CENT in a Sentence

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132 example sentences for CENT, such as:
1. Miss Scarlett, I haven't got a cent now.
2. Five per cent of children stammer at some point.
3. The increase will not be in excess of two per cent.
4. Sales rose by nought point four per cent last month.
5. You must allow for five per cent wastage in transit.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CENT
cent
 n.  a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
 n.  a fractional monetary unit of several countries
Classic Sentence: (94 in 7 pages)
1  There are enough stupid patriots who are risking every cent they have in the blockade and who are going to come out of this war paupers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  Miss Scarlett, I haven't got a cent now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  I know I've got gall asking for Miss Suellen now when I haven't a cent but--well, it's this way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  The Yankees thought President Davis had it when he left Richmond but when they captured the poor man he had hardly a cent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
5  The minute Sue got her hands on a little money she'd give herself unendurable airs and never contribute one cent toward the upkeep of Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  If I'd drawn a draft they could have traced it somehow and I doubt if you'd have gotten a cent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  And get every cent out of them you can, but when you've got enough money, kick them in the face, because they can't serve you any longer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
8  And finally he threw me out into the world without a cent and no training whatsoever to be anything but a Charleston gentleman, a good pistol shot and an excellent poker player.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
9  And if I can manage it, you'll play hell getting a cent from any of them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
10  And when Ashley came home, sick, discouraged, without a home, without a cent in his pockets, she took him in like a sister.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
11  We ought to retrench, and not let the city council spend another cent.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  But the commission merchants there were in cahoots with the local shipper here; they said they wouldn't pay us a cent more than he would, not even if they was nearer to the market.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  Don't stave the boats needlessly, ye harpooneers; good white cedar plank is raised full three per cent.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
14  It was his plan that every cent of his sister's wages should be paid over to him each month, and he would provide her with such clothing as he thought necessary.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
15  He was paid off one morning, and by the next he hadn't a cent left, and his watch and compass were gone.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  You must allow for five per cent wastage in transit.
2  Now is the time for the Chancellor to take the bull by the horns and announce a two per cent cut in interest rates.
3  Fifteen per cent of the population attend a place of worship.
4  One per cent of total public spending should eventually go towards the arts.
5  The brain accounts for merely three per cent of body weight.
6  Due to unforeseen circumstances the cost of the improvements has risen by twenty per cent.
7  Some analysts estimate its current popularity at around ten per cent.
8  Eighty per cent of sewage is piped directly into the sea.
9  The poor man is not the man without a cent, but the man without a dream.
10  Five per cent of children stammer at some point.
11  Sales rose by nought point four per cent last month.
12  The increase will not be in excess of two per cent.
13  Thirteen per cent of the population live below the poverty line.
14  Sixty per cent of all marital separations occur before the tenth year of marriage.
15  Ninety per cent of lone parent families are headed by mothers.