sixpences
- plural of sixpence.
Example Sentences
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It was heard all of the coins were silver and included half crowns, shillings and sixpences.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2021
The funny old game with players who could turn on sixpences is gone, but a new breed of football clichés is emerging.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2013
In London, a coroner found that the late Sidney Corrall, acquisitive but non compos mentis, had swallowed and kept all to himself 201 pennies, florins, shillings, halfpennies, sixpences, half crowns, and threepenny bits.
From Time Magazine Archive
The most extensive case of coin swallowing was reported by Sedgefield General Hospital, County Durham, England, where a man was relieved of 366 halfpennies, 26 sixpences.
From Time Magazine Archive
As to the rest, we can have the windows mended; and do you keep all the sixpences you earn for yourself.'
From The Parent's Assistant Stories for Children by Edgeworth, Maria
