farthing
Example Sentences
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I’m sure you’ve all missed ’em: The ha’penny, farthing and shilling.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2020
Someone wheels a penny farthing through a town square.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2019
You all are free to put your votes, hearts and contributions wherever you like and we care neither a farthing nor a fig.
From Fox News ● Aug. 19, 2019
Flamboyant and self-promoting, he was well known in the art world, the expatriate American living in London who had sued the art critic John Ruskin for libel and won a farthing.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2014
Another mole the size of a farthing on her thigh and something purplish on her calf—a strawberry mark, a scar.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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