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

Du Bois, attended lectures by the civil-rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune, and paid twenty-five cents at the Apollo Theatre to hear the likes of Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 10, 2017

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

Then she forced me to work in her bakery every day after school for twenty-five cents an hour.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García