How to Use shilling in a Sentence

shilling

noun

• The shilling has lost over 37% of its value against the dollar in the past five years.
  — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 27 Apr. 2023
• After all the lies and all the shilling, Pence and his spokesmen now ask us to spare him.
  — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 22 May 2017
• Here’s one from 1891: a hat made in Paris and bought in London for three shillings.
  — Mary Jo Dilonardo, Treehugger, 25 May 2023
• The cheapest painkillers cost around six cents, or ten Kenyan shillings, for a pack of two.
  — Elizabeth Wells and Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 5 Dec. 2023
• The Kenyan shilling inched higher against the dollar soon after the joint statement by the two leaders.
  — Matina Stevis-Gridneff, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• Shilling scored two goals a minute apart in the third quarter to give Boys' Latin its first lead and then insurance at 8-6.
  — Glenn Graham, baltimoresun.com, 25 Apr. 2017
• The Kenyan shilling has for the longest time been measuring lowly against the US dollar.
  — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 27 Apr. 2023
• According to the New York Times, a farmer could sell one egg for a penny or 12 for a shilling (which equaled 12 pennies).
  — Micah A Leal, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2023
• Third day of planting; sold four bushels of grain—x shillings; quarreled with brother.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2020
• The shilling has slumped 11% against the dollar since the start of the year, ranking it among Africa’s 10 worst-performing currencies this year.
  — David Herbling, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2023
• The Kenyan shilling has weakened 2 percent against the dollar in that period.
  — Felix Njini, Bloomberg.com, 30 Sep. 2017
• The monarch offers this at the altar then it is symbolically bought back for 100 shillings.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 6 May 2023
• The Nairobi Stock Exchange fell sharply after the court’s decision, while the Kenyan shilling weakened slightly.
  — The Economist, 1 Sep. 2017
• The gilded silver spoon escaped the Parliamentary melting pot because a man who’d once worked for the king bought it for 16 shillings.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• In the summer of 1600 she was indicted at Middlesex Sessions for stealing two shillings and eleven pence.
  — Longreads, 8 May 2018
• De Hales left Basilia, gave up his shop, and sold all of his possessions, including two feather beds, and some pots and utensils worth two shillings and sixpence.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2024
• This means that the king inherited all of the queen's massive wealth directly—without paying a shilling of inheritance tax.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 6 May 2023
• The Kenyan shilling has also lost about 10% of its value relative to the dollar in the last year, Kenyan outlet Citizen Digital reported.
  — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
• Yet it should be noted that the capital offenses do not include crimes against property; under English law, the theft of a shilling was a hanging offense.
  — Marilynne Robinson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• And Charles won’t have to pay a shilling of inheritance tax, thanks to a 1993 agreement with the British government that exempts transfers of property from one sovereign to another.
  — Giacomo Tognini, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Without any support, a month’s treatment costs 5,000 Kenyan shillings, out of reach not only for Mr. Mwaniki and many others working in Kenya’s large informal economy.
  — Daniel Kipchumba, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Jan. 2024
• But even as the shilling for lunar time-shares plays out in a universe seemingly caught between eras, the production design is a constant wonder and curiosity, if not a positive distraction.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 16 Feb. 2023
• Participation ranges at the extremes, from the preaching of zealots to shilling and promotion by corporate representatives.
  — Eve MacSweeney, Vogue, 17 May 2018
• Following the remarks shown in the Instagram post, Ruto said the country's fuel distributors would begin purchasing fuel from importers with shillings instead of dollars.
  — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
• In preparation for the potential blow that coronavirus may wreak Kenya’s government has committed 500 million Kenyan shilling ($5 million) for a post-coronavirus public relations campaign.
  — Alexandria Williams, Quartz Africa, 13 Mar. 2020
• Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen (pounds) nineteen (shillings) and six (pence), result happiness.
  — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2017

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024