benny

Example Sentences

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There’s a place called Sweet Butter down on Ventura Boulevard, and they do a real nice eggs benny.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2025

"I can get along without the benny," reflected the Kid, "because I'm naturally warm-blooded, but take away my old white kettle and I'm a soldier gone to war without his gun."

From Old Man Curry Race Track Stories by Van Loan, Charles E. (Charles Emmett)

But look you, niece Magdalen, I 'ave got five tousand pounds: if you marry him I vill not give you a benny.

From The Fatal Boots by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Say, near as I kin tell by feelin' it, dat ain't such a bum benny you're sportin'.

From The Life of the Party by Preston, James M.

Ven I was ruint in the United States I game back to England, and I hat not one benny.

From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie