How to Use legal tender in a Sentence

legal tender

noun
  • Soon after France adopted the euro, the French franc ceased to be legal tender.
  • There’s just one thing that’s legal tender.
    — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Pennies remain legal tender, but new ones will no longer be made.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The country is the world’s first to make bitcoin legal tender.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Will pennies still be legal tender?
    — George Petras, USA Today, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The bills are no longer printed but are still considered legal tender.
    — Ramon Padilla, USA Today, 29 May 2026
  • In this sense, legal tender today is much more private than bitcoin.
    — Hailey Lennon, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Deadline by which old naira banknotes would stop being legal tender.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 2 Mar. 2023
  • But in George Washington’s time, it was used as legal tender.
    — David Downs, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Despite its demise, the penny will remain legal tender.
    — Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Silver coins are also legal tender, even if their face value is symbolic.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Acts are each recorded on kindness tickets that are legal tender on the Read ’n’ Roll.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The coins, produced by the Australian mint, look like A$1 coins and would be legal tender.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The coins are legal tender, but they are intended to be given to a charitable cause.
    — Dan Ariely, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Utah was the first state to legalize gold and silver as legal tender in 2011.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 7 May 2025
  • Gold bullion coins are produced by government mints and issued with a legal tender face value.
    — Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The court said the old banknotes should continue to be legal tender, alongside new versions, until the end of this year.
    — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Its use as legal tender will begin in 90 days, with the bitcoin-dollar exchange rate set by the market.
    — NBC News, 9 June 2021
  • Gold Rounds Gold rounds are similar to gold bullion coins but are not legal tender and do not have a face value.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Their deposits swelled as people returned the 86% of the currency that was no longer legal tender.
    — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Since adopting bitcoin as legal tender, El Salvador has charted a new course.
    — Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Last year, the country became the first to adopt bitcoin as a legal tender, despite pushback from residents.
    — Isabella Rolz, Washington Post, 6 July 2022
  • The $1 coin could go into circulation as legal tender.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 22 Mar. 2026
  • El Salvador is so far the only country to have adopted Bitcoin as legal tender.
    — Michael McDonald, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2022
  • In a matter of just a few days El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.
    — Diana Barrero Zalles, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • Without this system, the dollar might not be so mighty; instead, states would have their own legal tenders and the power to set interest rates.
    — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Instead, a new currency called the Zimbabwe dollar will now be the sole legal tender in the country.
    — Chris Muronzi, Quartz Africa, 26 June 2019
  • Twenty of those countries use the euro, legal tender for about 350 million people.
    — Paul Lewis, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Pennies will still be in circulation and remain legal tender despite the end of their production.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
  • El Salvador in September became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.
    — Reuters, CNN, 21 Nov. 2021

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