How to Use coinage in a Sentence

coinage

noun
  • Coinage was scarce in the colonies.
  • The word “blog” is a recent coinage.
  • Now, more than a decade later, the coinage is gaining new, legal, heft.
    — Tom Simonite, Wired, 29 Jan. 2021
  • But ticket sales are already proving the extra coinage was worth it.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 26 Mar. 2023
  • That’s more coinage than many films manage to earn in their entire theatrical runs.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The issuing of coinage and postage stamps tends to be the first order of business for a new state.
    — Geoff Manaugh, The Atlantic, 20 July 2021
  • Around the same time, the Greeks came up with a pretty nifty invention — coinage.
    — Richard Jakiel, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2019
  • There were a few coinages in the script, but 90 percent of the language is real.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
  • So the movie will require a little more coinage than Peele’s past films to turn a profit.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 24 July 2022
  • His coinage started to catch on, thanks to those who were grateful to have a name for their affliction.
    — Yohana Desta, HWD, 3 July 2017
  • The first contains a small amount of coinage which symbolizes the monarch's gift for food and clothing.
    — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 14 Apr. 2022
  • These numbers represent net coinage and do not include coins that were melted at the mint.
    — arkansasonline.com, 20 July 2024
  • Propagandi, in other words, isn’t just a clever coinage.
    — Tim Requarth, Longreads, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Jerome Powell is a great messager (there’s an obvious new coinage).
    — George Calhoun, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The book was a best seller, and its titular coinage has since sunk into the lexicon.
    — Jessica Pressler, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Humor, in his work, is never far from horror — may indeed be the coinage of a horrified brain.
    — Rhoda Feng, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Coinage tells us what some of the world's biggest fountains do with those tons of coins each year, and the answer is quite surprising.
    — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
  • The first contained a small amount of ordinary coinage which symbolizes the monarch’s gift for food and clothing.
    — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • With the fall of that earlier empire, coinage disappeared and barter returned.
    — Helen Andrews, National Review, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The British cringed over new American accents, coinages and vulgarisms.
    — Time, 11 June 2019
  • That means Peele’s third feature is not quite profitable yet and will require a little more coinage than his past films to get out of the red.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022
  • However, there is precedent for a living president on coinage.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The coinage also follows tradition as Charles' portrait turns to the left, while his mother's faces the right.
    — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Perhaps boredom is its father, and—in the world of language and its coinage—social media the incubator.
    — The Economist, 27 June 2020
  • Elevated levels of lead gave the Romans away — a byproduct of the silver smelting used to make their unique coinage.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2018
  • The retailer has posted signs requesting exact coinage.
    — Alexander Coolidge, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • With the passage of the Acts of Union, coinage, taxes and trade were standardized across Great Britain.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2020
  • The 'rich chocolate pie' costs under $2 also, which is obviously well worth the coinage — sure, the flight will be a little bit more, but still worth it.
    — Jess Edwards, Cosmopolitan, 20 Aug. 2017
  • The Sponsian coinage series was used to pay senior soldiers and officials, who kept them as a store of wealth, proposed the researchers.
    — Amarachi Orie, CNN, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Magarian thinks the term is still useful, but at the time of its coinage, most of the new players were Americans.
    — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021

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