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
Movies offered a way for Americans to think of better times, and people were willing to pay twenty-five cents for a chance to escape, at least for a few hours.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Moving several hundred thousand units of a product sounds impressive, but when the retail price is twenty-five cents the revenue is not so impressive.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 29, 2014
“The other was two box tops from corn flakes. They send you twenty-five cents if you mail them two box tops with stars on the tops. For milk money, it said.”
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
