How to Use currency in a Sentence

currency

noun
  • The word has not yet won widespread currency.
  • Furs were once traded as currency.
  • A new currency has been introduced in the foreign exchange market.
  • I'm not sure about the accuracy and currency of their information.
  • They were paid in U.S. currency.
  • Words have currency, in more than one sense of the term.
    Navneet Alang, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The job of rebuilding trust in the currency now falls to Erkan.
    Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 June 2023
  • The Israeli currency has tumbled close to 4% in the past 10 days.
    Laura He, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Sometimes, it was even used as currency in the slave trade.
    Raksha Vasudevan, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 May 2023
  • This is where the trust in the digital currency begins to get tricky.
    Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2024
  • There are ATMs onsite but spare yourself the wait in line and bring the king’s currency with you ahead of time.
    Ashley Mahoney, Axios, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The currency had been hosted at Binance, which handed it to the FBI.
    Michael Laris, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
  • And yet the yuan still lags as a major global currency.
    Tuugi Chuluun, The Conversation, 1 June 2023
  • The joke took on a life of its own with the creation of flags, passports, and fake currency, and is still talked about today.
    Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Like many Greek poleis, the city minted its own currency.
    Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
  • That search is not the way to find a wallet to store your digital currency.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
  • The value of the country’s currency, the rial, has plummeted 22 times in the past 10 years.
    Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The value of bitcoin ETFs is tethered to the price of their namesake currency.
    Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Fortnite is free to download and use, but has its own in-game currency which users can buy.
    David Phelan, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Rodgers was under contract with the Packers, so the Jets had to pay a price in football currency to get him.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2023
  • Inflation is a decline in the measure that is the currency.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • This isn’t to say we’ll never be dethroned as the world’s reserve currency.
    The Enquirer, 10 Jan. 2024
  • This isn’t to say we’ll never be dethroned as the world’s reserve currency.
    The Enquirer, 12 June 2024
  • In a business where trust is the coin of the realm, McCarthy holds no currency — and that cost him among Republicans as well.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Japan is already enjoying a surge in tourist arrivals, due to the weak currency.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The prize money was raised by 1 million kronor this year because of the plunging value of the Swedish currency.
    TIME, 2 Oct. 2023
  • On the field, the last-place Angels are selling hope and faith, the currency of another bummer summer.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2024
  • But his effigy has yet to appear on the currency of countries that recognize him as the head of state.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 5 May 2023
  • Hood called for 31% to 32% Azure growth at constant currency for the fiscal second quarter.
    Jordan Novet, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Fiscal plans put forward by Truss caused the nation’s currency to plummet in value while bond yields spiked.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024

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