Example Sentences

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Now we’re paying for it, both in dollars and in longer odds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026

That momentum continued into Tuesday, as leveraged bets on SpaceX generated billions of dollars of additional trading volume in what Balchunas called a “total feeding frenzy.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 16, 2026

On the flip side, he said, they keep getting beat up by the ocean and costing taxpayers millions of dollars to repair or replace.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2026

“What you really get as appropriations chair is hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks,” a fellow congressional appropriator told me, “not what everybody else gets.”

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2026

Or Mama would have me figure out how much change we should get at the checkout at the store, and I’d say, “Seven dollars and eighty-six cents.”

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan