twenty-five cents
Example Sentences
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Go back further and the 1896 Fannie Farmer cookbook sternly informs readers that, “eggs, even at twenty-five cents per dozen, should not be freely used by the strict economist.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2023
What did you expect for twenty-five cents per day plus expenses, the FBI?
From Slate • Oct. 31, 2018
The carriage, carved from teak by local craftsmen, was financed with individual donations of twenty-five cents per person, to permit rich and poor alike to share in the veneration of their monarch.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 24, 2016
A ticket for a double feature and a live show cost twenty-five cents; for a quarter, Americans could escape from their problems and lose themselves in another era or world.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
One day he needed twenty-five cents to buy his lunch.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
