coppers

Example Sentences

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Mette, who has been with the department for 18 years, told "young coppers" they have a "long way to go."

From Fox News • Oct. 21, 2021

Could the man seemingly most committed to rooting out bent coppers be the worst of them all?

From BBC • May 1, 2021

“You want to say `I know all these coppers, I know all these things?’

From Washington Times • Oct. 13, 2020

There do exist bent coppers as the saying goes.

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2018

And I had gone into the sandalwood box where I kept my savings and taken out twenty coppers and four twenty-cent pieces.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz