COIN in a Sentence

Learn COIN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
93 example sentences for COIN, such as:
1. Stand the coin on its edge.
2. Pay somebody back in his own coin.
3. de Wardes with such terrible coin.
4. She bent to pick up a coin from the floor.
5. He rings every coin to find a counterfeit.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of COIN
coin
 v.  make pieces of money from metal; invent or fabricate
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught sight of him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
2  Cosette had a little pocket on one side of her apron; she took the coin without saying a word, and put it in that pocket.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATE...
3  And he held out a silver coin to the Thenardier.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
4  Thenardier approached and silently put the coin in his pocket.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
5  She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at him with a gloomy air.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS
6  Mabeuf, in his venerable, infantile austerity, had not accepted the gift of the stars; he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF
7  Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF
8  Every one has noticed with what nimbleness a coin which one has dropped on the ground rolls away and hides, and with what art it renders itself undiscoverable.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—DAWN
9  de Wardes with such terrible coin.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER
10  In the unholy crimson glow that bathed them, his dark profile stood out as clearly as the head on an ancient coin, beautiful, cruel and decadent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  He rings every coin to find a counterfeit.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
12  Before this equatorial coin, Ahab, not unobserved by others, was now pausing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
13  I have never marked the coin inspectingly.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
14  Aye, here on the coin he's just crossing the threshold between two of twelve sitting-rooms all in a ring.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
15  The violets exhaled their sweet breath, whilst I pressed against the windowpanes covered with fantastic frost-work the copper coin I had heated on the stove, and so made peep-holes.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
Example Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  Jiao Zi looks like gold coin, implying a wealthy year ahead.
2  Pay somebody back in his own coin.
3  He steadied a coin on the top of the basketball bank.
4  Slide the coin into the TV, and it would turn on.
5  She held the coin carefully between finger and thumb.
6  Stand the coin on its edge.
7  Oh, well, no news is good news, to coin a phrase.
8  She bent to pick up a coin from the floor.
9  The reverse side of the coin has a picture of a flower.
10  They flipped a coin to decide who would go first.
11  Let's spin the coin to decide whether to go or not.
12  The U.S. Mint is set to unveil a new $1 coin bearing the image of President Abraham Lincoln.
13  Surely she cannot truly like him; if she did, she need not coin her smiles so lavishly and manufacture airs so elaborate.
14  The United States five-cent coin, commonly called a nickel, is a unit of currency equaling one-twentieth, or five hundredths, of a United States dollar.
15  He handled the coin so many times to efface its date.