How to Use nickel in a Sentence

nickel

noun
  • In the past 52 weeks, the stock has zipped as high as $10 a share, and been as low as a nickel.
    John Dorfman, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The unit cost for nickels was 13.78 cents, the report said.
    Nathan Bomey, Axios, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Al-Shaair was a starter who came off the field when the 49ers went to their nickel defense.
    Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Snowdrop bulbs are small, about the size of a nickel or dime.
    Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Nikko Reed was outside and Cole Martin was a nickel on the drive.
    oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The margin of error for attaching the skirt is one-tenth of an inch, the width of a nickel.
    Saumya Gupta, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
  • Elliott played some nickel and more down in the box in past seasons, as well.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Walk-on Christopher Wallace filled in at Husky (nickel) safety the rest of the way.
    Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 4 Sep. 2023
  • There’s also a leather strap and nickel buckle to complete the look.
    Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 30 June 2023
  • The price of nickel double in March alone — and that means the cost of the stampers used by record plants has also gone way up.
    Brad Moon, Forbes, 12 June 2022
  • As a surcharge, and not a deposit, the purchasers would not get their nickel back.
    Christopher Keating, courant.com, 21 Sep. 2021
  • And my sister and I would throw shows in our basement and charge other kids a nickel.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
  • But for us, the chance to add Kelvin as a guy that can play inside and out but has played the nickel and did in the preseason here well.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Cameron Martinez are leading the race for snaps at nickel.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Get nickel and dimed every few miles on toll roads back East.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Its value is so high because it's packed full of nickel, iron and cobalt.
    Julius Lasin, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2021
  • At the heart of the trade-off are Indonesia’s unrivaled stocks of nickel.
    Peter S. Goodman Ulet Ifansasti, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • By the time of Fisker’s bankruptcy, its shares were trading for a nickel.
    Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Hilton is really good in his role as a nickel corner who plays in the slot.
    Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The country’s sole nickel mine in use is in the Upper Peninsula.
    Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2023
  • One time, a Vietnamese woman and her kid counted nickels on my counter to pay for a bill.
    Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
  • In the electric-vehicle business, the quandary is known as the nickel pickle.
    Jon Emont, WSJ, 4 June 2023
  • Engram, the team’s nickel back, has started four games and played in all 10 this season.
    Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Young projects as a nickel cornerback, which loomed as one of the more pressing needs on the roster.
    Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The superb rock is composed of nickel, cobalt and iron worth $4.7 billion.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The notion suggests that a ton of sequestered carbon isn’t like, say, a ton of nickel.
    New York Times, 5 May 2022
  • Mitchell will then bump inside on nickel downs and be replaced by Kelee Ringo.
    NBC News, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Nickelback is a peptide made of 13 amino acids which bonds to two nickel ions.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Danielson confirmed that redshirt senior Davon Banks is the starter at nickel heading into spring.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 11 Mar. 2025
  • However, defensive coordinator Teryl Austin loves to use three safeties on the field together in various nickel and dime looks.
    Mike Defabo, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025

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