How to Use greenback in a Sentence

greenback

noun

• Other macroeconomic trends driving long-term wage growth are labor shortages, and a likelihood that the yen’s weakness against the greenback has peaked, the report noted.
  — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2024
• The last time the greenback was on the skids like this was 2017.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 6 Dec. 2020
• In the past three months, the yuan has lost about 7% of its value against the greenback.
  — Laura He, CNN, 13 May 2022
• The exact cause of the greenback's new-year gains wasn't clear.
  — Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2023
• Last week, the yen surged nearly 5% against the greenback.
  — Laura He, CNN, 5 Aug. 2024
• Indeed, the Hong Kong dollar is just a clone of the greenback.
  — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 28 Dec. 2020
• Those dollars cost more when the greenback strengthens —and as the debt mounts so do the costs.
  — Rafael Nam, NPR, 11 June 2024
• Though the greenback—up around 17% against the euro this year and 26% compared with.
  — Mitchell Martin, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• And given that the dollar has been en fuego for the past decade, the greenback’s drop could very well be swift.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• The buck is flat, but dollar shorts cannot be happy with the greenback's run over the past month.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 30 June 2021
• In the past 18 months, the Europe’s fallen almost 20% against the greenback.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2022
• But a stronger greenback also tends to weigh on gold prices.
  — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 9 July 2019
• A year earlier in 1983, the Hong Kong dollar had been pegged to the greenback.
  — Fortune, 6 Aug. 2019
• The euro is up 9% against the greenback since April as dollar-shorts build up.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2020
• The greenback had soared in 2022 to its highest in around two decades, but slipped a little last year.
  — Rafael Nam, NPR, 11 June 2024
• The loonie weakened against the greenback and Canada’s two-year and 10-year bonds rallied for a fifth straight day.
  — Shelly Hagan, Bloomberg.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• The greenback was little changed after two days of gains.
  — Time, 6 Feb. 2018
• As a result, the value of the yen soared against the dollar, erasing all the gains the greenback had made this entire year.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2024
• The greenback is off 10% since March, a stunning collapse.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2020
• But there are early signs of momentum for a brave new world for the greenback.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2021
• The Hong Kong dollar climbed into the stronger half of its trading band against the greenback for the first time since July.
  — Fortune, 12 Dec. 2019
• That required Beijing to intervene to keep the yuan in line with the dollar as the greenback rose over the past two years.
  — Joe McDonald, The Seattle Times, 7 June 2017
• In theory, a Biden win could reduce the value of the greenback even more.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 6 Oct. 2020
• The greenback is up less than 1% this year against a basket of currencies.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 15 July 2019
• The common currency has weakened about 4% against the greenback over the past 12 months.
  — Katherine Greifeld / Bloomberg, Time, 11 June 2019
• The dollar edged lower as CFTC data showed hedge funds are the most bearish on the greenback in five years.
  — Andreea Papuc, Bloomberg.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• The greenback rose 5% against a basket of peers tracked by The Wall Street Journal in the second quarter, its first gain in more than a year.
  — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 9 July 2018
• The question of how much the United States could use the greenback to pressure China is not a new one, either.
  — Laura He, CNN, 30 Nov. 2020
• Query for Wapo, this author and editors...... ...what color is on the back of a greenback....?...
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2023
• The onshore rate also firmed, up 0.2% versus the greenback.
  — Laura He, CNN, 1 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024