How to Use ruble in a Sentence

ruble

noun
  • She gave the driver a ruble.
  • The ruble fell against the U.S. dollar.
  • At the start of the year, a ruble was worth 1.33 cents.
    Stan Choe, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2022
  • By the end of June, the price of the ruble had rebounded.
    Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The ruble had been trading in the range of 70 to 80 for a U.S. dollar.
    Zenger News, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • The ruble is at its weakest point in at least the last 10 years.
    Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Since the war last week, the ruble has plunged to its record low against the US dollar.
    Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The ruble’s value plunged to less than one cent in March.
    Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 16 July 2022
  • And the ruble is not on the radar of currency traders, the way that, say, the British pound or Swiss franc is.
    Neil Irwin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The man said he had been promised half a million rubles (a little over $5,000).
    USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Last week the ruble and the Moscow stock market were in free fall.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2022
  • At its peak on March 7, the ruble was trading at 135 to the dollar.
    David Goldman, CNN, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The ruble has fallen 8.7% this week and 13% this month against the U.S. dollar.
    Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The ruble is near a five-year high against the euro and stands at a more-than-two-year high against the dollar.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 18 May 2022
  • That could trigger a plunge in the ruble and a spike in inflation.
    Fortune, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The ruble fell to its lowest value in more than two decades.
    Monica Hersher, NBC News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • In Russia relies on oil as the main source of income and the price collapse caused the ruble to crash.
    Jon Gambrell, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2020
  • This year alone, the ruble has lost 20 percent of its value.
    TheWeek, 25 Oct. 2020
  • To halt the slide in the ruble, Russia's central bank on Monday hiked the benchmark rate to 20% from 8.5%.
    CBS News, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The ruble has already lost more than 20% of its value against both the dollar and euro since the start of the war in Ukraine.
    Laura He, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The ruble has been even weaker in the offshore market this week.
    Charles Riley, CNN, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The scramble came as the ruble plunged Monday, trading at 104 to the US dollar.
    Michelle Toh, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The Russian stock market fell sharply last week, and the ruble plunged in value over the weekend.
    oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the Russian ruble lost ground against the dollar and the euro.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The Russian ruble has been one of the casualties of Trump's slide in the polls in recent days.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The ruble on Monday fell to a record low against the dollar, dropping to under 1 U.S. cent.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Since the ruble sank, $7 billion has already been withdrawn from the banks.
    ABC News, 27 Feb. 2022
  • The dollar was down 0.9% against the Russian ruble, while the Australian dollar was up 0.5%.
    Ira Iosebashvili, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2019
  • The fee for marriages would remain unchanged at 350 rubles under the proposal.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 28 June 2024
  • Meanwhile, there's still talk of a digital ruble, but that's a different topic.
    Brady Dale, Axios, 6 Aug. 2024

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