How to Use ducat in a Sentence

ducat

noun
  • From friends, or from their company, or maybe the sweet ducats just floated down from the sky.
    Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Ticket Manager Marsh Ryman reports that the football ducat sale is the highest since the start of the war.
    Star Tribune, 24 Oct. 2020
  • And the top winner will receive ducats to all those, plus (by our count) over 40 others in this sweepstakes presented by Chase.
    Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Measuring less than an inch wide, the newfound ducat features a knight standing with a sword and bundle of arrows, photos show.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
  • With fees, prime weekend tickets will go for close to $200 with even the cheapest ducats typically setting audiences back three figures.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2019
  • The decision to dump the paper ducats, said Glen Thornborough, the chief revenue officer on Causeway Street, came after some three years of weighing the pluses and minuses of the digital ticket age.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2019
  • Nearly a century after printing tickets — for season ticket holders and walkup customers alike —, the Original Six Bruins have jumped the digital ducat shark.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2019
  • Shylock, the most infamous moneylender in literature, has just discovered that his daughter has absconded with his ducats to elope with a mercenary Christian.
    Ben Brantley, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Golden ducats, which first came into circulation in Venice, were important in international trade during the early modern era, according to the Royal Dutch Mint.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024

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