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How to use the word pennies in a Sentence?

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This is a new hurdle for shoppers in store, isn't this the worst time to be paying higher prices ? We're not talking about pennies.

Edgar Dworsky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You have to understand that the cartels in Mexico can produce these fentanyl tablets for pennies on the dollar, there’s a huge profit motive for the cartels.

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We know that these engines are far from realistically replacing the RD-180, continue to buy Russian engines. They cost pennies.

Dmitry Rogozin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Applaud yourself when you do good each day. You don't get rewarded for every single penny that you share for others, but these pennies when collected can weigh more than the actual weight of 2.5 billion people.

Clifford Villalon

added by Beverley2003
3 years ago

It's -- I call it chasing pennies to China, and look what it has cost us.

Mike Bowen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I can see them scooping those up for pennies on the dollar and using them to bolster their offerings.

Nucleus Research analyst Daniel Elman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We stood like two trees beside, intertwined into one. And when the winds blew against us, we would laugh at it, as leaves clapping hands to our strength. Always day. We had all the stars, but no sky to hang them onto. We were brave, but not strong. Bare, but not skeleton. We had song, but no dance. Time slipped as a blessed curse. We knew the pennies were slipping from our pockets, and we left them there on the ground as worthless cents. In wordless sense, we finally found our darkness, but the stars had all faded by then.

Anthony Liccione

added by anonymous
4 years ago

The drivers are the ones who are running the business, we are collecting pennies.

Muhumed Ali

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I have an opportunity to go to Israel for a few months and study with my favorite teachers over there, and that's where I'm going to go and probably move somewhere there and study with my favorite teachers. I have saved a few pennies and I'm so lucky I can go. It's my great joy and privilege to be a Jewish woman.

Roseanne Barr

Found on CNN
5 years ago

By accepting cryptocurrencies, you can do it for pennies and at the same time you can transfer money, really, in almost an instant amount of time, so, this new technology is absolutely going to replace what we have now with our inefficient credit cards and banking systems.

Jack Biltis

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The facts are that Hillary Clinton has vigorously supported almost every piece of disastrous trade legislation, i have opposed those pieces of legislation, helped lead the opposition to them, because I understood that American workers should not be forced to compete with people in Mexico, people in China that are making pennies on the dollar.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think it's really good to get kids involved and to let them know what the important stuff really is. it's 20 bucks, but coming from Jack collecting his pennies, it's worth 20 million bucks to me and to our community.

Faisal Naeem

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's 20 bucks, but coming from Jack collecting his pennies, it's worth 20 million bucks to me and to our community.

Faisal Naeem

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If you look after the pennies, the dollars will look after themselves.

J. Paul Getty

added by anonymous
13 years ago

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

Chinese Proverb

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

Thomas Sowell

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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