How to Use legal tender in a Sentence

legal tender

noun

• Soon after France adopted the euro, the French franc ceased to be legal tender.
• Some of the bills were too damaged to count as legal tender.
  — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 2 Oct. 2019
• The country is the world’s first to make bitcoin legal tender.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 7 Sep. 2021
• In the middle of the night of June 8, El Salvador passed a law that made Bitcoin legal tender.
  — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 20 Aug. 2021
• As in, since 1792, when Congress made the US dollar legal tender.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 2 Oct. 2022
• On June 8, El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 9 June 2021
• In a matter of just a few days El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.
  — Diana Barrero Zalles, Forbes, 16 June 2021
• Forced by law to recognize the coins as legal tender, the Fed would add $2 trillion to the Treasury's account.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2020
• Acts are each recorded on kindness tickets that are legal tender on the Read ’n’ Roll.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2020
• But in George Washington’s time, it was used as legal tender.
  — David Downs, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2017
• The court said the old banknotes should continue to be legal tender, alongside new versions, until the end of this year.
  — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
• Gold Rounds Gold rounds are similar to gold bullion coins but are not legal tender and do not have a face value.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Apr. 2023
• Their deposits swelled as people returned the 86% of the currency that was no longer legal tender.
  — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
• In the final days of the legislative session, the Alaska House passed a bill that would allow gold and silver to be used as legal tender.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 2023
• With the countdown to Bitcoin Day down to just 69 days, the nuts and bolts needed to make the cryptocurrency work as legal tender are still a mirage.
  — Wired, 30 June 2021
• Last year, El Salvador became the first nation in the world to make bitcoin legal tender alongside the US dollar.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 11 May 2022
• Its use as legal tender will begin in 90 days, with the bitcoin-dollar exchange rate set by the market.
  — NBC News, 9 June 2021
• This clash of interests has come to a head in El Salvador, which a year ago became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender.
  — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2022
• That is precisely the scenario that played out in El Salvador, the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 16 May 2022
• It’s legal tender based on code, not paper, that’s distributed by the central bank.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2021
• Coins that are legal tender in the U.S., such as American Eagles, aren’t collectibles.
  — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
• El Salvador in September became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.
  — Reuters, CNN, 21 Nov. 2021
• Instead, a new currency called the Zimbabwe dollar will now be the sole legal tender in the country.
  — Chris Muronzi, Quartz Africa, 26 June 2019
• In this sense, legal tender today is much more private than bitcoin.
  — Hailey Lennon, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• The coins are legal tender, but they are intended to be given to a charitable cause.
  — Dan Ariely, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
• Back in 1905, a proposal was presented to the people of the town that Limburger cheese be declared legal tender for the payment of all debts.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2021
• Under the 1965 Australian Currency Act, it is used as the country’s legal tender.
  — Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 July 2022
• Without this system, the dollar might not be so mighty; instead, states would have their own legal tenders and the power to set interest rates.
  — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2023
• Twenty of those countries use the euro, legal tender for about 350 million people.
  — Paul Lewis, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
• Even El Salvador, which adopted bitcoin as legal tender in 2021, has had a hard time getting its citizens on board.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024