coppers
Example Sentences
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Mette, who has been with the department for 18 years, told "young coppers" they have a "long way to go."
From Fox News • Oct. 21, 2021
“You want to say ‘I know all these coppers, I know all these things?’
From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2020
“You want to say `I know all these coppers, I know all these things?’
From Washington Times • Oct. 13, 2020
It conjures up the image of people throwing their smartphones, rather than coppers, into a fountain for good luck - although Downing Street has backed away from a plan to scrap copper coins.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2018
And when they came, he ate them down greedily, pushing them into his mouth with his bamboo chopsticks, while the boy stood and spun the coppers between his black thumb and forefinger.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
