Use dollars in a sentence
Sentences ending with dollars
- Tell me--I'll give you the five dollars. [5]
- I don't believe you men know, half the time, whether a lady wears a nine-penny collar or a thread-lace cape worth a thousand dollars. [6]
- So long as you had a grievance you would talk and talk and talk, and you never were so astonished in your life as when I took that five dollars. [11]
- You say you would almost give your place in heaven for seventy or eighty dollars. [7]
- Them di'monds is worth twelve thousand dollars. [5]
- We don't know who the friend was to whom he offered a quarter interest for the modest sum of two hundred thousand dollars. [5]
- I asked him what they meant by sending that slick Mr. Tooting 'raound to offer me five hundred dollars. [9]
- Sixty prominent "disloyalists" were to be chosen and assessed to make up a sum of ten thousand dollars. [9]
- Beyond that, there were a few gifts to hospitals and for the protection of horses, while to the clergyman of the parish went one thousand dollars. [11]
- The first question was, Who could the citizen have been who gave the stranger the twenty dollars? [5]
Short sentences using dollars
- It cost him twenty-six dollars. [5]
- It was twenty-five thousand dollars. [9]
- I made four thousand dollars. [11]
- One hundred and ten dollars! [4]
- Yes, for eight hundred dollars. [9]
- One hundred dollars for it. [5]
- Twenty dollars a foot! [5]
- No'm, not for fifty dollars. [9]
- Tuition, two hundred dollars. [5]
- Tuition, three hundred dollars. [5]
Sentences containing dollars two or more times
- By this, if you hire yourself at ten dollars a month, from me you will get ten more, making twenty dollars a month for your work. [7]
- But a true word, fresh from the lips of a true man, is worth paying for, at the rate of eight dollars a day, or even of fifty dollars a lecture. [6]
- My understanding is, when a common job is done, or a common enterprise prosecuted, if I put in five dollars to your one, I have a right to take out five dollars to your one. [7]
- If the evidence went as far to establish a guilty profit of one or two hundred thousand dollars, as it does of one or two hundred dollars, the case would, on the question of guilt, bear a far different aspect. [7]
- Er--five dollars a week--five dollars a week. [9]
- Much the best way to work him to supply that thousand dollars is to split it into parts and contribute, say a hundred dollars a year, or fifty, or whatever the sum maybe. [5]
- Mrs. John Grier was to be paid during her life a yearly stipend of twenty thousand dollars from the business; she also received a grant of seventy thousand dollars. [11]
- It was mortgaged to within eight thousand dollars of what it could be sold for but, if he could gain time, that eight thousand dollars would build the mill again. [11]
- He is obliged to be at Pike court where he has a case, with a fee of five hundred dollars, two hundred dollars already paid. [7]
- Suppose he took three hundred dollars of the five thousand dollars: that would leave four thousand seven hundred dollars for his sister. [11]
More example sentences with the word dollars in them
- Then you value your place in heaven very cheap, for I am sure you can, with the offer I make, get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months' work. [7]
- I'm sorry for you, M'sieu' Jean Jacques, and I've come to say that I'm ready to lend you two thousand dollars, if that's any help. [11]
- But so; and yesterday she told me she had only a hundred dollars left. [11]
- Something over two years before, Mr. Goodman and another journeyman printer, had borrowed forty dollars and set out from San Francisco to try their fortunes in the new city of Virginia. [5]
- I thought I would have twelve dollars to, begin life with in America, but the American Consul took two of them for making a certificate that I was shipped on the steamer. [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]
- Jim said he wou'dn't 'a' missed it for three dollars, and I felt the same way. [5]
- Some of 'em's worth twenty dollars apiece--there ain't any, hardly, but's worth six bits or a dollar. [5]
- My page is worth eighty-four dollars to me. [5]
- For I was worth a million dollars, and did not care "whether school kept or not! [5]
- That's the case with your philosopher; and I'm not sure that I won't lose twenty thousand dollars by him yet. [11]
- I opened it with trembling fingers, and poured out, chinking on the table, such a motley collection of coins as was never seen,--Spanish milled dollars, English sovereigns and crowns and shillings, paper issues of the Confederacy, and I know not what else. [9]
- I was delighted with my new property,--but it cost me four dollars to get there, so far was it beyond the Pillars of Hercules of the fashionable quarter. [6]
- When a person with his millions gives a hundred thousand dollars it makes a great noise in the world, but he does not miss it; it's the widow's mite that makes no noise but does the best work. [5]
- After this you will not be frightened by the thought of paying three hundred dollars for a little quarto giving an account of the Virginia Adventurers. [6]
- This vast work will absorb many years, and millions of dollars, in its completion; but it will early yield money, for that desirable epoch will begin as soon as it strikes the first end of the vein. [5]
- She uttered a wild, sad wail, that pierced every heart, and said: "Sivinty-foive dollars for stoofhn' Dan, blister their sowls! [5]
