twenty-five cents

Example Sentences

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Go back further and the 1896 Fannie Farmer cookbook sternly informs readers that, “eggs, even at twenty-five cents per dozen, should not be freely used by the strict economist.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2023

What did you expect for twenty-five cents per day plus expenses, the FBI?

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2018

A ticket for a double feature and a live show cost twenty-five cents; for a quarter, Americans could escape from their problems and lose themselves in another era or world.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

Pocket books were priced to sell for twenty-five cents.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 29, 2014

“The other was two box tops from corn flakes. They send you twenty-five cents if you mail them two box tops with stars on the tops. For milk money, it said.”

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg