, respectively. [5]

More example sentences with the word cents in them

And so if you've got 51 cents about you, or can borrow it--" "Tell me: who gets this corruption? [5]
Seegars, I bet you--and cost five cents apiece, solid cash. [5]
Values are artificial: you will not be able to get ten cents of the year 1799 for a dime. [6]
In seven hundred years wages will have risen to six times what they are now, here in your region, and farm hands will be allowed 3 cents a day, and mechanics 6. [5]
So I never write 'metropolis' for seven cents, because I can get the same money for 'city. [5]
This we reduced with the blow-pipe, and got about two cents (herewith enclosed) in pure gold. [5]
Thirty years later, when his fame was not much more extended, his pay for the same matter would have been fifteen times as great, that is to say, at the rate of thirty cents per word. [5]
All the seats were sold (in a driving rain storm, 3 days ago,) as reserved seats at 25 cents extra, even those in the second and third tiers--and when the last seat was gone the box office had not been open more than 2 hours. [5]
I am very well satisfied to think the whole population believed in those poor, cheap miracles--a people who want two cents every time they bow to you, and who abuse a woman, are capable of it, I think. [5]
There wasn't any way to collect that ten cents, and he reckon'd the gov'ment would hold him responsible for it and maybe turn him out besides, when they found he hadn't collected it. [5]
A mechanic's average wage was 3 cents a day, when he paid his own keep. [5]
Says I, for two cents I'd leave the blamed country and never come a-near it agin. [5]
So Balum he tuck en give de ten cents to de po', en laid low to see what wuz gwyne to come of it. [5]
Ours have amounted to sixteen thousand dollars and some cents up to this time. [5]
But Tom wanted to resk it; so we slid in there and got three candles, and Tom laid five cents on the table for pay. [5]
All we got to do is to put it up in vials and float around all over the United States and peddle them out at ten cents apiece. [5]
If any one thinks that two cents each is high, let him try to raise them. [4]
They spend freely the ten cents that is not saved without a struggle. [5]
The peddlers and the shopkeepers take such pieces occasionally, and sell them, sometimes for five or ten cents, to young collectors. [6]
He can buy the one for from three to six dollars, and the other for fifteen cents. [5]
So it was that, to her father's dismay and joy in one, she had fled from school, leaving all her things behind her; and had reached home with only the clothes on her back and a few cents in her pocket. [11]
But it proved that our combined resources only amounted to a dollar and seventy-five cents. [9]
Oh, I think that is too high for them; we have never paid over fifty cents a bunch. [5]
And now I suppose you've got to have ten cents, Jerry. [5]
But I who speak to you have been hungry, I know that fifty cents will buy ten loaves of bread, or three pounds of the neck of pork, or six quarts of milk for the babies. [9]
I believe that some time it will be impossible that a woman shall be forced to make shirts at six cents apiece, with the gaunt figures of starvation or a life of shame waiting at the door. [4]
March held that some thing of the catholic character of these relations expressed itself in the generous and tolerant variety of the dinner, which was singularly abundant for fifty cents, without wine. [8]
And it had so happened, a few years before, for the accommodation of some young men of his acquaintance that he had invested rather generously in Grantham mining stock at twenty-five cents a share, and had promptly forgotten the transaction. [9]
The first number should pay--and all subsequent ones--25 cents a number. [5]
Now the Postmaster-General says he cannot give to this company more than two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents per railroad mile of transportation, and twelve and a half per cent. [7]
I figured it right down to European prices,--seventeen cents a day for unskilled labor. [4]
And virtue is rewarded, lavishly, as virtue should be, in dollars and cents, in stocks and bonds, in pearls and diamonds. [9]
They were all returned, except one which gave the history of a rare bit of majolica, which had been picked up forty cents and then sold for five hundred dollars, and was now owned by a collector who had paid four thousand dollars for it. [4]
Do I not remember that glorious moment when the late Mr.---- we won't say who,--editor of the--we won't say what, offered me the sum of fifty cents per double-columned quarto page for shaking my young boughs over his foolscap apron? [6]
You get letter-postage reduced to 2 cents an ounce, then you mail me a 4-ounce letter with a 2-cent stamp on it, and I have to pay the extra freight at this end of the line. [5]
The first one's rate was thirty rupees a month that is to say, twenty-seven cents a day; the rate of the others, Rs. [5]
The Atlantic page probably contained about a thousand words, which would make his price average, say, two cents per word. [5]
He offered a prize of fifteen cents to the one who should first eat the contents of his dish, not using his hands, and hold up the saucer empty in token of his victory. [4]
The impartial John praised the victor in mock heroics, but said that the trial was so even that he would divide the prize, ten cents to one and five to the other--a stroke of justice that greatly increased his popularity. [4]
In sixteen hundred pounds crude cotton four hundred are lint, worth, say, ten cents a pound; and twelve hundred pounds of seed, worth $12 or $13 per ton. [5]
The trial took place in five days, and Carnac was fined twenty-five cents, which was in effect a verdict of not guilty; and so the newspapers said. [11]
And if you pay fifteen cents for registering it, the government will have to take extra care of it and even pay you back its full value if it is lost. [5]
He sent me out in the dead of winter to post bills for miles about, and gave me ten cents for it. [11]
The king got out an old ratty deck of cards after breakfast, and him and the duke played seven-up a while, five cents a game. [5]
For twenty-five cents one can send a dispatch to any part of the Dominion, except the region where the Western Union has still a foothold. [4]
Later in one of his casual moments, he observed that there was no money in fattening a chicken on 65 cents worth of corn and then selling it for 50. [5]
U-n-i-ni United States of America 5 cents. [6]
