DIME in a Sentence
Learn DIME 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.
10 example sentences for DIME, such as:
1. PhDs are a dime a dozen nowadays.
2. I can drill a dime at fifty yards.
3. Books like this are a dime a dozen.
2. I can drill a dime at fifty yards.
3. Books like this are a dime a dozen.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DIME
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dime
n. a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar
n. street name for a packet of illegal drugs that is sold for ten dollars
Classic Sentence:
1 I can drill a dime at fifty yards.
2 The "woman" was more tractable, and for a dime Jurgis secured two thick sandwiches and a piece of pie and two apples.
3 There was no choice then but to go to a lodging-house and spend another dime.
4 "I seem to have walked right into the thick of a dime novel," said our visitor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
Context Highlight In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
5 If his notions of hidden treasure had been analyzed, they would have been found to consist of a handful of real dimes and a bushel of vague, splendid, ungraspable dollars.
6 They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.
Example Sentence:
1 Books like this are a dime a dozen.
2 PhDs are a dime a dozen nowadays.
3 The front (obverse) of the dime pictures a left-facing profile of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only four-term President of the United States of America.
4 He jingled too hard, and one of the dimes fell out; he looked for that dime for hours to no avail.