twenty-five cents

Example Sentences

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Go back further and the 1896 Fannie Farmer cookbook sternly informs readers that, “eggs, even at twenty-five cents per dozen, should not be freely used by the strict economist.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2023

What did you expect for twenty-five cents per day plus expenses, the FBI?

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2018

But Lloyd wanted to pattern Cinna on someone he knew: the Greenwich Village poet Maxwell Bodenheim, who used to sit on the stoops around Washington Square, offering to write poems for twenty-five cents.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2015

A ticket for a double feature and a live show cost twenty-five cents; for a quarter, Americans could escape from their problems and lose themselves in another era or world.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

My first job was carrying lunches to the men who worked in the roundhouse, for which I received twenty-five cents a week.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright