How to Use paper money in a Sentence

paper money

noun
  • Research already points to paper money as a hot-spot for germs.
    — Emily Bamforth, cleveland, 21 Mar. 2020
  • The parking kiosks the city plans to use will take credit cards and coins, but no paper money.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • There is also a shortage of gas and paper money on the island.
    — Eileen Reslen, Esquire, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Many of us are stubbornly clinging to our paper money habits.
    — Town & Country, 28 Jan. 2019
  • But Veeck would grab a slab of butter, slap it on the paper money, press in a dollar coin.
    — Patrick M. O'Connell, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • That’s not to say that paper money was unavailable before then.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012
  • The small beans, which plump up when cooked, symbolize coins while the greens share the color of paper money.
    — Gwendolyn Wu, Chron, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Looking for more in-depth coverage on what the future holds for paper money?
    — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 31 May 2019
  • Giant man-eating serpents were all very well, but what was this nonsense about paper money?
    — The Economist, 23 May 2020
  • All orders are paid for in advance with a credit card to ensure that no paper money is exchanged.
    — Bob Carlton | [email protected], al, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Now alone in the bank, the robber quickly gathered the paper money in the cashier’s tray and escaped through the front door.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2021
  • What could go wrong did go wrong, and the new paper money was shortly devalued to the point of worthlessness.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 31 Aug. 2020
  • The wallet has multiple slots for credit cards, plus two zip pockets that are great for coins and paper money.
    — Megan Dubois, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Its founders, eager to convert their paper money into real wealth, would have reason to heed them.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2019
  • The beans represent coins, the greens they are served with symbolize paper money, and cornbread is for gold.
    — Vogue, 30 Dec. 2025
  • As was common in those days, the bank had issued its own notes — paper money exchangeable into silver.
    — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 14 July 2022
  • Outerwall also owns Coinstar, a chain of kiosks that coverts loose change into paper money and gift cards.
    — Ryan Faughnder, latimes.com, 1 Dec. 2017
  • Kublai’s daring notion was to make paper money (the chao) the dominant form of currency.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012
  • The tip haul varied wildly, from the sad weeknight pile of dimes and quarters to the weekend wads of actual paper money.
    — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • And remind your wife never to touch paper money on the morning of a visit; almost every bill bears traces of drug residue, which will set off the scanners.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • As some of you may know, Sweden was the world’s first country, in 1666, to issue paper money.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
  • And the Chinese have a history of burning paper money and precious objects for the dead to take to the afterlife.
    — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2023
  • By the late 1700s, paper money was being used throughout Europe.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2022
  • On the other side of the globe, China began using paper money in 1023.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2019
  • Even kids in elementary school now have their own debit cards, and plenty of today's children may never even handle paper money and coins.
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Both the North and the South had needed money to fight and both resorted to issuing paper money, backed by loans from their own side.
    — David McWilliams, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2025
  • The story takes place in the near future, after a virus spread through paper money on Black Friday wipes out millions in New York.
    — Marcus Jones, EW.com, 10 June 2019
  • The first time that paper money was used in China, more than 1000 years ago, it was also met with confusion and widely condemned.
    — Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Trump’s signature also was included, a design element that would differ from other paper money.
    — Bill Barrow, Fortune, 29 May 2026
  • The United States adopts paper money during the Civil War, which causes an inflation.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026

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