DIME in a Sentence

Learn DIME 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.

10 example sentences for DIME, such as:

1. PhDs are a dime a dozen nowadays.
2. I can drill a dime at fifty yards.
3. Books like this are a dime a dozen.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of DIME
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dime
 n.  a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar
Classic Sentence:
1  I can drill a dime at fifty yards.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  The "woman" was more tractable, and for a dime Jurgis secured two thick sandwiches and a piece of pie and two apples.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
3  There was no choice then but to go to a lodging-house and spend another dime.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
4  "I seem to have walked right into the thick of a dime novel," said our visitor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
5  If his notions of hidden treasure had been analyzed, they would have been found to consist of a handful of real dimes and a bushel of vague, splendid, ungraspable dollars.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
6  They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
Example Sentence:
1  Books like this are a dime a dozen.
2  PhDs are a dime a dozen nowadays.
3  The front (obverse) of the dime pictures a left-facing profile of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only four-term President of the United States of America.
4  He jingled too hard, and one of the dimes fell out; he looked for that dime for hours to no avail.