sterling

Example Sentences

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Melodrama doesn’t exactly have the most sterling reputation for discerning cinema viewers.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026

The independent, nonpartisan Cook Political Report, which has a sterling decades-long record of election forecasting, said the most probable outcome is a wash.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026

Western, a Labour MP, said political parties should have to convert the donation to pounds sterling within 48 hours, and called for a ban on donations where the ultimate donor had been obscured.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

“The sterling market is one of the few places where 50-year to 100-year bonds consistently find buyers,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

Odd sterling servers are popular, for spooning out deviled eggs, removing pimentos from olives, cracking quail legs.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett