pound sign
Example Sentences
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After his unexpected shift into the macabre, when he "saw something terrible, I saw pound signs".
From BBC
The partner of a man killed in a fish farm accident said a pound sign could not be put on a life after his employer was fined more than £800,000.
From BBC
In the distance: a brick castle labeled “FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE,” decorated with a hypnotic swirl of dollar, euro and pound signs.
From New York Times
Those patients expecting surgery may be shocked by how the current system could encourage those who treat them to see pound signs rather than patients.
From The Guardian
In 2007, not long after Twitter launched, an early adopter named Chris Messina came up with the idea of retrofitting pound signs into an ad-hoc system for sorting through the platform’s rising volume of tweets.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
