COIN in a Sentence

Learn COIN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

93 example sentences for COIN, such as:

1. Gold coins clinked in his hand.
2. These coins are not equal value.
3. de Wardes with such terrible coin.
4. She rattled some coins in the box.
5. He posed as an expert on old coins.

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 Meanings and Examples of COIN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
coin
 v.  make pieces of money from metal; invent or fabricate
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught sight of him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
2  Cosette had a little pocket on one side of her apron; she took the coin without saying a word, and put it in that pocket.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATE...
3  And he held out a silver coin to the Thenardier.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
4  Thenardier approached and silently put the coin in his pocket.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
5  She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at him with a gloomy air.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS
6  Mabeuf, in his venerable, infantile austerity, had not accepted the gift of the stars; he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF
7  Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF
8  Every one has noticed with what nimbleness a coin which one has dropped on the ground rolls away and hides, and with what art it renders itself undiscoverable.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—DAWN
9  de Wardes with such terrible coin.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER
10  In the unholy crimson glow that bathed them, his dark profile stood out as clearly as the head on an ancient coin, beautiful, cruel and decadent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  He rings every coin to find a counterfeit.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
12  Before this equatorial coin, Ahab, not unobserved by others, was now pausing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
13  I have never marked the coin inspectingly.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
14  Aye, here on the coin he's just crossing the threshold between two of twelve sitting-rooms all in a ring.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
15  The violets exhaled their sweet breath, whilst I pressed against the windowpanes covered with fantastic frost-work the copper coin I had heated on the stove, and so made peep-holes.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
Example Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
16  Now the wealth did not weigh on me: now it was not a mere bequest of coin, it was a legacy of life, hope, enjoyment.
17  Then it occurred to him that the great adventure itself must be a dream! There was one very strong argument in favor of this idea -- namely, that the quantity of coin he had seen was too vast to be real.
18  Tom poured the mass of yellow coin upon the table and said: "There -- what did I tell you? Half of it's Huck's and half of it's mine!"
19  While it has been lightly dipped and lightly cleaned, the overall look of the coin is appealing.
20  They are easily confused with the many startups that have recently launched new crypto currencies via an initial coin offering (ICO), a much hyped form of crowdfunding.
21  The old man conjured up a bag of silver coins from his pocket.
22  She shook the bag and some coins fell out.
23  These coins are not equal value.
24  She rattled some coins in the box.
25  The treasure dug out of the earth was a box of gold coins.
26  The head of the Queen appears on the obverse of British coins.
27  He posed as an expert on old coins.
28  He gave the panhandler a few coins out of pity.
29  I have a half dollar but no smaller coins.
30  Gold coins clinked in his hand.