dime - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • spare: Say, don't you remember I'm your pal, Brother, can you spare a dime?
  • spend: Well, last year our winners got all the way to Hong Kong without spending a dime!
  • pay: When she refused to pay a dime, he told her, " You don't think we know where you live?
  • cost: To achieve half of the cure for PPS, it doesn't cost a dime.
  • get: My lawyer said with your letter that you wrote, you won't get a dime from me.
  • make: That same person never made a dime in trading during 5 years.

Adjective modifier

  • thin: I have never benefited by one thin dime from Iraq.
  • last: Feeling better about his luck, he used his last dime in a slot machine and hit the jackpot.
  • own: I went to the Smithsonian Institute - on my own dime!
  • new: BTW, mine came through shining like a new dime.
  • single: First, AFS told every prospective vendor that it wouldn't pay a single dime until the technology was up and running.
  • silver: Could Clint Eastwood really break his way out of Alcatraz armed only with some silver dimes, a spoon and a box of matches?

Modifies a noun

  • novel: Herb Stanton was setting in a chair over behind the water trough across the street reading a dime novel.
  • store: Like a dime store neon novel overpriced cheap food is my fate.
  • bar: Leaving the s off sugared almonds, my submission is: Dime bar!
  • algo: Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:42:20 +0000 Mira Laura, toma la direccion web, , , dime algo.
  • bag: Like, I mean, you can get more dime bags per deal.
  • machine: Bringing dogs playing pays coins for more dime machines.

Preposition: in

  • machine: Feeling better about his luck, he used his last dime in a slot machine and hit the jackpot.

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