tuppence

How To Use tuppence In A Sentence

• Will Crooks, a cooper living in extreme poverty in East London, once spent tuppence on a secondhand Iliad, and was dazzled.
• I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest………
• She's not worth tuppence on it if any kind of a sea kicks up, and it's ripe for a nor'wester any moment now. Chapter 16
• Why it's still going The warm, buttery plots and familiar, approachable cast remind older viewers of the days when they could buy a pint for tuppence ha'penny and still have change for a misjudged June Whitfield cameo. Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis … the television shows that won't die
• We'll be the ones in the snug muttering about when we were lads kids had proper respect for their parents and you could get a yard of ale for tuppence and still have change from a tanner to see George Formby at the Odeon, etc, etc, etc.
• That was probably the case 100 years ago in a linen mill when workers were paid tuppence ha'penny and had no rights.
• I'd better warn you they put every farthing of tuppence on neatness here, so mind you shove everything back when you're done with it. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
• My tuppence worth is that I should like dictionaries to reflect both kinds of use IN THIS CASE - it's handy to know how a word is pronounced in the language from which it is borrowed, in a transparent case of highly specific borrowing such as 'acciaccatura'. Languagehat.com: TRAI(T).
• It's a sort of evil spirit that plays tricks," explained Tuppence who in reality knew very little of the subject, and was not even sure that she had got the word poltergeist right. Partners In Crime
• Unfortunately, none of that matters tuppence.