How to Use shekel in a Sentence

shekel

noun

• The city received a cost of living score of 106, due in large part to the strength of the Israeli shekel against the U.S. dollar.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2021
• The remaining shekels are placed in a supply in the middle.
  — Jonathan H. Liu, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2012
• Now the chain has raised the flat price at its cafes to six shekels, and suddenly my friends don’t go anymore.
  — Dan Ariely, WSJ, 20 July 2017
• The shekel weakened to head for its worst week since the start of Israel’s war with Hamas in October.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
• One wonders why the contribution was a half shekel and not a whole.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Feb. 2022
• The shekel was about 1.8% lower against the U.S. dollar on Monday morning.
  — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2023
• His son won’t ask the sons of wealthy oligarchs to spot him 400 shekels for a prostitute, as Yair Netanyahu did.
  — Gregg Carlstrom, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2018
• In fact, everyone contributed the same amount: a half shekel, no more, no less.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Feb. 2022
• One kilo of plastic sells for around one Israeli shekel, or 30 cents.
  — Heidi Levine, National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2019
• The Israeli stock market jumped about two points and the shekel rallied at the news that Gallant was going to oppose him.
  — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Part of the reason for Tel Aviv’s rise to the top was the strength of its currency, the shekel, when translated into dollars, the report said.
  — NBC News, 1 Dec. 2021
• Oil prices are up since Wednesday morning and Israel’s shekel is heading for its worst week in more than four years.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
• Among the highlights of the exhibit are one of two known silver half-shekel coins minted by Jewish rebels in the first year of the revolt against Rome in A.D. 66.
  — Fox News, 7 July 2018
• The Israeli shekel weakened slightly after the data release to trade at around 3.62 to the US dollar.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
• The shekel dropped to its lowest value since February 2016.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2023
• Those concerns have already sent the shekel plummeting to the lowest level in years.
  — Josh Lederman, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2023
• The Hebrew site also provides prices quoted in shekels.
  — sun-sentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2019
• She, too, will be given credit for time served, leaving her five months in prison, along with a fine of 6,000 Israeli shekels (approx.
  — Oren Liebermann, CNN, 21 Mar. 2018
• How much has the Trump family made, and where, and who has paid them, right down to the last ruble, renminbi, manat, shekel, peso, and loonie?
  — Kevin Baker, The New Republic, 17 May 2018
• Much of this is thanks to the appreciation of Israel’s currency, the shekel.
  — Camille Squires, Quartz, 2 Dec. 2021
• Israeli Army Radio put the cost of damages at 5 million shekels ($1.4 million).
  — Fox News, 4 June 2018
• Spotting a street vendor, Mr. al-Garosha stopped to buy two cigarettes, for a shekel each, with a five-shekel coin his mother had given him.
  — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• The shekel was the biggest loser among the world’s major currencies on Tuesday, losing as much as 2% against the dollar to trade at its weakest in close to three years.
  — Marissa Newman, Bloomberg.com, 20 Feb. 2023
• Israel’s currency, the shekel, has tumbled in value this year after the plan was unveiled.
  — Time, 17 July 2023
• In fact the two that have strengthened the most against the dollar over this period—Thailand’s baht and Israel’s shekel—have done so consistently.
  — The Economist, 8 Dec. 2019
• Bitcoin was first conceived as a way to buy goods and services without dollars, shekels, Euros and credit cards.
  — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 29 Mar. 2018
• Two shekels once bought three cans of chickpeas but now cover only one, said Mahmoud Marzouq, 29, a Gaza City resident.
  — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, New York Times, 24 May 2024
• While there may be a few thousand shekels and half shekels still in existence, the quarter shekel is much rarer because it was only produced in two of the five years of the revolt, experts said.
  — Graham Bowley, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2022
• While there may be a few thousand shekels and half shekels still in existence, the quarter shekel is much rarer because it was only produced in two of the five years of the revolt, experts said.
  — Graham Bowley, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2022
• Netanyahu said the government would give Israeli families 500 shekels per child, up to a maximum of four children.
  — NBC News, 18 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024