dime
Example Sentences
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“We have to do a better job to find those pennies out there—those pennies, nickels and dimes to save and not turn the lights on until you need to,” he says.
The auditor said he isn’t out to nickel and dime anyone.
“Yeah,” I said as I shoved the little box down in my pocket, “I’d like a dime’s worth of jawbreakers.”
From Literature
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That dime appeared to drop for stock market investors Monday.
From Los Angeles Times
Unless you’re the importer of record—and maybe even then—you won’t get back a dime of the duty you paid.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.