penny
Example Sentences
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“It makes a man feel prudent like; and then goodbye to happiness. You give me what I ask you, Governor: not a penny more, and not a penny less.”
Home prices are down 17% since the pandemic, according to the Bank for International Settlements, and uncertainty over China’s economic future has many people pinching pennies.
“This is not the moment to pinch pennies,” said Mark K. Harder, an attorney who worked with a Michigan Powerball winner who claimed a $842 million prize.
From MarketWatch
The AA said that, since November, the wholesale cost of petrol has fallen more than 7p per litre but the average petrol pump price had fallen by just two-thirds of a penny.
From BBC
The price of root vegetables has remained firmly planted - with no change to the cost of carrots - and potatoes and parsnips just a penny cheaper than last year.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
