Example Sentences

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Hatzigeorgiou says he often finds bags and backpacks with Turkish liras or packets of medicine in Turkish discarded around the village by people on the move.

From Reuters • Aug. 25, 2023

"If he stays it will be 100 liras."

From BBC • May 4, 2023

The central bank said exporters would be required to exchange 25% of their foreign currency revenue into liras.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2022

A loaf of bread still sells at 2.5 liras, or about 20 cents, but bakeries are complaining that their costs are closer to 4 liras a loaf, he said.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2021

The General Navigation Company sold her for eighty thousand liras years ago, and now she was worth two million.

From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)