How to Use lira in a Sentence

lira

noun
  • The lira my father had given me were sweaty in my hand.
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The lira has stabilised rather than collapsed.
    — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The lira, which has lost around a third of its value against the dollar this year, fell to another new low.
    — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The lira, the value of which is managed by the central bank, was little changed against the dollar.
    — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Savings have vanished as the lira has lost more than 40 percent of its value this year.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The lira, which had surged back to life after losing half of its dollar value in under four years, is back on the ropes.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Since winning the election, the lira has been in free fall, plummeting by more than 15%.
    — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 June 2023
  • The lira shed nearly half its value against the dollar in 2021.
    — Robert Hart, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The removal of support for the lira caused the currency to plummet, putting more pressure on prices.
    — Ryan Hogg, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The British pound, Turkish lira and Brazilian real, to name a few.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The volatile lira is the worst performing currency in the world, falling 45% this year.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2021
  • The Turkish lira plunged against the dollar Monday, though stocks rallied.
    — Suzan Fraser and Zeynep Bilginsoy, ajc, 29 May 2023
  • That’s sent the lira into a tailspin and accelerated the surge in consumer prices.
    — Time, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The Lebanese lira, now one-tenth of its value just two years ago, seems as worthless as Monopoly money.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • As the lira has sunk, people have watched their salaries lose purchasing power and the value of their savings evaporate.
    — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The crisis wiped more than half the value off the lira and pushed millions of Turkish people closer to poverty.
    — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2022
  • On Thursday, for the fourth month in a row, the central bank cut interest rates — sending the lira to a record low against the dollar.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The Turkish lira, the value of which is tightly managed by the central bank, was stable against the dollar.
    — Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2023
  • But as its coffers run lower and lower, resorting to this tactic to boost the lira becomes more and more difficult.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 30 May 2023
  • Turks have ditched the lira for crypto due to unorthodox economic policies and high inflation.
    — Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 26 June 2023
  • Lies, lust and Italian lira are abound in this Disney+ exclusive Simpsons noir.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 28 May 2026
  • However, the Turkish lira has continued to fall against the dollar.
    — Kelly Kasulis Cho and Victoria Bisset, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Finally, amid high inflation, the surge in crude oil prices deeply affects Turkey's already weak lira.
    — Carmela Chirinos, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2022
  • In that time, the value of the Turkish lira crashed 170% to a record low against the US dollar.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 22 June 2023
  • The central bank has used foreign reserves to prop up the lira; in the past week those reserves plunged into the negative for the first time, Demiralp said.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
  • Now with the falling Lebanese lira, Hassan fears establishment parties have more clout than before.
    — Samya Kullab, Star Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The lira had touched new all-time lows almost daily in recent weeks, including in the minutes before the policy decision.
    — Reuters, CNN, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The Turkish lira was in free fall, making basic goods unaffordable for much of the population.
    — Halil Karaveli, Foreign Affairs, 14 July 2023
  • Turkey’s inflation soared past 80%, the lira collapsed against the dollar and the economy teetered on the edge of catastrophe.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • On top of that, the value of the Turkish lira has been plunging to record lows as inflation rises, which in turn impacts local production costs.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 15 Feb. 2026

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