benny

Example Sentences

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There’s a place called Sweet Butter down on Ventura Boulevard, and they do a real nice eggs benny.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2025

"I can get along without the benny," reflected the Kid, "because I'm naturally warm-blooded, but take away my old white kettle and I'm a soldier gone to war without his gun."

From Old Man Curry Race Track Stories by Van Loan, Charles E. (Charles Emmett)

He tailed the lad in the fur benny from the drug-store and came here.

From Whispering Wires by Leverage, Henry

But look you, niece Magdalen, I 'ave got five tousand pounds: if you marry him I vill not give you a benny.

From The Fatal Boots by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Say, near as I kin tell by feelin' it, dat ain't such a bum benny you're sportin'.

From The Life of the Party by Preston, James M.