How to Use rupee in a Sentence

rupee

noun
  • The rupee will be in focus today.
    — Ashutosh Joshi, Bloomberg, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Part of that is down to the stocks themselves, and part due to a weakening rupee.
    — Mike Bird, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Over in India, the rupee is testing all-time lows.
    — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Keep rupees handy for hotel porters and housekeeping, and round up taxi fares.
    — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 22 May 2019
  • Paytm stock is now trading at just 487 rupees (around $6) a share.
    — Diksha Madhok, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In fact, not much more than 100 rupees a person is available.
    — The Economist, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Just how did the wheels come off the Sri Lankan rupee and its economy?
    — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 14 July 2022
  • The rupee is the worst performer among emerging market peers in Asia this half.
    — Anurag Joshi, Bloomberg.com, 28 Nov. 2019
  • The rupee has also come under strain and is trading near an all-time low against the dollar.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 11 May 2026
  • Every year vegetables, fruits and grains worth lakhs of crores of rupees are wasted.
    — Time Staff, Time, 15 Aug. 2017
  • If the gamble works, the central bank will be left to cope with a spurt in inflation and a weak rupee.
    — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Five years ago, the lowest bid came in at 7 rupees, or 11 cents, per kilowatt-hour.
    — Geeta Anand, New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • When these flows run dry, the rupee weakens, the report highlighted.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Amid the turmoil, the Pakistani rupee sank to an all-time low on Thursday.
    — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The first aimed to curb the falling rupee by limiting currency‑hedging positions that banks can take.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Needless to say, the 20-crore-rupee tower turned out to be simply useless.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2021
  • The Sri Lankan rupee has lost about half of its value against the dollar since March of this year.
    — The Editors, National Review, 12 July 2022
  • But millions of rupees and more than three decades later, experts say the river remains a toxic drain.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 1 Feb. 2026
  • These concerns have led to the weakening of the rupee against the dollar, sending it to record lows in recent days.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 13 May 2026
  • The tanking rupee has left importers on the South Asian island unable to pay for goods.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Charging the battery costs 20 rupees (25 cents), one-fourth of the price of filling a gas tank.
    — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Meanwhile the Sri Lankan rupee has lost almost half its value against the dollar over the past two years.
    — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 12 May 2022
  • The dollar is more attractive and stable than the euro, the rupee, the yen, or the renminbi.
    — Ro Khanna, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Its currency, the rupee, plunged to a new low against the dollar and pushed the country to the brink of a financial crisis.
    — New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Jefferies maintains a buy rating on the stock with a target price of 6,140 rupees per share.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Despite these measures, the rupee remains fragile.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 5 June 2026
  • Some of her neighbors rush to the nearest private clinic and pay about 80 rupees or $1 for each treatment.
    — Aishwarya S Iyer, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Hedging rupee weakness offshore is less viable for foreign investors.
    — Pratigya Vajpayee, Bloomberg, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Costly oil will pressure the rupee and push up inflation, Macquarie warns.
    — Alex Gabriel Simon, Bloomberg, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The Catholic nun who devoted her life to giving lined up Arora and his classmates and asked the boys to donate a rupee.
    — Paulina Pineda, AZCentral.com, 27 June 2021

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