- She uttered a wild, sad wail that pierced every heart, and said, "Sivinty-foive dollars for stooffin' Dan, blister their sowls! [5]
- Those of us who, like Honora, believe in Providence, do not trouble ourselves with mere matters of dollars and cents. [9]
- The furtive smile which had betrayed his content at pocketing the six thousand dollars still lingered at the corners of his mouth. [11]
- Now this one, which cost my uncle ten dollars, thirty years ago, and is one of the sweetest things in Texas, I will let you have for-- "Let me interrupt you," I said. [5]
- Perhaps some time, when we have learned, we will let in a few of you, to look in at the door, fifty dollars a ticket, for some charity. [4]
- Two million dollars went into that experiment, but Manana won. [11]
- And couldn't, very well, perhaps, on a Metaphysical College income of but a few thousand dollars a day, or a week, or whatever it was in those magnificently flourishing times. [5]
- He succeeded pretty well, but the failure of Page, Bacon & Co. relieved him of six thousand dollars, and then, to all intents and purposes, he was a bankrupt in his old age and he resumed service in the pulpit again. [5]
- But she was well fixed--rich, as she would have described it; for she had lived a steady life, and had banked four dollars every month in New Orleans as a provision for her old age. [5]
- Twenty-Five Dollars a week--it looked like bloated luxury--a fortune a sinful and lavish waste of money. [5]
- Confound him, he wearied me with arguments to show that in anything like a fair market he would have fetched twenty-five dollars, sure--a thing which was plainly nonsense, and full or the baldest conceit; I wasn't worth it myself. [5]
- Twenty dollars, Madam--and we wouldn't part with a foot of our 75 for five times the sum. [5]
- The first thing we did on that glad evening that landed us at St. Joseph was to hunt up the stage-office, and pay a hundred and fifty dollars apiece for tickets per overland coach to Carson City, Nevada. [5]
- In Brooklyn, Baltimore, Washington, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago, the play paid me an average of nine hundred dollars a week. [5]
- I thought she was worth a good deal more to me than the ten thousand dollars. [11]
- How proud he was to open his cheque-book before the young Spanish maid, and write in cramped, characteristic hand a cheque for a hundred dollars or so at a time! [11]
- But the plate was so long in coming my way that the fever-heat of beneficence was going down lower and lower--going down at the rate of a hundred dollars a minute. [5]
- He said he was paying me ten dollars a week, and thought it a good round sum. [5]
- An internal-improvement convention was held there since we met, which recommended a loan of several millions of dollars, on the faith of the State, to construct railroads. [7]
- That's why I was going to say to you that in my will I'm going to leave you this business, you to pay my wife every year twenty thousand dollars. [11]
- Every minute it was getting earlier now, and pretty soon some of them watchers would begin to stir, and I might get catched--catched with six thousand dollars in my hands that nobody hadn't hired me to take care of. [5]
- But Janet, who was earning six dollars as a stenographer in the office of the Chippering Mill, regularly gave half of hers. [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]
- But when it was discovered that those lumps were melted half dollars, and hardly melted at that, a painful case of "salting" was apparent, and the undersigned adjourned to the poorhouse again. [5]
- He said he was confident he could compromise for one hundred thousand dollars and recover the elephant. [5]
- As the clock was about to strike eleven he had before him three thousand eight hundred dollars. [11]
- That law trial was a slow business--appeared like they warn't ever going to get started on it; so every now and then I'd borrow two or three dollars off of the judge for him, to keep from getting a cowhiding. [5]
- All that was wanted now was ten thousand dollars in cash to enable him to close the great bargain and make his hundred and fifty thousand. [11]
- Everybody knows I want to be governor, everybody knows I've got twenty thousand dollars in the bank to pay for that privilege. [9]
- What do I want of five hundred dollars! [11]
- She had a very vague idea as to how much twenty thousand dollars was, but she reflected that while they had lived in Rivington Howard must have made many similar sums, of which she was unaware. [9]
- Once she had ventured to enter and ask its price--ten dollars. [9]
- The hat and veil, said Madame, with a simper, were sixty dollars. [9]
- It's not for us to talk about that hundred thousand dollars. [9]
- Arnot wrote Clemens urging him to accept the check for five thousand dollars in this moment of need. [5]
- That scoundrelly young upstart--" "If you want my opinion," I replied, trying to speak slowly, "it is that Mr. Farrar ought to get ten thousand dollars. [9]
- He had set up and printed off two little jobs for farmers in that printing-office--horse bills--and took the money, four dollars. [5]
- Well, he sot up a bank, en say anybody dat put in a dollar would git fo' dollars mo' at de en' er de year. [5]
- And by some untoward association she was reminded of a conversation she had had with Ditmar on the Saturday afternoon following their first Sunday excursion, when, on opening her pay envelope, she had found twenty dollars. [9]
