pennies
Example Sentences
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Stock your employer put in 25 years ago may have cost pennies against today’s price.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
"There are so many people struggling to get by. Some months, we are really scraping the pennies and it can be difficult."
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
The other explanation is it’s a cash grab made for pennies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Clarke’s team has spent the last two years sweating grams, watts, millimeters and pennies from every component, system or process, over and over.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
Two spools of thread, one white chess bishop, and six parts of a jigsaw puzzle...A teaspoon and a closed box of safety matches...A radish, two pennies, a nickel, and a golf ball.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
