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US
/ˈpɛni/
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[ UK /pˈɛni/ ]
[ UK /pˈɛni/ ]
NOUN
- a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
- a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound
How To Use penny In A Sentence
- The mighty Dragon sneers at the prudent and penny-pinching.
- All of them, appropriately for a bank, contributed their pennyworth.
- After filling an entire grocery cart, I sent Penny back for a second.
- The Christmas penny jar will buy more food and drink than we could possibly consume over the holiday and there aren't any goodies I truly fancy finding in my stocking.
- Folks may crow all they want about the roar of Niagara or the growlin’ of the sea—but give me a splendacious peal o’ stormbrewed thunder and your other nat’ral music is no more than a penny whistle is to a church organ! Nevermore
- A reed basket of ha'penny nails to go with it lay in the jumble of objects at the far end of the table; something perhaps left behind by the carpenters who had furnished the room. Sick Cycle Carousel
- Create the penny by cutting two large circles from poster-size sheets of copper-colored crafts paper.
- With its two commons, Steeple Fritton was shaped much like a penny-farthing bicycle, Posy had decided in childhood. TICKLED PINK
- Honesty may be dear bought; but can never be an ill pennyworth.
- No one ever heard her allude again to her “fourpenny foreigner.” On Forsyte 'Change