Nothing grieves me now--nothing troubles me, nothing bothers me or gets my attention--I don't think of anything but the book, and I don't have an hour's unhappiness about anything and don't care two cents whether school keeps or not. [5]
No, that is not what I mean; I mean I know a bad cigar better than anybody else; I judge by the price only; if it costs above 5 cents I know it to be either foreign or half-foreign, and unsmokeable. [5]
We had a national philosophy that measured prosperity in dollars and cents, included in this measurement the profits of liquor dealers who were responsible for most of our idiots. [9]
They put into my hands some of those little things that cost ten cents a box, but they are a delusion. [5]
Made up my mind to take what he offered, if it was only five cents. [9]
This one only means hog 3 cents more. [5]
The man gave me 43 cents change. [5]
Making my own market price, I asked two cents apiece for them. [4]
Tell 'em the mail and express leave three times a week, and it costs from 25 to 50 cents to send letters by the blasted express. [5]
Den I gin 'm ten cents apiece, en dey 'uz mighty well satisfied, en wisht some mo' raf's 'ud come along en make 'm rich agin. [5]
De dream say let Balum inves' de ten cents en he'd make a raise for me. [5]
Give me the least trifle in the world to keep me from starving--anything --twenty-five cents! [5]
The Minghettis are large and comely, and cost three dollars and sixty cents a hundred; I can smoke a hundred in seven days and enjoy every one of them. [5]
I used to know one who came round every morning to sell molasses candy, offering two sticks for a cent apiece; it was worth fifty cents a day to see his cheery face. [4]
I had no Italian money, so I put in a small Swiss coin worth about ten cents. [5]
Mrs. Clemens says it is 60 cents a month. [5]
I think it is nothing but a lot of granite rubbish and nasty glittering mica that isn't worth ten cents an acre! [5]
Along comes an irresponsible urchin, who has not been growing much longer than the tree, with not twenty-five cents worth of clothing on him, and in five minutes takes off every pear, and retires into safe obscurity. [4]
At that time I was scrambling along, earning the family's bread on magazine work at seven cents a word, compound words at single rates, just as it is in the dark present. [5]
You can reckon how many copies at ten cents a copy it will need to make as much as some writers get for a trivial magazine paper. [4]
I then searched his pockets, and found four hundred dollars and thirty-seven cents, and a number of papers that I did not take time to examine. [5]
I called at his house and when no one was looking borrowed a double handful of his very choicest; cigars which cost him forty cents apiece and bore red-and-gold labels in sign of their nobility. [5]
But Tom give him five cents to keep quiet, and said we would all go home and meet next week, and rob somebody and kill some people. [5]
I sole de hide en taller for a dollar en ten cents. [5]
I replied to her that I thought that, in the language of the street, you had compromised your future, if that were true, for about a hundred cents on the dollar. [4]
Fifty cents will help pay the rent of the rat-holes where you live. [9]
For two cents he would have come with us this morning, and let a five thousand dollar commission go. [9]
During this period he received from the United States treasury, for personal services and personal expenses, the aggregate sum of ninety-six thousand and twenty eight dollars, being an average of fourteen dollars and seventy-nine cents per day for every day of the time. [7]
Shortly after I had retired from his presence it occurred to me that he had said nothing to forbid my making a boat, and the first thing I did after school that day was to procure, for twenty-five cents, a second-hand book on boat construction. [9]
Well, when I got home, I did wish to goodness I had that ten cents back again! [5]
But last night got him in the vitals--hit him between the eyes; and his stock's not worth ten cents in the dollar to-day. [11]
Mrs. Mulhaus had got a job of cleaning that day; that would be fifty cents. [4]
For bringing his four valises aboard and stowing them in the nettings, he gave his porter four cents, and lightly apologized for the smallness of the gratuity --just with the condescendingest little royal air in the world. [5]
It cannot compromise for less than one hundred cents on a dollar, and its debts are never outlawed. [5]
Barkeeper buys watermelons for five cents up the river, brings them down and sells them for fifty. [5]
Two hundred and fifty years later--pay attention now--a mechanic's wages will be--mind you, this is law, not guesswork; a mechanic's wages will then be _twenty_ cents a day! [5]
They offered me fifteen cents a word and promised to put my name on the cover in red, so I couldn't very well refuse. [9]
Still, if I felt that I could afford the tax, I would never travel without a courier, for a good courier is a convenience whose value cannot be estimated in dollars and cents. [5]
By way of experiment, I stepped into a little shop in a queer old back street, took four gaily decorated boxes of wax matches and three cigars, and laid down a silver piece worth 48 cents. [5]
Ten blue tickets equalled a red one, and could be exchanged for it; ten red tickets equalled a yellow one; for ten yellow tickets the superintendent gave a very plainly bound Bible (worth forty cents in those easy times) to the pupil. [5]
I'd turn him down for ten cents. [9]
That makes twenty-two dollars and forty cents for Sue. [9]
He received a dollar and sixty cents a day. [4]
Very well, I do not care two cents. [5]
Five cents is dirt cheap for such a pleasure. [4]
An honest laborer digs coal at about seventy cents a day, while the President digs abstractions at about seventy dollars a day. [7]
They are to decide, and they may think what they please; it is a matter of dollars and cents! [7]
I think I could pick up at least twenty or thirty cents a day by that little game, and maintain my family in the affluence it's been accustomed to. [8]
By an astonishing concession in the organization any person can gain admittance by paying the sum of fifty cents. [4]
The only other clergyman who came was from out of town,--a half Universalist, who said he wouldn't give twenty cents for my figure. [4]
They gave us checks for them and charged a fixed price, payable in advance--five cents. [5]
Small bottles fifty cents, large ones a dollar. [5]
What is fifty cents to them? [9]

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