nickels

Example Sentences

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The chain bundled food with items like character buttons, wooden nickels, hand puppets and drinking glasses.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

“I would argue it’s like picking up nickels in front of a bulldozer,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

“We have to do a better job to find those pennies out there—those pennies, nickels and dimes to save and not turn the lights on until you need to,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

He also thinks the government savings from not producing pennies will be offset by the need for more nickels, which are worth five cents but cost nearly 14 cents to make.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025

She put all the nickels in Fern’s hand and pinched her cheek faster than I could do anything about it and was gone, as big as she was.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia