How to Use dinar in a Sentence

dinar

noun
  • Demand for dollars has increased and the cost in Iraqi dinars at some local currency traders has surged.
    — Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The dolls now sit in my office in Paris, along with a supply of Iraqi dinars with Saddam’s face on them.
    — Time, 20 Mar. 2018
  • One-year forward contracts on the dinar were little changed on Thursday, a day after jumping 145 points.
    — Alaa Shahine, Bloomberg.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • With their means, even the most ordinary things are out of reach—even entry to a public park in Amman costs a dinar per person, an unthinkable expense.
    — Lydia Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Partly because of those measures, the Tunisian dinar has been losing value, and inflation is at nearly 8 percent.
    — Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2019
  • Carrots sell for 150 dinars per kilo, peppers 200 dinars and green beans 550 dinars.
    — ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • One-day tickets are currently 50 Jordanian dinar or around $70.
    — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 5 May 2017
  • The Central Bank of Iraq devalued Iraq's dinar by nearly 20% last year to meet spending obligations.
    — Star Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021
  • The Central Bank of Iraq devalued Iraq’s dinar by nearly 20% last year to meet spending obligations.
    — Samya Kullab and Qassim Abdul-Zahra, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Citizens and businesses began exchanging Yugoslav dinars for German marks to secure a more stable store of value.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Among other assistance, Russia printed billions of Libyan dinars for Hifter to pay his troops and co-opt tribes to support his advance, according to analysts.
    — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The switch to the ultra-solid deutsche mark enabled Montenegro to escape from the chronically hyperinflating Yugoslav dinar.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Even under Hussein, bank notes featuring his likeness were not used in Iraqi Kurdistan (the region used earlier versions of the Iraqi dinar instead).
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 16 July 2019
  • The dollar is clobbering other currencies as well, including the Brazilian real, the South Korean won and the Tunisian dinar.
    — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Only Kuwait decided in May 2007 to link the dinar to a basket of currencies as inflation accelerated.
    — Netty Idayu Ismail, Bloomberg.com, 18 Oct. 2020
  • In response to the severe liquidity crisis, the Finance Ministry recently devalued the Iraqi dinar, which is pegged to the dollar, by over 20%.
    — Samya Kullab, Star Tribune, 3 Feb. 2021
  • An older woman, clutching her traditional white haik garment, lamented onion prices going from 45 dinars per kilo to 100 dinars (35 cents to 77 cents) in two days.
    — ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Before then, the Greek drachma held its value for six centuries, the Byzantine solidus for more than seven centuries, the Arab dinar for about four centuries, and the Spanish silver dollar for about four centuries.
    — Nathan Lewis, Forbes, 10 July 2022
  • The first, largest stack had been given in Iraqi dinars to the smuggler who took them from the outskirts of their native city of Slemani across the mountains into the Kermanshah region where a car was waiting to drive them into Tehran.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The average salary in Algeria is 42,800 dinars, the equivalent of approximately $330 according to the official exchange rate, and less than $235 on the informal market.
    — ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Tebboune has also promised an increase in the minimum wage from 20,000 to 24,000 dinars, an increase in retirement pensions of 5 to 10%, and an increase in unemployment benefits for university graduates, from 15,000 to 18,000 dinars.
    — ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026

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