How to Use shilling in a Sentence

shilling

noun
  • Then, in a blink, the shilling became inescapable.
    — Danny Funt, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The cheapest painkillers cost around six cents, or ten Kenyan shillings, for a pack of two.
    — Elizabeth Wells and Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 5 Dec. 2023
  • All this Polymarket shilling is gross.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Third day of planting; sold four bushels of grain—x shillings; quarreled with brother.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The shilling has lost over 37% of its value against the dollar in the past five years.
    — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 27 Apr. 2023
  • After all the lies and all the shilling, Pence and his spokesmen now ask us to spare him.
    — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 22 May 2017
  • King appeared in one video shilling for Burger King.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
  • King appeared in one video shilling for Burger King.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Last year four men were fined 1 million shillings each for trying to traffic thousands of ants.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Last year, four men were fined 1 million shillings each ⁠for trying to traffic thousands of ants.
    — CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The Kenyan shilling inched higher against the dollar soon after the joint statement by the two leaders.
    — Matina Stevis-Gridneff, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
  • So the princess thanked the salesperson and found a pair of those same exact shoes at a second-hand shoppe, lightly worn, for a mere ten shillings.
    — Kerry Elson, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
  • No, his duplicity and shilling were on full display before, during and after his first term.
    — Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The Kenyan shilling has weakened 2 percent against the dollar in that period.
    — Felix Njini, Bloomberg.com, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Chapman increased the fee to two hundred pounds and sent along a check for twelve pounds and ten shillings, to bring the first installment up to an even fifty.
    — Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Painted high on the wall is ‘5/-’, indicating an admission price of five shillings in old money.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The monarch offers this at the altar then it is symbolically bought back for 100 shillings.
    — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 6 May 2023
  • Shilling scored two goals a minute apart in the third quarter to give Boys' Latin its first lead and then insurance at 8-6.
    — Glenn Graham, baltimoresun.com, 25 Apr. 2017
  • The Kenyan shilling has for the longest time been measuring lowly against the US dollar.
    — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Through the war, the well-to-do English reader with two pounds, twelve shilling and six pence to spare could follow news from this faraway land across a series of maps.
    — April White, JSTOR Daily, 17 June 2026
  • This means that the king inherited all of the queen's massive wealth directly—without paying a shilling of inheritance tax.
    — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 6 May 2023
  • After three years, the brothers had received only the first payment of thirty-seven pounds and ten shillings, and hadn’t reached the trade-off point of their respective projects.
    — Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The shilling has slumped 11% against the dollar since the start of the year, ranking it among Africa’s 10 worst-performing currencies this year.
    — David Herbling, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2023
  • De Hales left Basilia, gave up his shop, and sold all of his possessions, including two feather beds, and some pots and utensils worth two shillings and sixpence.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2024
  • According to the New York Times, a farmer could sell one egg for a penny or 12 for a shilling (which equaled 12 pennies).
    — Micah A Leal, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Yet it should be noted that the capital offenses do not include crimes against property; under English law, the theft of a shilling was a hanging offense.
    — Marilynne Robinson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • In the summer of 1600 she was indicted at Middlesex Sessions for stealing two shillings and eleven pence.
    — Longreads, 8 May 2018
  • The Nairobi Stock Exchange fell sharply after the court’s decision, while the Kenyan shilling weakened slightly.
    — The Economist, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The numismatist said the hoard was buried in the late 1530s, when its value was 26 pounds, 5 shillings and 5-1/2 pence.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Parish records noted a young woman named Maria who donated 24 shillings to the church in Ojä, also on Gotland, after a trip to Stockholm.
    — Maggie Lewis Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2024

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