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penny

[ US /ˈpɛni/ ]
[ UK /pˈɛni/ ]
NOUN
  1. a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
  2. 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
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