loose change

noun

1. money in the form of coins suitable for small expenditures

Example Sentences

If it were a sofa, he would have removed all the cushions and felt his way ’round the edges with his fingertips, the way one might search for enough loose change to pay one’s fare on the omnibus.

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Just the week before, they’d dug through the couch cushions looking for loose change for the laundry.

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With capital expenditure due to peak in the coming year, the miner has little loose change for an all-cash deal, the analysts write.

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But you don't have to be old enough to remember fumbling for loose change to make calls in public phone boxes in the 1980s to understand the value of one human interacting at first hand with other human beings, seeing the lives they lead and sometimes the way they die.

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Disney’s respective 70 percent purchase of Fubo stakes was meant to toss some loose change, make the suit go away, and keep Disney focused on its in-house sports missions.

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