cent Sentence Examples

  1. A dollar is equivalent to one hundred cents.
  2. The price of the item was $4.50, which is 450 cents.
  3. In many countries, coins are denominated in cents for smaller denominations.
  4. The vending machine only accepts exact change, including coins as small as five cents.
  5. He owed me fifty cents for the coffee he bought earlier.
  6. She saved every spare cent to afford her dream vacation.
  7. The charity fundraiser collected donations ranging from a few cents to several dollars.
  8. The old arcade games required players to insert a few cents to start playing.
  9. The government announced a reduction in taxes by several cents per gallon of gasoline.
  10. He won the bet by a margin of only a few cents in the stock market.

cent Meaning

Wordnet

cent (n)

a fractional monetary unit of several countries

a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit

Webster

cent (n.)

A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.

A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.

An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game.

Synonyms & Antonyms of cent

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FAQs About the word cent

a fractional monetary unit of several countries, a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unitA hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten par

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A dollar is equivalent to one hundred cents.

The price of the item was $4.50, which is 450 cents.

In many countries, coins are denominated in cents for smaller denominations.

The vending machine only accepts exact change, including coins as small as five cents.