How to Use peso in a Sentence

peso

noun
  • Not even eight pesos to ride the one bus down the one carretera.
    — Diana Spechler, Longreads, 28 Oct. 2017
  • The peso has declined since mid-April as his poll lead widened.
    — Bloomberg, Fortune, 2 July 2018
  • Those who couldn't spare a peso could also rent the little books.
    — Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The peso remains Milei’s Achilles’ heel.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Buy a reloadable card to get around (for 15 pesos, or about 75 cents).
    — Kylie Madry, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
  • After the swap line was announced, the peso rallied.
    — Editorial, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Now a very small one is never less than three pesos – the equivalent of $3.
    — Anastasia Miari, 1843, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Milei has brought down inflation by propping up the value of the peso.
    — Mark Weisbrot, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In the two weeks that followed, the peso tumbled 8% against the dollar.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • But these efforts could not boost reserves rapidly enough to sustain the peso.
    — María Victoria Murillo, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2025
  • But the dollar has still jumped sharply against the Mexican peso.
    — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The peso plunged, forcing the Central Bank to burn through reserves to stem the slide.
    — NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The peso, which had been tied to the dollar, lost nearly 70 percent of its value.
    — Luis Andres Henao, Fox News, 11 May 2018
  • The peso was recently down more than 3% against the dollar to its lowest levels of the year.
    — Ira Iosebashvili, WSJ, 31 May 2019
  • The peso’s 10 percent decline since mid-April is a sign of market nerves.
    — Eric Martin, Bloomberg.com, 27 June 2018
  • Getting right to the point, the Swiss franc is all over the world, while the Argentine peso isn’t.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 19 June 2022
  • My mom gave me money to go to Casa Muñoz, where one peso was worth two and a suit came with an extra pair of pants.
    — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 24 Apr. 2024
  • The shelter charges migrants 100 pesos — roughly $5 — a week for room and board.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2019
  • But the parents could not spare the 20 pesos, or roughly $1, for a bucket shower.
    — Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 8 July 2024
  • The following week, the government cut export taxes for grain traders to raise dollars to shore up the peso.
    — María Victoria Murillo, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Following the Senate’s approval of the new law this past week, the peso dropped to a four-month low against the dollar.
    — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2021
  • The peso jumped by around 5% following the announcement.
    — Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • But it’s underpinned by careful management of the peso, which kept the lid on import prices – while storing up strains.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The economic team had attributed the drop in the peso to political risk.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The Argentine peso slumped 11% against the greenback in June.
    — Saumya Vaishampayan, WSJ, 29 June 2018
  • But his efforts have faltered with voters, prompting a run on Argentina’s peso.
    — Rob Wile, NBC news, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Argentina is still defending the peso.
    — Editorial, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The fund trades the likes of Czech interest rates, the Colombian peso and Nordic power markets.
    — Laurence Fletcher, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The defeat triggered market panic, a peso plunge and more than $1 billion in central bank reserve losses.
    — Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The peso entered a nosedive that threatened to send inflation soaring back up – right before an even bigger electoral test, with midterms now two weeks away.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025

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