How to Use shilling in a Sentence
shilling
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The shilling has lost over 37% of its value against the dollar in the past five years.
—Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 27 Apr. 2023
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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
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Here’s one from 1891: a hat made in Paris and bought in London for three shillings.
—Mary Jo Dilonardo, Treehugger, 25 May 2023
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The Kenyan shilling inched higher against the dollar soon after the joint statement by the two leaders.
—Matina Stevis-Gridneff, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
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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
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The Kenyan shilling has for the longest time been measuring lowly against the US dollar.
—Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 27 Apr. 2023
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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
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Third day of planting; sold four bushels of grain—x shillings; quarreled with brother.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2020
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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
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The Kenyan shilling has weakened 2 percent against the dollar in that period.
—Felix Njini, Bloomberg.com, 30 Sep. 2017
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The monarch offers this at the altar then it is symbolically bought back for 100 shillings.
—Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 6 May 2023
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The Nairobi Stock Exchange fell sharply after the court’s decision, while the Kenyan shilling weakened slightly.
—The Economist, 1 Sep. 2017
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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
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In the summer of 1600 she was indicted at Middlesex Sessions for stealing two shillings and eleven pence.
—Longreads, 8 May 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Participation ranges at the extremes, from the preaching of zealots to shilling and promotion by corporate representatives.
—Eve MacSweeney, Vogue, 17 May 2018
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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
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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
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen (pounds) nineteen (shillings) and six (pence), result happiness.
—John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2017
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