How to Use ruble in a Sentence

ruble

noun
  • She gave the driver a ruble.
  • The ruble fell against the U.S. dollar.
  • The stores made gift packets of rubles and sold them as souvenirs.
    — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The ruble is at its weakest point in at least the last 10 years.
    — Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
  • That could trigger a plunge in the ruble and a spike in inflation.
    — Fortune, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Last week the ruble and the Moscow stock market were in free fall.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The ruble has been even weaker in the offshore market this week.
    — Charles Riley, CNN, 9 Mar. 2022
  • That decline has given the ruble a boost as banks don’t need to sell rubles to buy the dollar or yuan.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 6 June 2025
  • Geneticists were fired from their posts and rendered ruble-less.
    — D. Scott Schmid, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The ruble is near a five-year high against the euro and stands at a more-than-two-year high against the dollar.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 18 May 2022
  • Since the war last week, the ruble has plunged to its record low against the US dollar.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The man said he had been promised half a million rubles (a little over $5,000).
    — USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Since the ruble sank, $7 billion has already been withdrawn from the banks.
    — ABC News, 27 Feb. 2022
  • That’s the million-ruble question, but the odds for a breakthrough appear to be slim.
    — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Among the reasons for this is the fall in the ruble against the dollar making exports more profitable.
    — Alistair MacDonald, WSJ, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Economists say the best Russia can hope for this time around is a modest gain in the ruble.
    — Olga Tanas, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2018
  • In Russia relies on oil as the main source of income and the price collapse caused the ruble to crash.
    — Jon Gambrell, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The Russian stock market fell sharply last week, and the ruble plunged in value over the weekend.
    — oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the Russian ruble lost ground against the dollar and the euro.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2021
  • At its peak on March 7, the ruble was trading at 135 to the dollar.
    — David Goldman, CNN, 29 Apr. 2022
  • And the ruble is not on the radar of currency traders, the way that, say, the British pound or Swiss franc is.
    — Neil Irwin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • But admittance to Theater of Fashion shows, which were open to the public, was just a few rubles.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 13 May 2023
  • The ruble has already lost more than 20% of its value against both the dollar and euro since the start of the war in Ukraine.
    — Laura He, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The men at the garage were saying that the long-distance trucking reforms would do more than oblige my father to pay a ruble and a half per kilometer.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Stores in Nome put up signs in Cyrillic and began to accept rubles from Russian tourists, who had started to come.
    — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Since the invasion of Ukraine, the value of the Russian currency, the ruble, has plunged by more than a third to a record low.
    — Stan Choe, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2022
  • The scramble came as the ruble plunged Monday, trading at 104 to the US dollar.
    — Michelle Toh, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, Reichsmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels.
    — Merrill Markoe, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Washington has sanctioned Chinese firms over dual-use goods and warned banks handling ruble transactions.
    — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Venezuela even started accepting payments in Russian rubles, bartered goods or cryptocurrency.
    — Regina Garcia Cano, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026

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