- He did not understand the look in her eyes, until she said: "You have that five thousand dollars! [11]
- So while my uncle was buying Jarvis's hill for three million two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, the other party was buying Bledso's hill for a shade over three million. [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]
- They bought it, type, fixtures, good-will and all, for a thousand dollars, on long time. [5]
- And when the two thousand dollars come, Tom give half of it to me, and never told anybody so, which didn't surprise me, because I knowed him. [5]
- Mr. Curry owned two thirds of it--and he said that he sold it out for twenty-five hundred dollars in cash, and an old plug horse that ate up his market value in hay and barley in seventeen days by the watch. [5]
- Bliss had made two propositions, viz., ten thousand dollars, cash in hand, or a 5-per-cent. [5]
- He gave me two dollars more than the regular price. [11]
- A week or two ago an assay of just such surface developments made returns of seven thousand dollars to the ton. [5]
- You have stolen twenty-five thousand dollars of trust-moneys! [11]
- I haven't got twenty thousand dollars in currency in my pocket. [9]
- All of this twenty thousand dollars had been paid over. [11]
- He lent me twenty dollars on the spot. [11]
- Suppose it should turn out that by the death of somebody in England he is suddenly an earl--income, half a million dollars a year. [5]
- While it is true that with you a good mechanic is allowed about three dollars and a half a year, and with us only about a dollar and seventy-five--" "There--ye're confessing it again, ye're confessing it again! [5]
- Perhaps a little torture would do it, he thought; and so he had made the rather tactless remark about the scarcity of dollars. [11]
- If anybody had told me that it would take me two years to pay back that forty-six dollars to the banker (for I did not expect it of the Prodigal, and was not disappointed), I would have felt injured. [5]
- I have engaged to write for the new literary paper--the "Californian" --same pay I used to receive on the "Golden Era"--one article a week, fifty dollars a month. [5]
- Rawley walked back to the table and laid down two thousand dollars. [11]
- He hung on to the doctrines as well as the dollars of the dads; it was a real thing with him. [8]
- Mrs. Murphy jumped to the conclusion that it would only cost two or three dollars to embalm her dead husband, and so she telegraphed "Yes. [5]
- They levied taxes to the amount of thirty or forty thousand dollars and ordered expenditures to the extent of about a million. [5]
- She belonged, logically, to that world which is disposed to take the law into its own hands, and she was the possessor of five millions of dollars. [9]
- You ought never to take your little brother's "chewing-gum" away from him by main force; it is better to rope him in with the promise of the first two dollars and a half you find floating down the river on a grindstone. [5]
- If you're' willin' to take the risk, you tell 'em ten thousand dollars wouldn't tempt me. [9]
- The stock rose to sixty-five dollars a foot, and at this figure the world-renowned tragedian, McKean Buchanan, bought a commanding interest and prepared to quit the stage once more--he was always doing that. [5]
- Ours have amounted to sixteen thousand dollars and some cents up to this time. [5]
- A member proposed to save three dollars a day to the nation by dispensing with the Chaplain. [5]
- I want you to run it for three years, and take for yourself all the profits over the twenty thousand dollars a year that goes to my wife. [11]
- 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 bill proposes to repeal the existing legislation prohibiting the circulation of bank-notes of a less denomination than five dollars within the District of Columbia, without permitting the issuing of such bills by banks not now legally authorized to issue them. [7]
- They only wanted to raise fifty thousand dollars to carry on the contract--that expended they would have city bonds. [5]
- I am ready to pay you twenty thousand dollars the day that bill becomes a law. [9]
- Persons who want to pay a hundred dollars for a dead cat are getting rarer and rarer every day. [5]
- Well, I stand to lose twenty-five dollars on him. [9]
- Here he was to live, and eat at Miss Crane's table for the consideration of four dollars a week. [9]
- But I've got to have six hundred dollars clear for the travel--railways and things; and I'm having this last run to get it. [11]
- He couldn't seem to get over that seven dollars. [5]
- What you want to do is to go and swear this document in and pay tax on the two hundred and fifty dollars. [5]
- Why ask us to do for nothing what two hundred millions of dollars could not induce you to do? [7]
- Shangois had ridden to camp to fetch him back to Bonaventure for two purposes: to secure the five thousand dollars from Ferrol, and to save Nic's sister from marrying a highwayman. [11]
- When I returned to California by-and-by, I went up to Sacramento and presented a bill for general correspondence at twenty dollars a week. [5]
- I have reason to believe that when the wages of mechanics are raised to eight and ten dollars a day, the workmen will not come at all: they will merely send their cards. [4]
- The sum amounted to a little over twelve thousand dollars. [5]
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